A funny thing happened on the way to academic integrity. Plagiarism detection software (PDS), like Turnitin, has seized control of student intellectual property. While students who use Turnitin are discouraged from copying other work, the company itself can strip mine and sell student work for profit.
Source: A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case against Turnitin | Hybrid Pedagogy
Dear educators using @ wix please stop and read the Terms of Service. Did you know you can not export and use your data anywhere else but wix? This isn’t how the web should work. Plenty of easy UI that still rely on a commitment to portability
Source: Dear educators using @wix please stop and …
Via: đź‘Ť Greg McVerry on Wix and the Open Web | Read Write Collect
I think there’s a lot to say about machine learning and the push for “personalization” in education. And the historian in me cannot help but add that folks have trying to “personalize” education using machines for about a century now. The folks building these machines have, for a very long time, believed that collecting the student data generated while using the machines will help them improve their “programmed instruction” – this decades before Mark Zuckerberg was born.
I think we can talk about the labor issues – how this continues to shift expertise and decision making in the classroom, for starters, but also how students’ data and students’ work is being utilized for commercial purposes. I think we can talk about privacy and security issues – how sloppily we know that these companies, and unfortunately our schools as well, handle student and teacher information.
Source: Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education
A great short video from @johnmaeda that touches on social media, ownership, control, identity, and the why of blogging.
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