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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) Click To Tweet Listen to this article. Over the years, I have shared many updates and cool tools that use AI. Providing personalized student learning is wonderful, but at what cost? They control what you hear, what you see, and what you can do with it.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology.

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They Said it Better Than I Can

Mistakengoal.com

Despite the occasional over-the-top writing, this blog was an excellent source of information about the recent kerfuffle about Purdue University’s learning analytics software. Microsoft Social Media Collective Research Blog : The title of this blog tells you almost all you need to know.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

Hack Education

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Ben Williamson on “Learning from psychographic personality profiling.” ” “This article is part of a Guide exploring innovations in student success, which is sponsored by Salesforce.org.”