Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations.
AI-powered predictive systems have high margins of error. However, data visualisations of algorithmic systems in education and other social fields tend to visualise certainty, thus invisibilising the underlying approximations and uncertainties of the algorithmic systems and the social settings in wh...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 359 - 379 |
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