Predictive Analytics - Problems, Challenges, and Promises by A.Cook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8 Data and Community Session 7 en-us 2021-07-15 19:20:02 UTC 2026-01-06 03:27:48 UTC hello@padlet.com How is the following statement problematic? “Politicians and journalists often claim prison planners use third grade reading scores to predict the number of future prison beds needed”. SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558190 2021-07-15 20:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558190 Video: The danger of predictive algorithms in criminal justice SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558678 Watch the video]]> 2021-07-15 20:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558678 Article: How Is the Use of Predictive Analytics in the Criminal Justice System Negatively Impacting Black Defendants? SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558758 Read the article]]> 2021-07-15 20:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558758 Challenges, Promises, and Problems SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558969 Choose one of the activities below to do individually or with a group. Write a note on the padlet with: 1) your key takeaways 2) how it relates to your life and 3) how it relates to teaching]]> 2021-07-15 20:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651558969 Activity: Harvard Implicit Bias Test SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651560151 Take at least one of the tests]]> 2021-07-15 20:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651560151 Activity: Reflect on different areas of your life, such as social media, apps, health information, education information, etc... Make a list of data that is being collected about you and how it is being collected. SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651560588 Create a link to your reflection. Don't forget to answer the prompts above as well!]]> 2021-07-15 20:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651560588 they are 8 years old https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590592 The prison planners are using a deficit mindset on kids that have not even been alive for a decade
it doesn't account for the massive amounts of potential for the kids, since they are 8 years old]]> 2021-07-15 21:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590592 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590653 It's very fatalistic rather than trying to work to reform and fix the system. It assumes that children are destined to go a certain path. We should instead use resources to help children in school and in their communities.]]> 2021-07-15 21:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590653 bc they're children? jdo1237 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590853 they're labeling and tainting the lens through which children are seen.  also reading scores from what test? a bias one?]]> 2021-07-15 21:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590853 shanks11 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590863 This statement assumes that 3rd grade reading scores correlate/lead to prison and ignore all other factors (race, neighborhood, socioeconomics, etc) and uses a deficit mindset rather than growth. Not only this, but then this can lead to over policing as certain areas might then expect crime rather than the more likely of community without it. ]]> 2021-07-15 21:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651590863 scottawalters9 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591079 Seeing as many prisons are operated at "for profit" it would be extremely problematic to use reading scores of third graders as an indicator of future incarceration rates. For one its just wrong as they are just kids. Two, it implies an incentive for those who have a financial stake in the prison industry to root for our education system to fail our students. ]]> 2021-07-15 21:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591079 Ms_Spears21 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591112 There are so many reasons why this is problematic for one these are babies that they are already predicting their future and counting them out. Also standardized test are not made for people of color to do well. ]]> 2021-07-15 21:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591112 kathrynbafford https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591200 If prison planners are using 3rd grade reading scores (I don't know where the data is coming from for the politicians and journalists) then they are predicting children's future which seems a lot more unpredictable than something like flight tickets. They are also reinforcing the school to prison pipeline by planning when students are only 8 years old. ]]> 2021-07-15 21:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591200 Research - How is predictive analytics a good thing? How is it good for us? Our students? How could it help us thrive? SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591246 Create a link to your reflection (or write below).  Don't forget to answer the prompts above as well!]]> 2021-07-15 21:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591246 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591303 It reinforces the school to prison pipeline, assuming that failure by THIRD GRADE means you are destined for prison. ]]> 2021-07-15 21:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591303 jwhite012 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591343 Typically, "reading scores" are determined through biased text and text that does not relate/appeal to people of color. In the same sense, majority people of color are experiencing incarceration. #abolishprisons ]]> 2021-07-15 21:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591343 Alice SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591622 The statement is problematic because standard tests are not even necessarily valid measures of student learning, so how could they be considered valid for making decisions like number of prisons?]]> 2021-07-15 21:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651591622 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651594154 It reinforces the school to prison pipeline, assuming that failure by THIRD GRADE means you are destined for prison. ]]> 2021-07-15 21:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651594154 Disability Implicit Bias Test SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651602811 1) My key takeaway is that the test showed that I have an automatic moderate preference for abled people compared to disabled people, which is true of 27% of people who take the test.  I need to learn more about disability justice.
2) This relates to my life in so many ways.  I have many people in my life (including myself) with disabilities yet the test is still showing an implicit bias.
3) It relates to my teaching because I am responsible for creating an inclusive, supportive, and productive classroom environment for all of my students. I need to be actively working to address my implicit biases.]]> 2021-07-15 21:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651602811 https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651607438 Insurance companies use predictive analytics in order to accurately price risk. This allows for us to live in a world where individuals can make small contributions to a plan and have enormous sums of money available if needed.]]> 2021-07-15 21:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/offb0yxh3ami59b8/wish/1651607438