Week 16 of 17
Innovation
Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.
Speed and safety in direct tension. More testing protects people and delays access for people suffering right now.
CLASSMATE
The people harmed by delay are invisible. The ones harmed by a bad device are not.
Design is a loop, not a line. A failed prototype is an input rather than an ending.
Our first build failed on trial one. We had not controlled a variable we did not know was a variable. One trial is a measurement. Three trials are evidence.
Ours partly met its goal and failed on one measure. Writing both, with a specific proposed change, is the assignment.
Model specs, trial data, CER. The honest version is more useful than the flattering one. That is the most repeated idea in this class.