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Kids Shouldn’t Have to Sacrifice Privacy for Education
Dipayan Ghosh, Jim Steyer, New York Times, 2018/12/17

Part of the issue with violating privacy in learning is that it's just creepy to have to give your personal information just to learn things. But the other part is less obviously a privacy concern, in my view, and more of a human rights concern. The authors write that people worry "about the fairness of college admissions processes that rely on student data profiles shared by personalized learning companies (and) the dispensation of financial awards including scholarships that are influenced by data that ... also covers categories like race, religion, address and whether they have 'impairments' like H.I.V. or depression." This is a valid concern, but to me the main objection here is how the data can be used, and it's this use that ought to be wrong.

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ESIL: A Learning Lens for the Digital Age
Maria H. Andersen, Busynessgirl, 2018/12/17

ESIL (like most such things) is in no way a 'lens' because it does not reveal reality so much as it creates it. Yet is is still a useful framework for categorizing different levels of detail in conceptsd as they relate to learning. ESIL stands for 'Existence, Supported, Independent, and Lifetime'. For example, for solving quadratic equations, a student only needs to know that the method of 'completing the square' exists. They only need to be able to look up 'factoring' through performance support. They only need to be able to apply quadratic formulas independently. But they do need to be able to solve quadraticequations using technology as a lifetime skill.

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