Moving Past Confirmation Bias

Avoiding Confirmation Bias in Searches
In this section of his book, Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers, Mike Caulfield offers tips on avoiding confirmation bias when performing online searches.
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Teaching about Confirmation Bias Using the Beatles
Published on the Psychology Teacher Network section of the APA's site, this lesson plan makes use of the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy to help students understand what confirmation bias entails. Students examine the "evidence" from different Beatles albums as they explore how beliefs can skew our interpretation of facts. Students are also encouraged to consider ways in which they may fall prey to confirmation bias in their day-to-day lives.
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Lesson on Confirmation and Other Biases
This teaching resources is presented by the Facing History and Ourselves website.
The lesson is the third of 11 in the "Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age" series.
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Lesson Plan: Filter Bubbles | The Digital Writing & Research Lab
Students learn what filter bubbles are and how to break out of them by seeking out sources offering different perspectives.
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Blue Feed, Red Feed | Washington Post
Left-leaning and right-leaning articles posted on Facebook are shown in a side-by-side to illustrate the divide between filter bubbles in social media. N.B. the page, cited in the Blue Feed Red Feed Lesson Plan, is updated hourly.

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Lesson on How Journalists Minimize Bias
In this lesson students learn about the standards of quality journalism which help minimize biases, about how biases impact the way people perceive the world, and how to identify the challenges inherent in reporting objectively.
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Confronting Confirmation Bias | Grades 6-12
In this lesson, students read and discuss an article about confirmation bias. Next, they read two articles on school start times written from opposing viewpoints. They consider their own opinion of the topic, and examine their response to each article, reflecting on their own tendency to confirmation bias.
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Bias and Skepticism: How Far Is Too Far? | Teaching Tolerance
From a five-part series on how to know, this lesson explores how to fine-tune one's skepticism in approaching different biases, to recognize that the presence of some bias in an argument does not necessarily warrant its dismissal, but can be seen as an invitation to analyze and sift through it with discernment.
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The Bubble | SNL
SNL's humorous take on filter bubbles offers a useful way to underscore to students the definition of a filter bubble.
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