Confirmation Bias and Information Literacy
FYS 100
Professor Jennifer Sias
Agenda
Information Literacy
Confirmation Bias
This American Life - Episode: 621 Fear
and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
What is Information Literacy?
Let's review your reading homework. Prepare index
cards like you did for Metacognitive Thinking. You're
buiding your very own deck of cards!
Information Literacy
Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration
https://libguides.marshall.edu/c.php?g=389273&p=264138
2
A Video Explanation
blueeyedgirl158. “What Is Information
Literacy?” Modern Librarian Memoirs, YouTube, 2 Nov.
2017,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe6xBibOL4
.
Confirmation Bias
Now, let's get back to the concept of Confirmation Bias.
We briefly discussed it at the end of our last class and
watched the short TED video on filter bubbles and how
search engines and social media use algorithms to advance
confirmation bias.
To review, what is
confirmation
bias
?
Why you think you’re right even
if you’re wrong
Let's explore the concept a little more by watching the
TED talk "Why You Think You're Right Even if You're
Wrong."
https://www.ted.com/talks/julia_galef_why_you_think
_you_re_right_even_if_you_re_wrong
More on elements of confirmation
bias
A library
guide!
http://libguides.reynolds.edu/fakenews/bias
Our discussion of
confirmation bias
and its
antidote,
information
literacy
, has been our way of
preparing for the next two stories
we will analyze.
This American Life
Episode: 621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-
archives/episode/621/fear-and-loathing-in-homer-
and-rockville
Take notes as you listen. Here are some questions to
guide your listening and note taking:
1.
What issue(s) did the towns of Homer and
Rockville grapple with?
2.
How did those issues come up in each
town? Why?
Confirmation bias and information literacy concepts through discussions, TED talks, videos, and library guides. Discover how biases may influence information consumption and learn strategies to enhance critical thinking and research skills.
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FYS 100 Professor Jennifer Sias
Agenda Information Literacy Confirmation Bias This American Life - Episode: 621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
What is Information Literacy? Let's review your reading homework. Prepare index cards like you did for Metacognitive Thinking. You're buiding your very own deck of cards!
Information Literacy Authority is Constructed and Contextual Information Creation as a Process Information Has Value Research as Inquiry Scholarship as Conversation Searching as Strategic Exploration https://libguides.marshall.edu/c.php?g=389273&p=264138 2
A Video Explanation blueeyedgirl158. What Is Information Literacy? Modern Librarian Memoirs, YouTube, 2 Nov. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe6xBibOL4.
Confirmation Bias Now, let's get back to the concept of Confirmation Bias. We briefly discussed it at the end of our last class and watched the short TED video on filter bubbles and how search engines and social media use algorithms to advance confirmation bias. To review, what is confirmation bias?
Why you think youre right even if you re wrong Let's explore the concept a little more by watching the TED talk "Why You Think You're Right Even if You're Wrong." https://www.ted.com/talks/julia_galef_why_you_think _you_re_right_even_if_you_re_wrong
More on elements of confirmation bias A library guide!http://libguides.reynolds.edu/fakenews/bias
Our discussion of confirmation bias and its antidote, information literacy, has been our way of preparing for the next two stories we will analyze.
This American Life Episode: 621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio- archives/episode/621/fear-and-loathing-in-homer- and-rockville Take notes as you listen. Here are some questions to guide your listening and note taking: 1. What issue(s) did the towns of Homer and Rockville grapple with? 2. How did those issues come up in each town? Why?
