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School Work and Surveillance

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Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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I am sorry that we're all kicking off fall term online again — well, online is better than dead, of course. This is already happening, of course, with or without the pandemic. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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That’s not the story that DeVos wants to tell, of course.). Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. John Merrow also has thoughts on the TV show.