Big Idea

This year, as part of a getting to know you exercise and to practice CER, I told students about Youtube, Spotify, and TikTok’s algorithms and how they are able to accurately predict other songs or videos I would like to watch based on what I’ve previously viewed and my personality and interests.

I told my students to pretend they were the algorithm and to try to predict the songs I like to listen to. I showed them 3 playlists I created and to told them to predict the playlist that is actually a playlist I listen to heavily (the other two are not songs I listen to regularly).

We listened to clips of each song before they started and we even played a short game of 20 questions. Then, I gave them 5 minutes to come up with a conclusion as to which playlist was mine. I told them to explain their choice using the CER or Claim Evidence Reasoning format and to use their observations of me as their evidence.

To view my students’ responses, please watch the episode. To view my playlists, you can download my handout below which also has a summary of my instructions.

Resources

Handout(s): Handout – One CER Activity Using 3 Music Playlists

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