The New Jim Code? Race and Discriminatory Design | EdSurge News | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

This article is part of the guide The EdSurge On Air Podcast.

People have a tendency to treat technology and data as neutral, sterile and immune to mortal failings. Yet the digital tools we use at schools, jobs and home don’t simply fall from the sky—humans produce them. And that means human biases can and do slip right into the algorithms that have increasing power over our lives.