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In ed tech, schools are the customers, but students are the users.

In the start-up world (including in ed tech), the true customer is the investor, who merely needs to be convinced the project is worth taking a flier on.

Max Ventilla of AltSchool was previously “Head of Personalization” at Google. Jose Ferreira has a Harvard MBA and was managing director of new markets at Kaplan. Adam Braun of MissionU did have a connection to education, but it was as a fundraiser for his non-profit Pencils of Promise which focused on building schools in impoverished areas of foreign countries

The story of someone who claims to be able to revolutionize a complex field without possessing relevant expertise seems to have some parallels in education technology.

as developer Vijith Assar puts it, “the content and mechanisms [of online annotations] could end up owned by a single for-profit tech startup.” Assar suggests an “open-source software project,” or something “handled by a standards body.”)

Public support for higher education is declining—in both dollars and respect—while Silicon Valley companies and other for-profits have moved in. Put simply, colleges are following the money.

Rather than shun the "tyranny of relevance" — a concept within the liberal-arts community that refers to the need to demonstrate tangible benefits of humanities-research funding — we should embrace it.

The need to understand the human dimensions and impacts of those advances, as well as the basis for making many of the ethical decisions that should guide their use, has never been greater.

First, what has happened, as in time that students spend on tasks, clicks and downloads. Second, what does it mean for a student’s learning, as both formative and summative assessment.

But this framing also rises from our embrace of a technological solution to a pedagogical problem.

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Faculty members may not stipulate on the syllabus how they treat their students (although they probably should), but their practices are as much a form of pedagogy, and arguably more so, than any list of required texts, assignments, or due dates.

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all possible future uses of these data, since those uses are not fully known yet, or even knowable.

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Arizona now uses some 800 data points — on academic performance, financial aid, and use of the university’s course-management system, among other things — to identify which students are most at risk for dropping out. Those predictions are about 73 percent accurate from the first day of classes, with the accuracy rate improving over time, according to a university official.

information about me will be used to evaluate the behavior of other people is a question we don’t know how to ask very well.

When it comes to collecting student data, the notion of informed consent is simply not a part of the model.

That is the point of ideas like predictive analytics and plagiarism detection: using data generated by some people in the past to predict and understand the behavior of other people in the present or future.

Such developments should make us question the growing number of education-technology practices now in place at colleges across the country.

students often provide the raw material by which ed tech is developed,

let users pay for their services as an alternative to relying on ads.

We normally acknowledge, however grudgingly, that writing must betaught and continue to be taught from high school to college and perhapsbeyond. We accept it, I believe, because we can see writing, and we know thatmuch of the writing we see is not good enough. But we do not see reading.We see some writing about reading, to be sure, but we do not see reading.

Students are simply not in the same place at the same time anymore, and technological interventions can help recreate some of that social loss if managed effectively.

Practitioners have to interpret the machine learning-based results. If not, universities are going to be driving their strategies toward machine learning-derived outcomes that might not impact student success.

it still takes good old-fashioned qualitative work with faculty, staff and students to really understand the answer the machines might be giving us

Instead of adaptive learning playing the role of supplemental tool -- and a very good one in many cases -- these technologies could be sold off as a cheaper, faster and less contentious road toward a credential that will support advancement in the future work force.

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But third-party accounts currently don't have access to https://hypothes.is web pages, including the pages for creating and joining private groups.

you need a Public group to be the default one when the user isn't a member of any private groups

We considered giving third-party Canvas accounts their own set of groups that behave the same as first-party groups

(e.g. "canvas" rather than "hypothes.is")

anyone can read the publisher group

within the Canvas authority

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When Hypothesis is launched within Canvas: The Canvas app should create a private group, within the Canvas authority, for the Canvas course that the Canvas app is currently being used in, if such a group doesn't already exist. The Canvas user (student or teacher) who has launched the Canvas app should automatically be a member of the group. The Hypothesis client should be locked to this "course group" in the groups dropdown menu.

