The average might be useful, but it can never describe an individual.
Tag: raisingheretics
From Hypnotised to Heretic: Immunising Society Against Misinformation.
What we can build this way is a world where policy is evidence based. Where we make data informed decisions, while understanding that the data isn’t perfect. Where kids are empowered to learn all of the skills they need to solve problems in their own communities. Where technological solutions are rationally evaluated, rather than uncritically worshipped.Â
Using Data Science to investigate discrimination – Part 1, Mobility
What I love about projects like this is the opportunity for students to consider issues that don't normally impact them, and then quantify them, and come up with ways to improve those numbers.
The little chatbot that couldn’t
Chatbots are not capable of understanding, or analysis, or even differentiating between truth and fiction. All they can do is fit together something that looks like language. Which makes it desperately worrying when teachers use them for marking, lawyers use them for coming up with arguments to use in court, or they get used for anything requiring analysis or accuracy.
Learning to be wrong
When you penalise wrong answers, you build in a sense of shame and failure to being wrong that most people never get over. It leads to cheating, to covering up of mistakes, and to avoiding doing things where being wrong is a possibility. How about, instead, we make it the default that you assume that you will be wrong in numerous ways. We make it a fundamental part of the process to figure out those ways, and even reward the finding of those mistakes. In doing so, we give people the freedom to explore, to try new things, and, above all, to learn without fear.