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  • A lone figure walks through a vast blue maze with a single chamber glowing pink.
    • FEATURED LESSON PLAN •
    Alexandria Chisholm

    Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors. Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate.

  • A long row of well-worn paperback books balanced along a brick window ledge.
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    Elisa Acosta

    Algorithms increasingly shape modern life and can perpetuate bias and discrimination. In pairs, students analyzed the results from Google Image searches and Google Autocomplete suggestions.

  • Journals and magazines lined up on a narrow wooden shelf in warm light.
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    Ryer Banta

    For this activity students are asked to imagine that they are organizing a party, specifically a scholarly party. Groups are given starting article that they evaluate and use as a jumping off point for choosing a theme.

  • The curved balcony stacks of a round library filled with colourful book spines.
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    Carolyn Caffrey

    This is part of an introductory first-year class to the university where students are introduced to the library and asked to think critically about how information is organized using the framework of critical cataloging.


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    Breaking the Code: Understanding Algorithmic Bias

    Algorithms are everywhere, and they have increasing power over what we consume (Amazon, Netflix, TikTok), who we date (“the apps”), and how we understand the world (Google, ChatGPT). So, what are algorithms, and how did they become so powerful? Who are the humans that create them, and why does it matter?

    In this workshop, we will explore how algorithms can perpetuate bias and discrimination, and discuss some preventive strategies. It is open to learners of all backgrounds and experience.

    Hidden Layer: Intellectual Privacy and Generative AI

    The Hidden Layer Workshop introduces key generative AI (genAI) concepts through a privacy lens. Participants probe the possibilities and limitations of genAI while considering implications for intellectual privacy, intellectual property, data sovereignty, and human agency. In the centerpiece activity, participants engage in a hidden layer simulation to develop a conceptual understanding of the algorithms in the neural networks underlying LLMs and their implications for machine bias and AI hallucination.

    Using ChatGPT For Library Instruction: Information Creation as a Process

    ChatGPT is an generative artificial intelligence chatbot released in November 2022 by OpenAI. What are the opportunities in using this tool to teach library instruction? This document highlights various ways to engage with learners in critically analyzing ChatGPT (version GPT-3) and its responses through the ACRL Frame: Information Creation as a Process. 

    Project Look Sharp

    Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.

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