Recent Media Featuring Erik Bean
How to find the truth in a sea of information
At a glance
- Information overload (getting too much information too fast) can cause stress, exhaustion and burnout.
- Cognitive biases, or mental shortcuts used to simplify information processing, can distort judgment and result in misinterpreting highly biased information as accurate.
Bias is all around you with Erik Bean
At a glance
- On today's episode: Erik Bean is an educational technology professional, author, researcher, and administrator who is widely recognized for leadership to improve pedagogy and andragogy in higher and secondary (K-12) educational markets.
- Today, we talk with Erik about his new book Bias is All Around You and how to help the rising generation decipher good information from bad information.
Simple Questions To Ask Kids When They Share 'News' They Saw Online: Huffington Post
At a glance
- Media literacy is all about building critical thinking skills and learning to ask questions.
Art Silverblatt, Ph.D. Noted Media Literacy Scholar
Has Endorsed Bias Is All Around You
March 14, 2023
"In his excellent Media Literacy text, Bias is All Around You, Erik Bean addresses the issue of transparency in journalistic efforts and social media posts by offering a systematic approach to the detection of bias in virtually any medium."
Author of numerous books on media literacy
including Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages and Genre Studies in Mass Media: A Handbook
Close Encounters of the Truth Kind
Via Media Literacy Now's Website
March 6, 2023
Comments in Huffington Post: Feb. 10, 2023
Simple Questions To Ask Kids When They Share 'News' They Saw Online
Podcasts
The Chee-Tash Podcast by Chris Ciric
Episode #6 with Erik Bean, Ed.D., author of "Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories"
Contact: ProfBean@gmail.com
Nov. 28, 2022: Podcast #6
Bias Is All Around You... In the News! 2022
August 2022: Author Erik Bean: A 2022 Henry Ford Innovation Nation 1st Place Teacher Award Recipient
For Media Literacy Studies Tied to Bias Is All Around You Book
Podcasts
May 5, 2022: Fight Your Bias (with Erik Bean and Gail Gorske)
Grandpa & Chill
Misinformation is everywhere, and there's no signs that it'll be slowing down any time soon. So how do we navigate the news and social media without falling prey to bad actors in our media?
Erik Bean wrote Bias is All Around You, a guide to identifying bias in ourselves and in our everyday lives, so we can learn to evaluate our sources and fight against misinformation.
Erik is joined by Gail Gorske, the incredible artist who brought Erik's ideas and advice to life with beautiful pop-out paper illustrations.
Contact: ProfBean@gmail.com
Video Podcast
Oct. 31, 2021: Erik Bean discusses Bias Is All Around You on The Common Bridge Podcast
Hosted by Richard Helppie
Rich talks with Professor Erik Bean about his new book, Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories which is about how to authenticate any form of information for possible bias before its used and/or shared either online, or even in normal conversation.
Richard Helppie's Common Bridge Podcast:
Contact: ProfBean@gmail.com
Bias Is All Around You... In the News!
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Bias Is All Around You: A 2021 Publisher's Weekly:
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Contact: ProfBean@gmail.com