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- 1. IB WORKSHOP
- 2. Key Points • Learning Outcomes • Basics of information analysis • Curated Content – Short navigation activity • Analyzing Fake News • Basics of cognitive bias in research – Compare & Contrast Activity • Availability Bias – Quiz • Conclusion
- 3. Learning Outcomes • The learner will be able to list related curated content and describe why that is valuable in academic research. • The learner will be able to list the key points in picking out fake news. • The learner will be able to describe the basics of cognitive bias and availability bias in academic research.
- 4. • Scholarly Vs. Non-Scholarly • Peer-Reviewed • Authoritative Open web resources –.edu, .gov, and certain Think-Tanks Information Analysis
- 5. • JSTOR • Academic Search Complete • DOAJ • Google Scholar Subject Specific Resources
- 6. • Chase footnotes! • Boolean (Give Example) • Government Information – Census.gov – Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook – USA.gov – GPO.gov • Think-Tanks (Some) – RAND – Brookings Open web research
- 7. Fake News • Consider source. • Read beyond headlines. • Check Authors credentials. • Supporting sources. • Check the dates. • Is it satire? • Check your biases. • Ask experts?
- 8. Cognitive Bias Confirmation Bias • Is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. • This is biological and everyone does it, so the be careful to check your biases.
- 12. Activity • Take 10 minutes • Search for global warming or nuclear power. – Find a peer reviewed artcile • Think-Pair-Share • Which article could you use? Which could you not? Why?
- 13. Availability Cascade • The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. – As in, recent information or information that cascades in media weighs heavier in recall. – I.E. Terrorism, The media usually focuses on violent or extreme cases, which are more readily available in the public's mind. – So this will impact individuals understanding of information.
- 15. Conclusion • Key Points: – Follow the Fake News Outline – Scholarly VS Non-Scholarly i.e. authority of information – Check your Biases • Confirmation Bias • Availability Cascade
- 16. Contact Information • Seth M. Porter, MA, MLIS • Co-Coordinator of Library Instruction • Social Sciences Librarian • Georgia Institute of Technology • seth.porter@library.gatech.edu • 404-894-1392
Editor's Notes
- This module should serve as a guide. Please adapt content for GT1000 session and learning outcomes, but follow the spirit and use similar exercises.
- In the short time we have it will be hard to nail everything. So it will be important to focus on Fake News skills, curated content, and cognitive biases in research.
- Have them navigate to a relevant database an pull a research related article and differences.
- The resources are subject specific. This is just an example for the social science. Please adapt by need, but remember less is more.
- The resources are subject specific. This is just an example for the social science. Please adapt by need, but remember less is more, but do keep some open access resources.
- Toolkit. This is just the basics, please adopt to content. Also, instructor could use show one example of a good article and a bad article and point out why.
- Individuals make decisions and create narratives that do not reflect the truth, but do reflect the individual’s truth. This is a major issue in information literacy but an important one to tackle. Kahneman (2012) calls this, What you See is All There is (WYSIATI). Which states that a mind will see a story, or a set of facts and convince itself that it is true. Basically, it will create a narrative of the knowns and ignore unknowns. Librarians teaching learners how to use information need to be aware of the phenomena. Often the learner is not actively choosing information that is of poor quality, or that fits their chosen argument. They are doing so because they truly believe that this information is the best fit for the chosen venue
- Many republicans disregard global warming as a fraud because of this. But ignore the data because it doesn’t confirm their beliefs.
- Democrats do the same thing with the safety of nuclear power and point to two high profile issues, even though this is minimal compared to car crashes oil etc But ignore the data because it doesn’t confirm their beliefs.
- Try to choose a subject related article for this. Also, don’t choose a wildly crazy bad article, but something more subtle.
- This served us well on the plains of Africa, but doesn’t now.