Ben Williamson questions whether the misuse of algorithms and big data collection can affect the way the public perceives education technology and hence resists it. He gives a number of very significant examples of how technologies and algorithms can go wrong. Some of these cases feature systems that had never been tested before or others which question the issue of privacy with data collection practices.
He describes a number of studies looking into ways of collecting ‘intimate data about the bodies and the brains of students’ such as DNA IQ tests based on saliva tests and neuroptimized education platforms that collect data ‘leaking’ from children’s brains through brain bands. These systems are able to make predictions about children’s’ intelligence and attainment but how accurate are they or are they even ethical at all.
Ben Williamson, University of Edinburgh
Ben Williamson, Senior Researcher, University of Edinburgh
Through the Twitter Mob and the Critical EdTech Activists, do we experience an Edtech push-back? Why?
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