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

Thu Sep 18 17:01:39 UTC 2014

(Looping the Open Education group in again)

On 18 September 2014 18:56, Mark Lizar <mark.lizar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Thanks Mark that's a really interesting article - good to see this issue
being addressed.

Sander

>
> - 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:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>
> Date: 18 September 2014 17:03
> Subject: [Open-education] The Quantified Student
> To: open-education at lists.okfn.org
>
>
>  Some of you might be interested in this...
>
> 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.
>
> Marieke
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