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One Book One Highland

One Book One Highland 2023

Join the Clarence Mitchell Library for the One Book One Highland common reading program! This fall, students, faculty and staff are invited to read, “What the Fact?!: Finding the Truth in All the Noise” by Dr. Seema Yasmin.

“What the Fact?!: Finding the Truth in All the Noise” Synopsis
What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make sense of it anymore? Well, we have to. As conspiracy theories and online hoaxes increasingly become a part of our national discourse and “truth” itself is being questioned, it has never been more vital to build the discernment necessary to tell fact from fiction, and media literacy has never been more vital.

A copy of "What the Fact?!" by Dr. Seema Yasmin sits on a table in the library

Resources

More about the author:

Dr. Seema Yasmin

Algorithms and the Attention Economy Workshop

Digital Privacy Workshop

Outcomes

  • Goal: Establish a common reading experience to foster community at Highland Community College.
    • Readers will connect in- and out- of the classroom experiences.
    • Readers will identify community through shared reading and discussion experiences.
  • Goal: Provide opportunities for the Highland community to explore diverse perspectives and ways of viewing the world.
    • Readers will interact with others whose experiences and ideas may differ from their own.
    • Readers will utilize empathy to communicate within ongoing discussions.
    • Readers will recognize Highland’s core values of integrity, compassion, and respect.
  • Goal: Create opportunities for the Highland community to participate in scholarly conversation.
    • Readers will see themselves as contributors to scholarship rather than as only consumers of it.
    • Readers will recognize that scholarly conversations are ongoing and the conversation is never finished.
    • Readers will recognize a comfortable, safe environment that is conducive to learning.

Events

  • August 28: Official Kickoff
    Books are available in the Clarence Mitchell Library while supplies last. E-books and E-Audiobooks will be available via the Libby app on September 1.
  • August 30: Fall Picnic Giveaway
    Stop by the library table for your free copy of What the Fact!
  • September 11 – 2 p.m.: WTF?! Mr. Moderow’s Mysteries!
    Game on! Adam Moderow will lead our One Book One Highland kickoff event — a fast paced mystery scavenger hunt that you and your friends can solve together!
  • September 25 – 2 p.m. via Zoom™: WTF?! Book Discussion Chapters 1 & 2
    with Juliet Moderow and Laura Watson.
    Get the Zoom™ here.
  • September 27 – 10 a.m. in H-206: WTF?! Book Discussion Chapters 1 & 2
    with Juliet Moderow and Laura Watson.
  • October 12 – 1 p.m. in the Clarence Mitchell Library: WTF?! The Library of Babel readout and discussion
  • October 24 – 2 p.m. via Zoom : WTF?! Book Discussion Chapter 3
    with Brian Moore and Jim Yeager.
    Get the Zoom™ here.
  • October 25 – 2 p.m. in H-206: WTF?! Book Discussion Chapter 3
    with Brian Moore and Jim Yeager.
  • November 14 – noon in H-201: WTF?! The Social Dilemma
    Movie screening and discussion with pizza. Screening time: 94 minutes.
  • November 28 – 10 a.m. via Zoom : WTF?! Book Discussion Chapters 4 & 5
    with Rachel Feldhaus and Michael Skwara.
    Get the Zoom™ here.
  • November 29 – 2 p.m. in H-206: WTF?! Book Discussion Chapters 4 & 5
    with Rachel Feldhaus and Michael Skwara.