{"id":2847,"date":"2016-08-15T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:48:44","slug":"collecting-data-on-your-kids-in-the-name-of-personalized-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2016\/08\/15\/collecting-data-on-your-kids-in-the-name-of-personalized-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Data on Your Kids in the Name of Personalized Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a blog post by Diane Ravitch<\/a>, we actually thought the comments at the end were more interesting and informative:<\/p>\n

colomom – August 13, 2016 at 3:06 PM
\nAnother problem with online Machine Learning, (AKA Adaptive Learning, Personalized Learning) is the online programs collect hidden data about the student users, in order to get to know them, personalize the experience. This data goes way beyond simple answers of correct or incorrect, and algorithms can be used to detect personality, behavior, and ability to focus, to name just a few. <\/em><\/p>\n

Who sees and who uses this highly sensitive and predictive information? (It certainly isn\u2019t transparent to the student, parent or teacher.) Are the predictive analytics used fair or accurate? Will this predictive data be used in predicting job placement or future hires, as is already happening per the Wall Street Journal posted below? Another author asks, \u201cIs Personalized Learning\u201d too Personal\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a great tension between how software is tracking the outcomes and the learning that students are doing and what happens to that data,\u201d said Betsy Corcoran, chief executive and co-founder of EdSurge, an education technology news site that also sponsors conferences. \u201cWho owns the data? Who is responsible for making sure that data is not abused in some way?\u201d<\/p>\n

When Learning Gets Too Personal<\/a><\/p>\n

Privacy advocates are calling for transparency and regulation of these \u201cBlack Box\u201d or secret algorithms. The Federal Trade Commission agrees and has called on the industry to regulate themselves, asking for algorithmic transparency.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bottom line: Machines and algorithms should not be allowed to secretly predict people, period; but this is especially heinous when it is happening to children while at school under the guise of \u201cpersonalized\u201d learning.<\/p>\n

Wall Street Journal: Bosses using data brokers to predict applicants.
\nBosses Tap Outside Firms to Predict Which Workers Might Get Sick<\/a><\/p>\n

When Personalized Learning gets too personal. http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2015\/12\/9\/11621282\/when-personalized-learning-gets-too-personal-google-complaint-exposes<\/p>\n

FTC Data Brokers – Data Brokers – A Call for Transparency and Accountability<\/a><\/p>\n

A Call for Transparency and Accountability focuses on the first three steps in the life cycle of big data within that industry\u2014collection, compilation, and analytics. discusses how information gathered for one purpose (e.g online assessment or video evidence in data badge) could be compiled and analyzed for other purposes, such as for marketing or risk mitigation in hiring or insurance or line of credit.<\/p>\n

FTC – The Bias of Big Data: A tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?
\nBig Data – Understanding the Issues<\/a><\/p>\n

FTC – A Call for Algorithmic Transparency
\nA Call for Algorithmic Transparency<\/a><\/p>\n

HERE is another comment, but it was removed:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Digital learning is designed to segue into algorithm-driven workforce development.<\/p>\n

Competency-based education and digital learning approaches are intended to reduce a child’s accomplishments into series of “badges” that can be stored in online portfolios.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s workforce can look forward to a “lifelong learning” scenario where people are compelled to accumulate more and more badges (paying for-profit, online companies for the opportunity and racking up piles of student debt in the process) as they chase job postings dictated by coded skill sets.<\/p>\n

We need to make everyone aware that it’s not just academic skills that are being tracked. Social, emotional, and behavioral competencies are in the mix, too.<\/p>\n

That is why companies like Parchment (allied with Pearson) are working so hard to position themselves as arbiters of education and workforce credentials. http:\/\/exchange.parchment.com\/extend\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m kind of surprised this is news to you Diane as your son’s merchant banking company Raine Group, is one of Parchment’<\/a>s major investors. <\/p>\n

Alison McDowell
\nPublic School Parent
\nPhiladelphia, PA”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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