this short article seemed like a good place to kick off the new school year. This piece may be a bit of churnalism that rehashes some content from EdWeek's "Why Teachers Should Write," which is definitely worth a read if you have a bit more time.
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This piece goes a long way to helping anyone understand some of the issues at stake, regarding data we generate, how it may be used, but more importantly the moral and legal implications.
Here is one more story in the ever-growing list of even creepier data collection, prediction, and algorithmic bias that poses more ethical questions than I can even count.
I have grown over the course of my career as a teacher to increasingly believe education should adopt an element of the medical profession's Hippocratic Oath, primum non nocere (first, do no harm).
This story might is a dark view of the nascent possibilities that already exist. We don’t even have the metaphors to make sense of some of this stuff, at least beyond a superficial level.
This story is no doubt just the beginning of a deep new wrinkle in a much longer and larger story that is unfolding in real time. The 13-minute video embedded in this story is also well worth the screening.