Learners will be able to explain what health disparities are and how they are a part of a system of discrimination, colonization, and white supremacy. Learners will be able to explain what health literacy is and how understanding it will make them better providers. Learners will begin to think about their role and the health sciences profession's role in restructuring the systems of oppression.

By the end of the #ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy workshop, students will be able to:

1. describe recommender system algorithms in order to examine how they shape individuals' online experiences through personalization
2. analyze their online behaviors and subsequent ad profiles in order to reflect on how they influence how individuals encounter, perceive, & evaluate information, leading to echo chambers & political polarization
3. assess how their data is used to personalize their online experience in order to build algorithmic awareness & make informed, intentional choices about their information consumption

Introduce students to critical reading skills to support their ability to complete the readings and extract important topics and ideas. Have students practice critical reading skills: 1) identify key elements of a text, 2) reflect on how methods, structure, and presentation impact their reception of a text’s arguments, and 3) become more comfortable sharing their experiences with each other and considering how and why different people have different reactions to the same text. 

The student will apply practical critical reading skills to a variety of pre-sources in order to select, search, identify, and retrieve pertinent information sources.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills to Help Sheets in order to identify methods for searching, identifying, evaluating, and assessing pertinent information sources.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills to identify discipline specific terminology in order to find pertinent information sources.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order identify key contributors and writings in the psychology discipline

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order to distinguish primary and secondary empirical research studies. 

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order to determine citation relevancy for a given information need.

The student will apply practical critical reading skills in order to determine database (information resource) relevancy to an information need.