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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. School districts developed IT departments, even creating and hiring for the title “CTO/CIO.”

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. (I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.)

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