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.