Online Assignment # 1,  ED 509

For our first online assignment, carefully review the instructions you received in your email.

The links below provides access to the online resources you need to complete the assignment.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell

You will need to find and click the link named Excerpt once you get to the book review above.

Using the questions in the assignment, read the excerpt and take some notes that will help you to answer those questions.

Once you have completed reading the excerpt and any other info you want to read about the book and the author, visit the Implicit Association Test (IAT) web site and take any one of the fifteen tests. You received a handout showing you the web site in class last week.

Here is the link (this is the same link that we have on the previous page for Part 2 of the assignment.

Tolerance.Org

You will find the link to the test pages in red at the bottom left of the Tolerance home page.

Once you have completed the test, use the assignment questions, item 5, to guide your written response. Type your assignment in Word and email the document to me.

The Tolerance web site has some other links including one for teachers that you might find useful. Take time to read the other information.