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Friday, April 6 • 1:30pm - 2:15pm
Cultivating Critical Thinking in an Age of “Fake News”

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This session provides a forum to discuss the increasing challenges we all face in finding, evaluating, and synthesizing news from various sources, as well as techniques to address these challenges with community college students. What makes information reliable? How do we tell fact from fiction? What does it mean to be informed? Are there objective facts, and how do we find them? We will showcase the work we have initiated to engage students in frank, realistic discussions about media as part of the introductory sociology curriculum, and also solicit ideas and insights from session participants.
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Tim Dolan

Librarian, Greenfield Community College
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Linda McCarthy

Professor of Sociology, Greenfield Community College
Linda joined Greenfield Community College in 2004. Along with teaching Principles of Sociology every semester (and online), she also teaches Social Inequality (face-to-face and online), Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Human Sexuality, and Sociology of the Family. Linda earned her... Read More →

Friday April 6, 2018 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT
H-204 Hawthorne Hall
  Innovations in Teaching Learning & Technology, Workshop

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