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Part One

THE MORE YOU KNOW (THE LESS YOU KNOW) - if you're a critical thinker, you know you gotta watch the story below
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Hot Takes (From Your Inquiry Media)

are we loving nature to death?

We’re featuring two prominent voices from your Inquiry Media that have different takes on the question you’ve been exploring. Listen to these podcasts and really try to understand and empathize with the different perspectives.

Louis-René Sénéchal

Podcasts
Parks Canada is the steward of some of Canada’s wildest and most spectacular landscapes. But rarely do we get to pull back the curtain...
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Rick Antonson

Podcasts
Ever travel to Timbuktu for a haircut? Have you been to the top of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey? Rick Antonson has. The former...
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What do you think?

  • Which perspective resonates with you? One, both or none? Why?
  • Do you understand the perspective you disagree with?
  • What is the bias of each expert? How are you able to identify that bias?
  • Do you understand that everyone has a bias? Is bias always a bad thing?

Activity

  • Get together in small groups and discuss the entire Inquiry Media story, and the featured podcasts. Do you think we're loving nature to death? Is there a solution to this issue or even a way forward? What voices in the story did you agree with? Who did you disagree with and why? If there are different perspectives within your group, try to understand them, while also working to identify the commonalities between your perspectives.

Part Two

Your teacher will direct you to the activities below that will help you with your project.

Bias in Visual Stories

How do you identify artistic bias or even bias in the media? Why is it important to understand? We can help!

Find out!

Self-Reflection

Take the time to re-reflect on your values and upbringing in order to better understand your biases and how they influence your opinions.

Reflect

Bias Analysis

Is your final project being influenced by your bias? Is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing? Time to analyze your project for blind spots.

Go!

Find Common Ground

Compare two well-known visual stories - one you like and one you don't - and work to find the commonalities.

Begin

The Art of Disagreeing

Is it possible to disagree respectfully? Absolutely! Learn and practice how to disagree without being disagreeable.

Learn more

Fake News

What is fake news? How to determine a reliable source of information? We'll help you separate fact from fiction.

So fake

Part Three

Featured Hot Take

Separating fact from opinion and weighing the validity of competing facts can be overwhelming. Don’t be overwhelmed! Dawna Friesen – an award-winning journalist and the anchor of Global National – wants to help.
 
We’re featuring this podcast across all five Nature Labs subjects. You might not like every course you take in school, but they are all related. By listening to this podcast, hopefully you’ll better understand why.
  • Have we forgotten the value of mainstream media or has mainstream media lost its values?
  • How important is it to think critically about the information we consume? Can the media help us be better critical thinkers?
  • Can good questions overcome bias or will bias always filter through in the questions we ask?
  • Are we equipped to separate good research from fake news if how we see the world is so clearly coloured by our biases?
More on Dawna Friesen

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In the perpetual quest for the secret to happiness, scientists butted heads until they...

Bias: Centre Source: The Globe and Mail File Type: Essay/Research Overview: In the perpetual quest for the secret to happiness, scientists butted heads until they found an answer Web Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-scientists-pursuit-of-happiness-debate/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Morning%20Update&utm_content=2024-10-11_6&utm_term=Morning%20Update%3A%20Playing%20nice%20this%20Thanksgiving&utm_campaign=newsletter&cu_id=bZnKMoBYEqn1yUkTzfoe4%2BPSvjxFhJPIuOC0qZ57Bs0%3D

Great Questions Lead to Great Design – A Guide to the Design Thinking Process

Great Questions Lead to Great Design – A Guide to the Design Thinking Process Bias: Centre Right Sub-Category: Interviews Source: Design (Business) File Type: Guide Overview: Asking the better question gets the better answer Web...

Don’t Fall In Love With Your First Ideas

Don't Fall In Love With Your First Ideas Sub-Category: Prototyping Source: Strategyzer File Type: Resource Overview: Why it's important to not fall in love with your first idea Web Link: https://www.strategyzer.com/blog/posts/2014/7/31/dont-fall-in-love-with-your-first-idea

Why the news is not the truth

Why the news is not the truth Bias: Centre Right Sub-Category: Fact vs Opinion Source: Harvard Business Review File Type: Essay/Analysis Overview: Why the News Is Not the Truth Web Link: https://hbr.org/1995/05/why-the-news-is-not-the-truth

Audiences value trust components differently depending on the news source and topic

Audiences value trust components differently depending on the news source and topic Sub-Category: Journalism Source: American Press Institute File Type: Report Overview: Trust in journalism varies by topic and source Web Link: https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/news-trust-source-topic/

Featured Podcasts

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Danijela Puric-Mladenovic

When we think about forests, we think about towering ancient trees like those found on Canada’s west coast. What we don’t often think about...

Amanda Gierling

Kendra Neef

Elliott Ingles

Neil Fletcher

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Chapters

Chapter One

The System of Things

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Chapter Five

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Chapter Nine

Own Your Hypocrisy

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Chapter Two

The Context of It All

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Chapter Six

Your Turn

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Chapter Ten

Keep Going

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Chapter Three

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

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Chapter Seven

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Chapter Eleven

One Last Thing

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Chapter Four

Hard Stuff is Hard

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Chapter Eight

Be Better

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Chapter Twelve

The End (of the Beginning)

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