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School shootings have driven a booming school security industry. Parents and students are still grappling with this new surveillance and its impact on a generation of kids
As families worry for their children’s futures, a district has instituted a yearly data purge
In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms. The devices purport to identify stress and anger before violence erupts. Our testing found them less than reliable.
It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). Subsidized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, some publications...
Pupils protest over a Paris school's plan to track them with Bluetooth devices.
Ben Williamson Contemporary education policy and practice is increasingly influenced by developments in data analytics. The big data analytics story of the year so far concerns the alleged ‘p…
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by Frida Alim, Nate Cardozo, Gennie Gebhart, Karen Gullo, and Amul KaliaDownload the report as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYStudents and their families are backed into a corner. As students across the United States are handed school-issued laptops and signed up for educational cloud services, the way the educational system treats the privacy of students is undergoing profound changes—often without their parents’ notice or consent, and usually without a real choice to opt out of privacy-invading technology.Students are using technology in the classroom at an unprecedented rate.
The Department for Education must stop giving away identifiable data to commercial users and press and start being transparent about its practices
This talk was delivered virtually today at Western Oregon University. The slide deck is available here.
Malcolm Gladwell beschreef in een van zijn boeken hoe Amerikaanse inlichtingendiensten te werk gaan bij het 'profilen' van mogelijke verdachten. Banktransacties schijnen daarbij een grote rol te spel
PO-Raad en VO-raad sloten onlangs een nieuw convenant privacy met leveranciers en uitgevers. Dit convenant moet het scholen en hun besturen gemakkelijker maken afspraken te maken over hoe zij veilig
"Vroeger ging je naar school om te studeren, nu om bestudeerd te worden."
RTL nieuws had als eerste door hoe de relatie tussen scholen en uitgevers in elkaar zat. Dit nieuwsitem heeft tot een hoop bewustzijn en veranderingen geleid.
En in 2014 noemde ging het over "Data and Privacy".
In 2013 noemde Watters de trend "Data vs Privacy".
Audrey Watters is een zeer kritische volger van het onderwijstechnologie domein. Aan het einde van elk jaar bespreekt ze de trends van het jaar daarvoor. In 2012 sprak ze nog over: "Education Data and Learning Analytics".