Implicit Bias Check and TED Talks from Posts

Below are some of the links which we discussed from tonights class about additional resources:   Implicit Bias Check https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/   Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack http://www.deanza.edu/faculty/lewisjulie/White%20Priviledge%20Unpacking%20the%20Invisible%20Knapsack.pdf   How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them – Vernā Myers   The Danger of a Single Story – Chimamanda Ngozi   

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Cultivating Curiosity

The author W. Gardner Campbell seems to be critiquing the arcane strategies our education uses to “cut costs and increase access”.  He disparages “click-counts” and login tracking for being impersonal means for measuring student involvement and comprehension.  In a larger classroom environment, these can be efficient tools for preventing students from slipping under the radar. […]

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The trouble with autopilot: The separation between conscious and subconscious

In this segment, Shankar Vendantam, author of “The Hidden Brain” discusses the role the human subconscious plays in cultural stereotypes. Vendantam suggests that negative associations with certain races, genders and sexual preferences begin when we are very young.  Not surprisingly, this is thought to be a result of parenting or upbringing, not genetic predisposition. Our subconscious […]

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What is bias?

How many times do we make decisions based on a certain preference we have implicitly cultivated without actually realizing it. For example imagine you go to Starbucks for a coffee, we see 3-4 different persons of different racial backgrounds serving coffee. We choose one of them and go ahead with the order. How did we […]

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