This is a blog on data but not the data that we know as educators.
Last week I heard of a tragic plane crash in Eastern Europe and of course the first thing that was reported was that the airplane's black box was found. The black box is that device that captures all the data from the airplane as it flies, providing the investigators with information as to what may have precipitated the accident.
That got me thinking. What kind of "black box full of data" are we creating? If we look at our life today and we had an internal "black box" to investigate, what would that black box say about our life? If we knew that our thoughts, moods, feelings, actions were being "recorded" would our internal "black box" be changed? If we could access our "black box" to look at past data, would that make a difference to how we live the rest of our lives?
Perhaps it is time for us to act as if we did have an "internal black box" that measured ourselves. Or do we have one already and we call it conscience?
