Confronting Confirmation Bias: Giving Truth a Fighting Chance in the Information Age

Confronting Confirmation Bias: Giving Truth a Fighting Chance in the Information Age

  1. Social Education
  2. Social Education October 2016
  3. Confronting Confirmation Bias: Giving Truth a Fighting Chance in the Information Age

Authors:

Alan C. Miller

Page:276

Journal Issue:

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Social Education October 2016

At a time when algorithms shape and filter our newsfeeds, teaching students news literacy—how to differentiate credible information from misinformation—has taken on unprecedented importance.