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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

In the last few months, AI-powered technologies like ChatGPT and BingAI have received a lot of attention for their potential to transform many aspects of our lives. Take facial recognition technology. 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. Dr. Ayanna Howard is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zyrobotics, an educational technology company, and the Linda J.

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