Details — Teaching Tidbits: Teaching in Post-Truth Times — December 12
| Date: 12/12 | Time: 12:15 pm |
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The next Teaching Tidbits Brown Bag is Monday, December 12, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the faculty lounge in the Tippie Alumni Center (garden level entrance on the south side of the building, be sure to bring Allegheny ID to enter). For this last meeting of the fall semester, we will be discussing teaching in post-truth times. Specifically we will consider recent studies showing how poorly students do in identifying fake news, the backfire effect (people believe inaccurate information even more when it is pointed out to them), and why people “fly from facts.” For our conversation, we will focus on the following pieces: Students’ dismaying ability to tell fake from real news, When facts make us dumber , and Why we fly from facts.
Additional sources that may be of interest on this topic include: Is post truth a new concept?, How to self-check news, and Why we believe what we read on the Internet.