Lesson 3
“If technology is purely market-driven and we don’t focus innovation on the big inequities, then we could have amazing inventions that leave the world even more divided.”
– Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-founder
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Fact Checking Sources
Fact checking sources are for fact checks. If you click on each icon, you can link to the website and try to do some fact checks!
Confirmation Bias
It is important to understand and recognize the existence of confirmation bias. Most of the information has certain types of confirmation bias. And some fact checking sources have bias as well. The following photo shows the different categories of media bias.
(Photo Credit: AllSides)
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Cutter, Lisa. “Media Literacy - The Power (and Responsibility) of Information.” TEDXTalks, Dec. 2019, www.ted.com/talks/lisa_cutter_media_literacy_the_power_and_responsibility_of_information.
Gasiorek, Jessica. “Message processing: the science of creating understanding.” UH Pressbooks The University of Hawaiʻi pressbooks, pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/messageprocessing/front-matter/table-of-contents/.
“Literacy.” UNESCO, en.unesco.org/themes/literacy.
“Media Literacy Definition.” National Association for Media Literacy Education, namle.net/resources/media-literacy-defined/.
“The Economic & Social Cost of Illiteracy a White Paper by the World Literacy Fountation.” WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION, worldliteracyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/TheEconomicSocialCostofIlliteracy-2.pdf.
Quijada, Andrea. “Creating critical thinkers through media literacy: Andrea Quijada at TEDxABQED.” TEDXTalks, 20 Feb. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHAApvHZ6XE.
“What Is a Media Effect?” us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-assets/45690_book_item_45690.pdf