Drawing Algorithms
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An algorithm, drawn by a 39-year-old female elementary school teacher in the US.

Okay. So can you draw how an algorithm works on the other half of the page? Oh, my goodness! Let's see. You can narrate this, because I still have the recorder. I'm just going to use A and B as my, the thing I'm talking about right now, or searching for whatever, and it's going to go over here. Then it's going to get scrambled up. Then it's going to come back over here. And they'll be like, “Oh, because you like this.” So I'm going to do like congruency signs. Then I'm going to give you lower case “a” and lower case “b.” So similar, yet a little bit different. But I think you're going to be interested because it seems basically the same, but not entirely. Okay. Great. So more generally speaking, where do you ever hear about algorithms? I have this friend who does sociological research and she's the only person I've ever really heard talk about it. Or at school we do a ton of assistive technology. You're a teacher? I'm a teacher. And we work ... we do a lot of like speech to texts, a lot of those kinds of things. So the word algorithm gets brought into things from our tech people. I don't really know what they're talking about, but I hear it.