Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ With New Personalized-Learning Software, AltSchool Moves Into Public Schools

Stephen Downes

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More on AltSchool's pivot from running schools to selling personalized learning software as reported in December (more), including numerous criticisms of the company. AltSchool also reports that it has discontinued surveillance technologies that "included fisheye ceiling cameras and constantly running audio recorders to harvest massive volumes of data on its students." Not because they were wrong, of course, but because "the team has recognized that the utilities of some of those [data] is less than they had hoped for."

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