Math isn’t prejudiced, goes the argument. But these arithmetic programs can learn bias from the data fed into them by human beings, leading to unfair treatment and discrimination.
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Software freebies can help businesses grow, innovate and attract staff – assuming they’ve worked out how to protect against the dangers.
Teaching children to code with computers is only part of the challenge to preparing people for a career in the IT industry. But it can also do more harm that good in some cases.
If we want students to be well prepared for the 21st century, then we should be teaching coding in school.
A heavy focus of Bill Shorten’s budget reply speech was preparing for the future with science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. While this focus is a step in the right direction, the policies probably aren’t the right way to go about it.
The US and UK governments often mirror each other’s strategies when it comes to new education policies, and the recent introduction of coding into the school curriculum is no exception. From this September…
Ask a parent what a school should teach and they’ll tell you, “When my child leaves school, I want them to be able to understand money, to work well with others, go to university or to get a good job…
Michael Gove is ploughing ahead with plans to gather an elite team of computer science experts to help bring coding into schools. He has rightly acknowledged that teaching programming in schools is vital…
A new subject is to be introduced in England to kick start our technological future. Instead of teaching ICT, the national curriculum published this week calls on schools to teach computing. This new way…
If horror meister Stephen King was a computer programmer, his language of choice would probably be COBOL: it’s quite verbose in exposition, has been around for ages and people still make a lot of money…
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Educational Experiences team lead (Senior Lecturer), ANU School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
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ESRC Future Research Leader Fellow, University of Edinburgh
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Research Fellow, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University
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Professor of Music, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Business IT & Logistics, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Computing, University of Stirling