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LaPierre ranted at the Conservative Political Action Conference, “If they seize power, if these so-called European socialists take over the House and the Senate, and God forbid they get the White House again, our American freedoms could be lost and our country will be changed forever.” If someone were mumbling like that at a bar, the bartender would be obligated to cut off his drinks.

It’s about giving students an opportunity that most of them will never have again in their lives: the chance for serious exploration of complicated intellectual problems, the gift of time in an institution where curiosity and discovery are the source of meaning.

It means helping students immerse themselves in a body of knowledge, question assumptions about memory and orient themselves toward current events in a new way.

“They need to be challenged and inspired by the idea of our disciplines.”

No intellectual characteristic is too ineffable for assessment. Some schools use lengthy surveys like the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, which claims to test for qualities like “truthseeking” and “analyticity.”

All professors could benefit from serious conversations about what is and is not working in their classes. But instead they end up preoccupied with feeding the bureaucratic beast.

In 2006, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, convened by Margaret Spellings, the secretary of education at the time, issued a scathing critique of American higher education. “Employers report repeatedly that many new graduates they hire are not prepared to work, lacking the critical thinking, writing and problem-solving skills needed in today’s workplaces,” the Spellings Commission report complained.

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It can take days or weeks before anyone finds out what has been disseminated by social media software.

There are few solutions to the problems of digital discourse that don’t involve huge trade-offs—and those are not choices for Mark Zuckerberg alone to make. These are deeply political decisions. In the 20th century, the US passed laws that outlawed lead in paint and gasoline, that defined how much privacy a landlord needs to give his tenants, and that determined how much a phone company can surveil its customers.

To be clear, no public sphere has ever fully achieved these ideal conditions—but at least they were ideals to fail from. Today’s engagement algorithms, by contrast, espouse no ideals about a healthy public sphere.

Facebook doesn’t just connect democracy-­loving Egyptian dissidents and fans of the videogame Civilization;

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As Buzzfeed famously reported in November 2016, “top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.”

But at their core, their business is mundane: They’re ad brokers.

to a lesser extent, Twitter.

algorithmic public sphere

And sure, it is a golden age of free speech—if you can believe your lying eyes.

And most importantly for the account with which I am directly concerned here, it skews against exactly the sort of collective and interactive dialogic and discursive analysis on which much learning across the human sciences depends.

Humanities succeed as an institutional site, in the final analysis, only by making narrowly institutionalized humanities obsolete, by perhaps putting us out of business as an isolated, discrete institutional site and into the academy as engaged interlocutor pretty much across the curriculum.

public value

Not simply, note, truth to power, but truth in relation to power,

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Post-humanities speak to the ways in which the material and conceptual conditions establishing the conventions by which humanities once were structured and recognized no longer obtain.

The humanities require technological reflexivity and self-reflection as much as technology calls for critical humanistic engagement.

The point is to make out these values publicly in a much more robust and sustained way while also building curriculum more coherently, at least in part, around these capacities. Call this “diversifying the humanities portfolio.”

Nevertheless, the fee revenue generated and the relatively low per student costs in educating students in at least the traditionally conceived humanities make them less the dependent family member than is often assumed (Newfield 2008), though the heightened cost of digital humanities now pulls somewhat in the counter-direction.

the perception that in the past two decades academic humanities themselves became more introverted, more technical in language and modes of analysis, more specialized and self-concerned.

 

Security itself actually is justified less as a public good than as a sort of baseline Hobbesian individual right, a more general right from which the right to bear arms is derivative, and that for which the state supposedly was socially contracted into existence. Even something as basic as health has been reduced to individualized, private concern: the virulent attacks on “Obamacare,” accordingly, have been fueled by its supposed intrusion upon individual freedoms.

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So what is it: publisher or platform? Facebook seems to have finally recognized that it is quite clearly both.

“interacting with people is positively correlated with a lot of measures of well-being, whereas passively consuming content online is less so.”

Every publisher knows that, at best, they are sharecroppers on Facebook’s massive industrial farm. The social network is roughly 200 times more valuable than the Times.

For years, The New York Times resented that Facebook helped elevate BuzzFeed; now BuzzFeed is angry about being displaced by clickbait.

