the devil is in the data - graham brown-martin

16th October 2014

The Devil is in the DataGraham Brown-Martin

“They’ll have that repeated forty or fifty times more before

they wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A

hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty

months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson.

Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum

of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s

mind only. The adult’s mind too—all his life long. The mind

that judges and desires and decides—made up of these

suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!”

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The age of ubiquitous computing

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Towards a new status quo

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Through a glass darkly

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Invisible computing

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Your consciousness on Sat Nav

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Your friends and family automated

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Your entertainment determined

IntermissionSay it’s not so…

A world of data for saleEverything counts in large amounts

Algorithmic biasWe think so you don’t have to

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Taylorism reimagined

Teaching as a delivery systemSkills and Enterprise minister Matthew Hancock has unveiled plans for teachers to take a backseat when it comes to "imparting knowledge", with computers and personalised online tuition leading the way.

“The message I’m trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions

that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology – they

are about politics, and they need to be scrutinised as closely as we would scrutinise

decisions about politics.”

Evgeny Morozov

"That’s why I always say that teaching is an art form. It’s not a delivery system. I don’t know

when we started confusing teaching with FedEx. Teaching is an arts practice. It’s about connoisseurship and judgment and intuition.

We all remember the great teachers in our lives. The ones who kind of woke us up and that we’re still thinking about because they said something to us or they gave us an angle on

something that we’ve never forgotten."

Sir Ken Robinson

“I wouldn’t trust an algorithm to do that”

Graham Brown-Martin

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