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How Should We Approach the Ethical Considerations of AI in K-12 Education?

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Tools like Turnitin that check for plagiarism, intelligent tutoring softwares like Khan Academy or iReady that automate or personalize instruction, and chatbots like Alexa that answer student questions are all vulnerable to algorithmic biases in development and inequitable outcomes in implementation.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. The popularity of sites like Khan Academy helped fuel the narrative that video could teach anything and that YouTube would “ reinvent education ” — funny, as Thomas Edison thought the same thing about film back in 1922.

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