Welcome to our learning resource. We are happy to see people taking part in gaining a deeper understanding of a prominent issue. Have you ever caught yourself making snap judgements about someone, even though you know you are a fair and equitable person? Let us learn a little about why that happens and what we can do to help mitigate these biases.
Why should you care? These biases affect all aspects of our lives. From who we trust, hire or listen to, all the way to how we influence and treat others. If we don’t play our parts in learning to spot and stop biases, we maintain harmful and unfair systems.
What will you learn in this module? How to define implicit bias and stereotype in your own words to start. We want you to walk away with a discovery of your own unconscious associations as well as be able to stop examples of bias around you. There will be a tip sheet at the end that we hope will be of use in all areas of life.
How will you learn?:
Padlet will be our main discussion forum with a dashboard set up specifically for this module:
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Begin!
- Warm Up: brainstorm what you think bias mean; watch A Class Divided– an insightful experiment showing how quickly we can form prejudice
- Explore Yourself: Take Implicit Association Test (IAT) online
- It is private and helps us to see our own hidden associations
- https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
3. Real Life Scenarios: Read short scenarios about bias in classrooms or hiring
- Analyze and discuss via Padlet
4. Make a Change: Read the tip sheet provided. These are science based ways to break bias habits. Choose the strategies that you believe you could actually use. Feel free to share on discussion board.
5. Show What you Know! Take the post module quiz
Thank You!