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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Organizations like the Clayton Christensen Institute, RAND Corporation, and the Brookings Institution often publish reports and research on educational trends, providing data-driven perspectives. Government and Policy Updates: Stay informed about government policies and updates related to education.

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Against the 3A’s of EdTech: AI, Analytics, and Adaptive Technologies in Education

ProfHacker

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. Collecting Data: Bias, Surveillance & Control. Safiyya Noble’s work on Google).

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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. Although this quote mentions Microsoft, the same would apply to Google applications and many others. See: Copyright Policy.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. So you decided you would start looking into some of the data that the system had collected on you?

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Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

Hack Education

We can’t talk about corporate interests and ed-tech without talking about politics and policies. Why has this become the cornerstone of education policy? Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Google’s origins are at Stanford. Why do we test? Why do we measure?

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.