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ABC Radio episode on artificial intelligence, ethics and education (November, 2019)

Added to SoLAR November 12, 2019 • Tags: , • Categories:
URL: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/artificial-intelligence,-ethics-and-education/11654930

Episode Summary AI holds enormous potential for transforming the way we teach, says education technology expert Simon Buckingham Shum, but first we need to define what kind of education system we want. Also, the head of the UK’s new Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation warns democratic governments that they urgently need an ethics andContinue reading →

Algorithmic Accountability for Learning Analytics (May, 2016)

by Simon Buckingham Shum (Invited Talk UCL Institute of Education, London Knowledge Lab)
Added to SoLAR July 25, 2019 • Tags: , • Categories:
URL: http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2016/03/algorithmic-accountability-for-learning-analytics/

ABSTRACT. As algorithms pervade societal life, they are moving from the preserve of computer science to becoming the object of far wider academic and media attention. Many are now asking how the behaviour of algorithms can be made “accountable”. But why are they “opaque” and to whom? As this vital discussion unfolds in relation toContinue reading →