Three sessions on how a feed decides what your student sees.

Ranking systems are not conspiracies; they are signals, weighted. Your student learns what actually gets measured, why content producing a strong feeling spreads faster than calm content, and what follows from optimising for attention.

The third session is what makes this unit unusual: a great deal of what gets said about “the algorithm” is overstated or invented, and the unit sorts well-supported claims from the rest. It does not argue that algorithms are harmless, and it does not endorse every dramatic claim about them either.

Teaching a student to ask what the evidence supports outlasts teaching them a conclusion.

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Written by a licensed K-12 business teacher with more than thirteen years in the classroom. Built to be taught by a parent with no background in the subject.