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Opinion: Big Data is not the devil, but it surely isn’t education’s savior, either

Barth Keck
Barth Keck

Barth Keck is an English teacher and assistant football coach who also teaches courses in journalism and media literacy at Haddam-Killingworth High School. Email Barth here

Life is messy. Just when you think you have things figured out, BAM! An unforeseen problem whacks you right between the eyes.

No wonder we continually seek ways to make sense of life’s illogical turns.

It’s precisely why we love Big Data and all of the information it can whip into definitive meaning.

Algorithms instantaneously organize an infinity of online information.

Sabermetrics provide baseball aficionados formulas to predict outcomes and inform strategy.

See the complete story at CT News Junkie.

 

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