Ayo welcome back to the weekly review. This week we had a full four days, compared to last weeks meagre two. And you can guess what that means, way more learning!  In a brief summary of the week we did three lectures, picked our greatest Canadian, and started our research. Quite a lot for four days, but I guess I’m still Kickin.

One thing that I learned this week really stood out to me end it was sort of a weird side tangent what made me really curious all the same. During our diversity lecture Ciara and Kaia were talking about how central Canada was affected by regional diversity, and they brought up something called the 2008 recession. I’ve actually heard of this before mostly when my parents were discussing Obama, but I didn’t really know what it was, so I went home to ask my most reliable history source, the man who likes to brag about how he knows eeeeeeeverything, my dad. I asked him about it and he pretty much explained the situation to me in the best way he could. End it was actually a very thorough and very accurate explanation, but I wanted to make sure that I knew that he was completely right, and so I did a little fact checking myself.

I read the history.com article on said topic, it’s a very reputable source so I was pretty sure the information I would be getting was going to be accurate. But I found the article was super wordy and technical and talked about a lot of specific financial terms which I knew nothing about. I knew they weren’t key to knowing what happened in the situation, so I wanted to find another more general and less technical source. So I turned to YouTube. On YouTube I found two really cool videos that explained the situation super well. All three of the sources that I looked at lined up with my dad’s and each other’s explanations, but I think it’s important to know that adults aren’t always completely right, and sometimes you got to do a bit of double checking yourself. When it comes down to it, it’s not always the best idea to just blindly trust your parents. And when it’s as easy as checking some sources you know are reliable, I think it’s always good to know you’re getting the truth. I’ll definitely try to keep doing this in the future, because in a world of social media and news coming at me all the time, I’m probably gonna have to get even better at fact checking and knowing who’s telling me the truth.

I think that was my biggest take away from this week, and these kind of lessons are some of the most important to learn. Critical thinking is an absolutely crucial skill ti have in life, but is one I’m gonna have to develop over time, and with plenty of errors. Can’t wait for next week!

See ya then 🙂