Abstract Social media platforms have received increasingly bad press coverage over the course of the last decade for everything from problematic uses of algorithms to the ability of authoritarian regimes to leverage them as a way to impact elections. Unfortunately, this emphasis on critique, though justified, has led to a paranoid form of thinking in which many understand that … [Read more...] about Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy
Algorithmic Thinking
Sowing the Seeds of Algorithmic Literacy: K-4 Practices for Studying If-Then Structures, Perspective, and Persuasion
Abstract Even students too young to study algorithms or algorithmic bias per se can learn the habits of mind that will later help them to understand algorithms and to search out and identify bias. At La Jolla Country Day School, students in grades K-4 study if-then-else logic, perspective/point of view, and the difference between information and persuasion, all of which are … [Read more...] about Sowing the Seeds of Algorithmic Literacy: K-4 Practices for Studying If-Then Structures, Perspective, and Persuasion
