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• 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 defini … More

  

  Fred Haas

  

  Writing as a Tool for Reflection

  edutopia.org - Laura Lee

  Setting aside time for regular writing practice is a way to process the Tilt-a-Whirl that is teaching, writes Justin Minkel, a first- and …

• 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.

  

  Fred Haas

  

  A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies Trustworthy

  The Atlantic - Jack M. Balkin

  Doctors 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 where we live, work, and play. And they in turn provide us with a window to the world, shaping what …

• 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).

  

  Fred Haas

  

  Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm

  psychologytoday.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 …

• 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.

  

  Fred Haas

  

  How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar

  WIRED - Andy Greenberg

  Blackouts in Ukraine were just a trial run. Russian hackers are learning to sabotage infrastructure—and the US could be next. The clocks read zero …

• 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 scre … More

  

  Fred Haas

  

  Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

  The Guardian - Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison

  Whistleblower 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 winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech …