Bias is all around you with Erik Bean

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.

Topics:

02:40 What is bias?

05:45 How to help students search for good information and sources of partiality

12:30 Bias and passion

16:30 Outliers and information

18:30 The consequences of using bad information

25:00 Civics in education

27:00 Subjects to subjectivity

For more information about Erik Bean’s work on bias, check out his new book, Bias is All Around You now available for purchase on Amazon.