Being able to critically reflect is an important component to being an effective stakeholder in the world. One component of critical reflection is recognizing and addressing biases. While this is not easy or might not feel “good”, we all have biases, and it is important to confront them. I have participated in this process myself, and it was incredibly helpful in guiding me to better understand my own behaviors. Researchers from Harvard worked for several years to make a tool available to the public. We will utilize the Project Implicit tool as a springboard for our critical reflection.
How:
For this assignment, you will first read the article “Understanding Implicit Bias” After you read the article, you will access the Project Implicit website and choose 3 different Implicit Association Tests (IAT). After you have read the article and completed 3 tests, you will write a reflection to submit on Blackboard. Reflections will not be made public and will be for my eyes only.
Your written reflection should contain three parts:
1) reflection over the article
2) reflection over your IAT results
3) how implicit bias is exposed in Dear Martin by Nic Stone
1) Read the article by the Ohio State University Kirwan Institute, “Understanding Implicit Bias”. During the reading, I suggest you annotate the article. This will help you later process your thoughts for the reflection. After reading the article, I suggest you do some freewriting for 5 minutes to capture your initial thoughts. The process of freewriting involves writing everything down as quickly as possible WITHOUT worrying about grammar, punctuation, or organization. You are basically allowing your stream of consciousness to take over.