Collaborative activity: biases, quality data (panorama)

  • Step1

    Strudents from the 2nd P.S of Nea Erythraia were asked to draw pictures of children in order to train a robot (more here) .

    Step2

    We create a survey based on those pictures and ask the students of our partner's schools to vote if those pictures were clear enough to make a human or a machine to decide if it'a a boy or a girls (quality data, stereotypes). They were also asked to reflect on those data, especially if all cases of children were included (African, Asian, with disabilities, glasses...) 

    Step3

    Schools' survey participation

     

    2nd P.s of Nea Erythraia: St1 Class

    Aristotelio college

    Germantas progymnasium

    II. OŠ Čakovec - Croatia

    Mustafa Kiriş Ortaokulu Efeler/Aydın/Turkey

    Tekkeköy İmam Hatip Ortaokulu

     

    8th PS of Nea Filadelfeia, Athens

     

    Evren Paşa Ortaokulu

    8th P.S. Kifissia

     

    Step4

    the results:

    Based on the results of the questionnaire, students have realized how important are Data (well defined, quality, diversity, without misunderstandings) to train a Machine Learning program. They also realized that they have reproduced some  Unconscious Biases (girls have long hair and boys short hair) and have taken into account children with their own characteristics (European, no glasses, no fat children, no or very little children with handicaps, no African nor Asian children...).