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Oak National Academy drafts knowledge graph of England's curriculum

Original: Every curriculum can be an algorithm. It can be an heuristic, too. Oak National Academy has published a draft knowledge

Oak National Academy has published a draft knowledge graph of the national curriculum for England, prompting debate among education commentators. One long-standing argument now circulating is that any curriculum is effectively an algorithm or heuristic, and that encoding the curriculum as structured data makes that explicit. Commenters are weighing what it means to formalise teaching content this way, and what the implications are for teachers' autonomy.

Why now: The publication of a machine-readable knowledge graph of the national curriculum raises fresh questions about curriculum-as-algorithm thinking in English schools.

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• Every curriculum can be an algorithm. It can be an heuristic, too. Oak National Academy has published a draft knowledge graph of the national curriculum for England. I’ve been using a slide about "curriculum as algorithm" for years, so obviously I had some thoughts to share.… · dajb@social.coop · 2

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