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• I Never Thought of It That Way

  How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

  Guzmán, Mónica (Journalist),

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• Seek

  How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World

  Shigeoka, Scott,

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• How to Think

  a Survival Guide for a World at Odds

  Jacobs, Alan, 1958-

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• Can Social Media Be 'Fixed'?

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  The Newseum Ed website is dedicated to critical thinking about what we see in the news and on social media. This is an article from 2018 when the leaders of Google and Facebook testified before Congress.

• 12 Common Biases That Affect How We Make Everyday Decisions | Psychology Today

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  Any way you look at it, we are all biased.

• News Literacy Project

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• Newseum Ed - Fact Finder Guide

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  A free membership lets you review tools and techniques for evaluating news stories and social media posts.

• Think for Yourself

  the Ultimate Guide to Critical Thinking in An Age of Information Overload

  Debbink, Andrea

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• A Field Guide to Lies

  Critical Thinking in the Information Age

  Levitin, Daniel J.

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• Debunk It!

  How to Stay Sane in a World of Misinformation

  Grant, John, 1949-

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• Bullspotting

  Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation

  Collins, Loren, 1978-

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• Thinking, Fast and Slow

  Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-2024,

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• The Art of Logic in An Illogical World

  Cheng, Eugenia

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• Your Bias is...

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  Get to know your biases with a School of Thought website recommended by Dr. Christopher Dwyer.

• Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies

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  A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. Logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. Don't be fooled! This website from The School of Thought has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memory Machinery, Cognitive Biases, and Intuitive Traps

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  Check out this University of South Florida presentation to learn how we can apply critical thinking techniques to be more informed about what we're seeing and hearing in the news and social media.

• What To Do If Your Family Or Friends Shares Misinformation On Facebook

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  By Brittany Wong 09/22/2020 05:09pm EDT | Updated October 27, 2020 "...According to a 2017 study by researchers from NYU and Stanford, social media plays a larger role in bringing people to fake news sites than it plays in bringing them to real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Know how to spot a conspiracy theory - The News Literacy Project

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• Civic Online Reasoning (COR)

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  Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

• AllSides.com - Facts and Fact Checking

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  Fact checks and fact checkers can still display media bias. Some might even turn out to be fake news, as we saw when President Trump inquired about using disinfectant as a possible coronavirus treatment. In the face of this "infodemic," AllSides is…Read moreRead more of this annotation