A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies TrustworthyThe Atlantic - Jack M. BalkinJonathan ZittrainDoctors and lawyers are prohibited from using clients’ information for their own interests, so why aren’t Google and Facebook? We tell online services what we like, who we love, what we are doing, and
A US university is tracking students’ locations to predict future dropoutsQuartz - By Amy X. WangAt the University of Arizona, school officials know when students are going to drop out before they do. The public college in Tucson has been quietly collecting data on its first-year students’ ID card
Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harmpsychologytoday.com - Peter Gray Ph.D. Many preschool and kindergarten teachers have told me that they are extremely upset—some to the point of being ready to resign—by the increased …
How An Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for CyberwarWIRED - Andy Greenberg The clocks read zero when the lights went out. It was a Saturday night last December, and Oleksii Yasinsky was sitting on the couch with his wife and …
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breachThe Guardian - Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-HarrisonWhistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the Brexit
Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' webThe Guardian - Olivia SolonThe inventor of the world wide web warns over concentration of power among a few companies ‘controlling which ideas are shared’ Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called for technology
A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case against Turnitinhybridpedagogy.org - Sean Michael Morris Students often find themselves uploading their content — their creative work — into the learning management system. Perhaps they retain a copy of the …
How big data is helping states kick poor people off welfareVox - Sean IllingTechnology is being used to target and punish poor people in America, according to a new book by Virginia Eubanks, a professor of political science at the University of Albany, SUNY. Here’s one example:
Inside The Virtual Schools Lobby: 'I Trust Parents'NPR - Anya KamenetzA free day at the aquarium! For Marcey Morse, a mother of two, it sounded pretty good. It was the fall of 2016, and Morse had received an email offering tickets, along with a warning about her children's
Classes should do hands-on exercises before reading and video, Stanford researchers saystanford.edu - By David Plotnikoff A study from the Stanford Graduate School of Education of how students best learned a neuroscience lesson showed a distinct benefit to starting out …
Government moves to scrap national standards and charter schoolsstuff.co.nz The Government has introduced a bill to scrap national standards and charter schools in New Zealand. However, charter school operators wanting to be …
Here's What Happened When the Supreme Court Ruled on Whether Students Can Protest During SchoolTIME - Olivia B. WaxmanHigh-school students nationwide have already taken to the streets in response to the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 dead. Pressing for a variety
The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’The New York Times - By MOLLY WORTHENI teach at a big state university, and I often receive emails from software companies offering to help me do a basic part of my job: figuring out what my students have learned. If you thought this task
The six big privacy concerns for edtechedscoop.com - Patience Wait Priscilla Regan, a professor at George Mason University, has been thinking and writing about privacy policy since the late 1970s. Her work has led …
Groundbreaking empirical research shows where innovation really comes fromVox - Matthew YglesiasGaps in opportunity for talented kids with low socioeconomic status don’t just hold back poor, female, black, or Latino children as individuals — they also impose potentially enormous losses to society
Second Guessing My Kids of Color?williamferriter.com - Bill Ferriter Blogger’s Note: This post is on race in America. It’s full of ideas I’ve been wrestling with for a long while. Like the issue, there’s nothing neat …
The Very Seriously Humorless Education of Studentswordpress.com - plthomasedd I am a junior in college during the early 1980s, sitting attentively in Dr. Richard Predmore’s upper-level English course; I am an English education …
James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of TurmoilThe New Yorker - Clint Smith“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963. (He published it in the
Understanding Poetry Is More Straightforward Than You ThinkThe New York Times - By MATTHEW ZAPRUDERDo you remember, as I do, how in the classroom poems were so often taught as if they were riddles? What is the poet really trying to say here? What is the theme or message of this poem? What does this
Does Bad “Grammar” Instruction Make Writing Worse?wordpress.com - drkhturner Most students’ writing—in fact, most people’s writing—could use some improvement: in content, organization, coherence, style, and editing. However, …
Why Revise? Because You Have an Authentic Audienceedutopia.org - Dylan Fenton Undoubtedly, the answer is that millions of people around the world would be listening to the speech, and thus he wanted his writing to be clear, …
Quote Symbol“The educated class has built an ever more intricate net to cradle us in and ease everyone else out.” https://t.co/KlVl7ERMF7Will Richardson on Twitter
The Big List of Class Discussion Strategiescultofpedagogy.com Listen to this post as a podcast: When I worked with student teachers on developing effective lesson plans, one thing I always asked them to revise …
The Guilty Secret of Distracted ParentingThe New York Times - By PERRI KLASS, M.D.Your phone can seem to call to you in an especially seductive way when you are a parent on playground duty. And one reason is, let’s face it, that playground duty can get old long before your children
For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Videoedsurge.com - Jeffrey R. Young For many students, participating in online class discussions feels like a chore—a box to check off for participation points rather than a lively …
Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime DisputeThe New York Times - By DANIEL VICTORA class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps
The Critical Thinking Skills Cheatsheet [Infographic]globaldigitalcitizen.org - Lee Watanabe-Crockett We'd like to share this critical thinking skills cheatsheet for you to use with your students. Get them asking questions on any topic!
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