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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

Edsurge

Among them are concerns over what happens to data in learning management systems like Canvas , to questions over whether campuses should ban facial-recognition software. A few years ago, when he was a student at the University of British Columbia, he was an activist on privacy issues and the use of algorithms on campus.

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OPINION: What’s the high-tech tradeoff for students and teachers?

The Hechinger Report

Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data. It is in everyone’s best interests to ensure that schools protect the digital rights of their stakeholders, putting the best interests of students and teachers at the center.”. Weekly Update.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” Via LJWorld.com : “KU student who hacked computers and changed his grades is convicted of 4 felonies.” Despite the headlines , Google Duplex did not defeat “the Turing Test.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive? Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy. And “free” doesn’t last.

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