Last week, while I wasn't looking, ADSEI turned four. Four years of working with teachers and running workshops. Four years of creating resources. Four years of refining what it means to teach Data Science. Four years of understanding the impact of using real problems to teach STEM and Data Science. When I first started teaching… Continue reading Four Years of Data Science Education
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Why get excited about Data Science?
We need you to be data scientists. Not necessarily professionally, but to have enough data literacy to ask difficult questions, to challenge the status quo, to be heretics. And we need you to do it on the basis of evidence and data.Â
Why does Education need fixing?
What do Climate Change, Covid, and STEM education have in common? How can we tackle inequality, and stop social media manipulating us?
Raising Heretics to Save the World
We need a rationally sceptical population. We need to stop being irrationally sceptical of climate science and vaccines and start being rationally sceptical of government policy, business motives, and media beatups. We need to build a new world. And world building has to start with education.
Vaccine hesitancy is a logical consequence of the way we teach science.
Science is actually a way of exploring and understanding the world, and of solving problems. By its very nature science deals with uncertainty, and constantly proves itself wrong as new information becomes available. Unfortunately we teach it as a discipline of facts and right answers.