Minding Our Own Data
Bob Sprankle,
Bit By Bit,
Nov 10, 2011
More on the whole idea of our lives being recorded by Facebook or other social networks. Bob Sprankle spends some time imagining the various ways data could be collected. For example, "what if each student wore some type of sensor and a teacher could actually identify how often he/she spent time with each student." Or "moving into collecting data on which students get called on most frequently." The key question, though, is to what use the data would be put. It could be invaluable to a teacher seeking to improve his or her own performance, or to a student looking to increase his or her knowledge. Or it could be used as a weapon by parents or administrators seeking to punish teachers, or by teachers as a means to support disciplinary action against children.
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