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Mitch Resnick on Measuring the Easy Stuff

July 29, 2013 By Will Richardson

Mitch Resnick of the MIT Media Lab:

I sometimes worry [that] it’s very easy for computers to give feedback these days. It’s seen as this great thing. Students are filling out answers to problem sets and exams. Right away it shows them if they’re right or wrong and they can get feedback right away, which can influence what they do next. Getting feedback is great. I’m all for feedback.

My concern, it’s only easy to give feedback on certain types of knowledge and certain types of activity. I think there’s a real risk, that we as a society, are going to end up giving too much privilege to the types of knowledge and the types of activity that are most easily evaluated and assessed computationally.

In other words, we’ll measure what’s easy to measure and call it a day. Not hard to see that coming.

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