It's Important To Ask "Why?"
If you are a parent or have been with a 5 year old for any period of time, at some point the child will ask you the question "Why?" In response you try your best to answer the question in a way that a 5 year old can hopefully understand. Inevitably the follow up question will come, "Why?" It's quite easy to get caught up in this repetitive questioning until you get to the limits of your knowledge and have to admit that you just don't know. Why, is a great question. One that young children are quite happy to ask, but one that as you get older, you probably use less and less. Too often it's easier for us not to ask why something is like it is and to accept that it just is. Which leads me onto the reason for writing this. In my last post I wrote that I recently met with a group of primary school digital leads. I gave a presentation about the need for critical AI literacy and then had some time to chat to a couple of them and observe some work from primary ...
