[MyData & Open Data] [Open-education] The Quantified Student

Thu Sep 18 16:56:46 UTC 2014

Thanks Sander, 

This is really useful. There is new California Law in the works (I think) for the end of the month to address this issue.  Parents really upset about domestic issues, behaviour problems, learning difficulties etc being sold and shared beyond the performative educational context.   Its a big topic at MIT (where I am today) and here is an article about it. 

http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N38/edprivacy.html

- Mark 
On 18 Sep 2014, at 11:08, Sander van der Waal <sander.vanderwaal at okfn.org> wrote:

> Sorry for cross-posting but I think this may be interesting to some of you on this list too: 
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> From: Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>
> Date: 18 September 2014 17:03
> Subject: [Open-education] The Quantified Student
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> Some of you might be interested in this...
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> Marketplace is running a series on student data "how it’s gathered, how it’s used, and, most important, how it is protected".   
> http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/navigating-data-driven-education
> http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/day-life-data-mined-kid
> http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/how-student-data-improves-lunch-line
> http://www.marketplace.org/content/lc-privacy-infographic - infographic on quantified student
> http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/youre-invited-come-chat-about-studentdata
> Amazing claim from Learning company Knewton: “We have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has,”  “We literally have more data about our students than any company has about anybody else about anything, and it’s not even close.”
> And quite a lot of this data is being sold: "A study released last year (in the US) by Fordham Law professor Joel Reidenberg found that very few school districts explicitly restrict the sale or marketing of student information in contracts with service providers."
> They are also hosting a twitter chat tonight - We’re hosting a Twitter chat - tonight from 5-6 p.m. PST. The hashtag is #studentdata. 
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