1. I choose to explore the topic of bias even further. As a social studies teacher, we definitely come across the word and use of bias quite often in our curriculum, daily/weekly lessons, and when preparing for the Regents Exam. In our new formatted exam, the Short Essay Question or SEQ explores the reliability of the documents in question. They ask the students to analyze one of the documents (Document #1 or Document #2) and to explain how the audience, or purpose, or BIAS, or POV affects the document's use as a reliable source of evidence. It's a great tool and skill for the students to have, to be able to read and analyze a document, and to be able to explain how the author's bias affects the reliability of the document (does it make it reliable or unreliable)... So hopefully teaching this, along with the Algorithm Bias that we see online with YouTube's recommendations (which drive 70% of what we watch) and Political Bias in ChatGPT, we can continue to better educate our students to be able to spot these potential biases in their work and research both in school and at home. Once again, continuing to teach and encourage digital citizenship and literacy skills to our students in our social studies classrooms.
