Welcome to Your Personal Learning Lab
Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals. It is how we consciously know and understand our character, feelings, motives, and desires. It requires the ability to self-reflect and be aware of the impact we have on others and the world around us (and of their impact on us).
This personal learning lab provides you with tools and games aimed to help you build on your self-awareness and knowledge. Check out the learning opportunities below based on: Microaggressions, Race and Racism, Bias, and Privilege.
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Microaggressions
Killing Me Softly
A game demonstrating how it feels to suffer microaggressions and acculturative stress day after day. Play now.
Mixed Messages
A tool for recognizing microaggressions and the messages they send. Learn more.
Interrupt the Microaggressions
A tool for interrupting microaggressions. Learn more.
Bias
Project Implicit
What are the attitudes and beliefs that you may be unwilling or unable to share? Learn more.
What is Anti-Bias Behavior?
Take a personal assessment of anti-racist behavior. Learn more.
Race and Bias Cleanse
Interested in a seven-day race and gender-bias cleanse? Learn more.
Snap Judgment
In an instant, pick an image that matches the word. Play now.
Can You See the Bias?
MTV’s Look Different campaign charges us to take a step back and analyze our bias. Learn more.
Race and Racism
How Different Are We?
How different are we? Test what you know about human diversity and learn why race isn’t biological.Test your knowledge.
Sorting People
Try your hand at “sorting” individuals and see if it matches how people think of themselves. Or explore how we might sort people by physical traits. Challenge your mindset.
What’s My Story?
A self-assessment journaling exercise that fosters your self-knowledge and helps you to understand where you are positioned within anti-racism frameworks. Learn more.
The Myth of Race
The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes. Watch now.
Taking Inventory
Questions to take stock of your internalized racism inventory. Get curious.
Crania America
Crania Americana -the most important book in the history of scientific racism. Watch now.
Looking Back to Move Forward
Explore the historical gallery on Annenberg 13; follow the floor signs to get to the gallery wall. (Near the Office of Curricular Support; Annenberg 13-90.)
Privilege
What is Privilege?
The consequences of oppression. Learn more.
Check, Check, Check
The White Privilege checklist. Learn more.
The Marginalized
Who is marginalized. Discover the list.
Privilege Walk
An activity designed to help people understand the effects of societal privileges. (After viewing the video and answering the questions, ask yourself one more: ‘Where do I stand?’) Watch now.
The Power Chart
There’s a tug-of-war in society. Learn more.
Matrix of Oppression
Discover the –Isms of societal structures. Learn more.
Power Relations
Common behavioral patterns that perpetuate power relations. Learn more.