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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Take facial recognition technology. Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. When used by police for surveillance purposes, the technology can lead to wrongful arrests or even deadly violence.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

That assessment may be technically true, but many librarians and scholars see the legacy of the project differently. Through the HathiTrust Research Center , scholars can tap into the Google Books corpus and conduct computational analysis—looking for patterns in large amounts of text, for instance—without breaching copyright.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? Diamond: When her district identifies a need, her team does an exhaustive competitive analysis, using an RFI and not an RFP, to see what products will work. She has 20 years’ experience in strategic communications, writing, and policy analysis, primarily in education.

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