Instructional Video4:08
Curated Video

Editorial Bias

12th - Higher Ed
UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes how the editor plays a key, and often overlooked role, in the process of bringing a translated work of literature to the public.
Instructional Video4:39
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Kara Alaimo - Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls

Higher Ed
Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the author of Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls and How We Can Take It Back. She has written opinion and analysis pieces...
Instructional Video4:59
Big Think

How news feed algorithms supercharge confirmation bias | Eli Pariser

6th - 11th
The most powerful editors in the world? Algorithms. - According to a Pew Research poll, 45% of U.S. adults get at least some of their news from Facebook, with half of that amount using Facebook as their only news outlet. - Algorithms on...
Instructional Video4:05
Big Think

A short history of knowledge, from feudalism to the Internet | Alice Dreger

6th - 11th
Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today. The enlightenment period was a big boon to the...
Instructional Video3:06
Big Think

Prejudices Are Harder to Shake Than You Think, with Heidi Grant Halvorson

6th - 11th
Can stereotypes be useful? Sometimes they can be, even though a lot of the time they're not. Psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of No One Understands You And What To Do About
Instructional Video1:48
C-SPAN

On This Day: Publication of The Feminine Mystique

9th - Higher Ed Standards
When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, it was considered a manifesto for women who suffered from the problem that has no name. Clips from authors and historians, as well as the writer herself, help class members consider the...
Instructional Video0:44
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PBS

Hemingway and Gender Identity

11th - 12th Standards
After watching a short video clip from the documentary Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, learners read an article by Ursula Le Guin about gender roles and sexuality. Scholars then consider how an author's concept of gender roles is...
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Determine an Author's Bias

8th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn to determine the author's bias by asking, "What information is left out and why?" [8:48]