Contributors’ Names:
Kris Rodgers
Approach: Add-on
Degree: 2, Awareness of Human Choices
Course Prefix and Title: REA0017
INZ Toolkit Entry Name: Understanding Bias
Created/Updated:
Nov. 23, 2014
Original Course Learning
Outcome/s
(list one per box or leave blank
if adding new outcomes)
Global Learning Outcomes and/or
Global Performance Indicators
(Ss will be able to…)
Connections to Valencia’s Global Competencies
(checkmark items and/or add new ones)
Students will recognize and
understand bias.
Students will recognize and understand different
cultures can have different biases on similar issues.
GLOBAL CITIZEN KNOWLEDGE:
☐ World cultures
☐ World economics
☐ World history
☐ Current events
☐ World geography ☐ OTHER
☐ World religions
☐OTHER
☐ World gov’t/politics
☐ OTHER
☐ World ecology
☐ OTHER
GLOBAL CITIZEN SKILLS:
☐ Interacts with compassion, empathy, respect
☐ Demonstrations cultural sensitivities
☐ Holds opposing views and calmly resolves
conflict
☐ Communicates effectively in another
language
☐ Communicates effectively across cultures
☐ OTHER
☐ OTHER
GLOBAL CITIZEN ATTITUDES:
☐ Articulates sense of identity, self-awareness,
self-acceptance
X Understands personal norms, biases,
expectations for oneself and others
☐ Values and respects diversity
☐ Demonstrates curiosity about the world and
others
Assessment
Method/s
and Tools
Teaching
Strategies,
Student Learning
Activities,
and Assignment
s
*Students
will
complete a
graphic
organizer to
record the
bias
revealed in
each group.
*Students
will provide
their own
bias of
spying as a
summarizin
g activity.
*The
controversial
topic of spying
will be presented
to the students
by reading the
excerpt from
George Orwell’s
“1984”.
*Students will
complete the first
row on the
graphic organizer
together with the
teacher.
*Students will be
placed in random
groups to read
their articles.
*Students will
participate in a
debate about
spying based on
the bias of the
article their group
reads.
*Students will
record the bias
presented in the
article along with
evidence from
the text to
support the bias.
Co-Curricular /
Interdisciplinar
y Activities
Instructional Materials / Resources / URL Links
01 Lesson Plan
02 Graphic Organizer
03 Bias Discussion Rubric
04 Reading 1
LESSON URLs:
Reading 2: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-topol/friends-spying-on-
friends_b_4212534.html
Reading 3: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/11/world/europe/germany-us-spyinginvestigation/
Reading 4: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/20/yes-berlinhas-its-own-spying-scandals-but-dont-expect-germany-to-forgive-the-nsa/
Reading 5:
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/14/world_opposes_us_spying_poll_fin
ds
Reading 6: http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/07/14/global-opposition-to-u-s-surveillance-
and-drones-but-limited-harm-to-americas-image/
Reading 7: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/australians-unfazed-bygovernment-spying-on-other-countries