Tech We Trust
Tech We Trust is an educational project that looks at digital skills, data skills, and the ethics of using technology to make decisions.
These activities explore how personal data is used to make decisions that affect our everyday lives.
These decision-making algorithms make important decisions – but they can also go wrong.
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Follow the on-screen instructions to get hands on with data, algorithms, and programming a decision making algorithm in Python.
Learning critical ethical skills alongside digital skills
The lessons cover a mixture of technical skills and people skills:
- Thinking critically about how personal data is collected and stored
- Exploring how decision-making algorithms work, and are used to make decisions
- Reading and understanding numerical data sets
- Using Python code to implement a decision-making app
Listen to technology experts discuss algorithms and how they impact our lives.
The importance of data privacy in the electric vehicle industry
Kyle explains what data privacy has to do with electric vehicles and what you can do to protect your own data while driving electric.
An algorithm for the end of the world
Freelance artist Katrine Turner talks about her projects exploring how algorithms are used in healthcare and customer support over the phone.
Coding fairness in social media
Bryan from Instagram talks about what it means to be fair on social media.An algorithm for the end of the world
Teacher resources
We’ve made resources to make it easy for you to use Tech We Trust as part of your lesson.
Slides to use with your class
We’ve created a slide deck to introduce learners to data, algorithms, and how their personal data is used to make decisions that affect them.
No access to devices? No problem
Use our lesson guide alongside the slide deck and you can still complete the activity with your class. We’ve included a script, quiz questions, timings, and tips to support you.
