Join Dr. Erik Bean, Ed.D., in safeguarding your mental health and promoting civil discourse in these turbulent times. Learn methods for weeding out bias in the media and all published information.
Information can outsmart anyone regardless of their education and status. Dr. Erik Bean, Ed.D., author of Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories, will lead an introspective one-hour workshop where you will learn about 7 sources of potential biases and how to spot them. Gain critical thinking skills you can apply daily when you are presented with false narratives, algorithms, and click bait in today’s media environment. Leave the workshop invigorated and motivated to safeguard your mental health and that of those around you. Dr. Bean is recipient of the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards silver medallion in the young adult non-fiction category and also received the 2022 Henry Ford Innovation Nation Top Teacher award for his studies on information bias.
The historical downtown library on Michigan Ave. is our oldest branch. It has two meeting rooms and an outdoor plaza.
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