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- Getting the most out of Group Work in FYS – Professor Sheila Fields
- Higher Education and You – Beth Wolfe FYS Faculty Meeting Packet Beth Wolfe
- Bobby Dunbar – addresses numerous learning outcomes, particularly information literacy, inquiry based thinking and integrative thinking.
- What Americans Can Learn from Other Food Cultures – and the instruction plan / Intercultural Thinking Assignment. Addresses intercultural and metacognitive thinking. You also might want to use The New York Times article, The Dinners That Shaped History, particularly the part “The Dinner that that Fueled the Civil Rights Freedom Fighters” in addition to the TED article. Here is the assignment that accompanies that reading: Intercultural Thinking assignment The Dinner that Fueled the Civil Rights Freedom Fighters
- Fake News – developed by librarian and FYS instructor Sabrina Thomas for Communication Studies classes. Could be adapted for FYS. Addresses numerous learning outcomes, particularly information literacy and inquiry based thinking.
- Confirmation Bias
Scenarios similar to the Final Exam: