This is really interesting. "We've turned the national curriculum... into a formal knowledge graph - a way of storing things (such as subjects, topics and concepts) and the relationships between them as structured data, rather than text that software has to interpret." View it on GitHub. Related, and what led me to this: Doug Belshaw's post on curriculum (and honestly, it was the cool diagram that drew me in). The Oak project is an algorithm, but maybe the better way is to think of curriculum as an heuristic: "arriving at a solution by trying different actions to see if they produce the result that is wanted, rather than using strict rules." Belshaw also links to a post from Nick Dennis where the title gives you the gist: The Social Construction of Curriculum in an Age of Technological Solutionism. "Can we create an aligned AI within a fundamentally misaligned economic, political and social system?" He also makes me want to read Emma Taylor's book An Elite Education: How Privilege is Produced in a Private School (sadly paywalled by, yes, an elite institution). " What's important," writes Belshaw, "is to avoid a technocratic approach to learning which treats young people as having to adapt to the algorithm, rather than the algorithm adapting to them."
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