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

Shake Up Learning

Of course, AI is not new to our world. A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. Providing personalized student learning is wonderful, but at what cost?

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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? "This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue."

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. So maybe your participation grade in an online course is better than a student who would just log in quickly, log out. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. By 2016, Glam Media, rebranded as Mode Media, shut its doors , transferring ownership of Ning to Cyndx.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

Hack Education

More data collection will improve course design. More data collection will improve student learning and student outcomes. ” “The Higher Ed Learning Revolution,” as NPR put it: Tracking Each Student’s Every Move.“ I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis.

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'Education Technology's Completely Over'

Hack Education

Few would care, of course, except those of us struggling to make money in this “new economy.” Prince fought for a long time with record labels, and arguably that makes his response to the new digital “masters” – Apple, Google, Spotify, and such – more understandable. Of course, none of us are Prince.