TALAMANA · THE AI LITERACY MAP FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN · Studio Practice · AGE 11—15 · FACTUAL · DURABLE

Weigh where the answer came from

Find a second source that does not copy the first, and ask what each could know.

When to use

Any time you are about to use a fact you did not find out yourself: for homework, a model, a presentation, a decision.

The method

Three steps. First, ask where the answer came from — a person, a book, a website, a chatbot. Second, ask what that source could actually know. A municipal record knows the plot size; a blog knows what one person thought; a chatbot knows what answers usually look like. Third, find a second source that does not copy the first, and compare. If the two agree, you are on firmer ground. If they disagree, you have found a question worth asking.

Watch for this

Two websites that say the same thing because one copied the other. That is still one source, not two.

Try it

Pick one fact about a building in your town — the year it was built. Find it in two places. Do they agree? Which source could actually know? Write one line on which you trust more, and why.

Prove it

Show a friend two sources for one fact and explain which is stronger, with your reason.

How it works

Librarians call this source evaluation, and three questions do most of the work: who made this, how could they know, and who else says so independently? A chatbot answer is a source too, and a weak one on its own, because it cannot show where it learned what it says. Later cards on this map turn this into a professional habit: verify before you build on it.

What this idea builds on

What this idea opens up

Sources

Open this idea on the map · The complete map · Logika · RBDS AI Lab, India · revised every edition.

Age grows from 11 at the centre to 22 at the edge, and six sectors show the learning strands. Tab into the map and the arrow keys step from idea to idea, following the links where there is one. Enter opens the idea under the cursor, and E reads out its links and the reason recorded on each. Press slash for Search, question mark for the full key list, and Escape to leave. Open Ideas for the complete readable list, including what each idea builds on and what it opens up.

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