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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

These days we do a lot of workshops and special projects around freedom of information and privacy issues and advocacy work because that act was passed back in 1992. You had some experience in research and advocacy for privacy before you started there, while you were a student. So some updates are in order. Can tell us about that?

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s. I want to talk to you today about the history of personalized learning – in no small part because it’s taken on such political and financial and rhetorical significance. Take your pick. Take your pick.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals. Crested Pigeon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

a blockbuster case whose outcome will affect whether transgender students can use the school bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. Its outcome will have ramifications in schools throughout the country.” Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”