Balance Your Brain

A webinar facilitated by Jessi McCarthy, Freedom Forum, First Amendment Educational Content Manager.

Have you considered how your confirmation bias reinforces your existing beliefs? How can it trap you in an echo chamber and prevent you from considering other evidence and points of view? What about confirmation bias of media producers — news reporters, bloggers, social media influencers, and other user-generated content? How does their confirmation bias affect the news and information we read, watch and listen to in the digital culture? What can we do to counter confirmation bias?

This event is not open to the public.

Keeping It Real: Exploring Non-Traditional Avenues for Reporting Truth and Battling Misinformation

During the fall workshop, we’ll hear from several speakers who are using non-traditional platforms or approaches to disseminate important, high-quality news amidst a sea of misinformation. In addition to telling about their journeys, speakers will share their professional standards, how they prove their credibility to their audiences and how they are using their channels to fight back against misinformation. All professional communicators can learn from these practices.

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Free online Python class for librarians and teens

Blissful Coding Club provides after school enrichment STEM classes to students in grades 2-12. We provide free virtual classes in Python, App Development, Cybersecurity, etc. At this event, we will give a sample lesson of our beginner Python class that librarians can follow and take it back to their students in teen departments.

Published in ALA’s book, Power Lines: Connecting with Teens in Urban Communities Through Media Literacy, we are highlighted as a top teen media literacy program in urban libraries.

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