Cutting
the
CRAAP
Jonathan Pickens
Today's Agenda
- Lewontin Discussion
- Media literacy chat
- Worksheet 3 CRAAP
Quick blog notes:
Pics
extra tag
Next Class
- Blog posts due for:
- Bernard J Slawomirski
- Diana M Kennedy
- Israel A Tochimani
- Kevin J Mendez
Feb 28th
- Presentation from:
- Cierra J Hernandez
- Henny Lipschutz
- Jasmine Wu
- Maral Mukimova
- Victoria Aiello
Feb 25th!
Prenatal Development
- Danielle L Duchan
- Fariyal Chowdhury
- Jasleen K Atwal
- Shoshana R Jeselsohn
Media Litteracy
"Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms."
*Essential to the group project
- What makes something 'true'?
- Authority?
- Consensus?
- Reason?
- Reflective? (subjective)
- What do you do already to check if news "real"?
- How do you identify bias?
Good faith biases
Good-faith: Honest and sincere intention to find truth with you.
- Coverage bias & Curation bias
- Incomplete list of missing data sets
- Concision Bias
- False Balance
- Significance Bias
Bad-faith bias
- $$$ and self-interest
- Lie by omission
- Narrative/Agenda bias
- Misrepresentation
- Moving the goal post
- whataboutism
- Straw Man argument
- Steel Man argument
- Fabricated information
Good/Bad faith can be difficult to distinguish
CRAAP test
Helps you find sources worth citing, not totally unbiased sources
- Currency
- Relevance
- Authority
- Accuracy
- Purpose
Problematization
- Who is making this statement?
- For whom is it intended?
- Why is this statement being made here, now?
- Whom does this statement benefit?
- Whom does it harm?
Worksheet 3
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In this article, what developmental theory (or theories) seem to underlie the author’s perspective on development? What makes you think this?
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Who is the author and who is the intended audience?
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If the authors claims are accurate, which groups are most impacted? How? Is this impact positive or negative?
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Do you agree with the author’s perspective on the issue? Why or why not?