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Trump’s candidacy also proved to be a wonderful tool for a new class of scammers pumping out massively viral and entirely fake stories.

Inside Facebook, almost everyone on the executive team wanted Clinton to win; but they knew that Trump was using the platform better.

The point was partly to get feedback.

Instead, Facebook spent the spring of 2016 very busily fending off accusations that it might influence the elections in a completely different way.

In early 2016, its security team noticed an uptick in Russian actors attempting to steal the credentials of journalists and public figures. Facebook reported this to the FBI.

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it’s hard to imagine how Facebook could exist if it were liable for the many billion pieces of content a day that users post on its site.

Humans are social animals. But the internet is a cesspool. That scares people away from identifying themselves and putting personal details online. Solve that problem—make people feel safe to post—and they will share obsessively. Make the resulting database of privately shared information and personal connections available to advertisers, and that platform will become one of the most important media technologies of the early 21st century.

We will not require a child to provide more information than is reasonably necessary in order to participate in an online activity.

We may disclose any and all personal information collected from a Child to the parent or teacher who registered for the service in connection with such Child.

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Operating it is not free. One of the steps that the organization made to save it from potential insolvency was to put a lot of the work behind a paywall. I don’t like it, but I get it. And it worked. The IMS appears to be much healthier now and has produced some of its best work in a very long time. Life is about trade-offs.

I have been arguing for some time that Caliper should be used as a data interoperability exchange standard between apps that operates through the LTI window

LTI Advantage can also enable the tool provider to give the LMS links that support single sign-on to specific places within the tool,

then no amount of coolness will matter.

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your student roster in Perusall will automatically populate as students each launch into Perusall from the LMS for the first time.

create Perusall courses through the LMS

without having to log into Perusall separately

If they log in to Perusall directly (i.e., at perusall.com), then they will be seen as a second user.)

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University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) Literature in Context: An Open Anthology Project Director: John O'Brien Co-Project Director: Tonya Howe, Marymount University Co-Project Director: Christine Ruotolo, University of Virginia Outright: $72,542 To support: Development of a working prototype for an open-access, curated, and classroom-sourced digital anthology of British and American literature in English (1650-1800).

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can subside. Digital Humanities is still in its infancy. But its ability to serve as a driver of innovation could become threatened as “doing the humanities digitally” become

created by working across media tends to collapse differences and create an illusion of frictionless exchangeability. We sit with books in front of us, typing notes into files, w

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learning pioneers would be able to experiment and innovate by hooking apps and other functions onto the LMS.

understanding of science and their capacity for responsible work and citizenship

In the C.R.E.A.T.E. (Consider, read, elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, think of the next experiment) approach (Hoskins et al., 2007), students learn to think of themselves as scientists

The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) and Hypothesis have partnered to meet this challenge by developing a new way to cite, supplement, and share the data underpinning published work.

ntelligent tutoring systems (ITS) and related activities that narrowly scope learning tasks

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This continued design effort will attempt to challenge the imposed artificial timeframes, so as to continually engage course alumni, nurture a sense of sustained community, and foster boundary-crossing across cohorts of students. When an LMS closes, learning could continue, so could connections formed in or for learning. 

Slack provided a replacement of traditional threaded discussion forums

In addition, to negotiate the public--private boundary, the designer-instructor allowed course registrants to annotate either publicly or in a private Hypothesis group---both using a same course hashtag (Goal 4).

portability of posts not widely supported in threaded discussion forums (Goal 2)

tags could be used to bring together Hypothesis annotations that are potentially scattered in different webpages

discourse of varied publicity---private in a dyad, public in a private group, public to external communities---could have their unique strengths in fostering cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of discourse.

While a traditional discussion forum is separated from the objects being discussed, a more powerful discourse environment is able to incorporate various web objects into discourse to maintain its contexts.

threading structure of discussion forums leads to branching and increasingly fragmented conversations, with repetition and duplication appearing in different threads

self-organization of discourse participants around ideas

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It’s just that with companies like West Louis, the seams show, literally and figuratively.

What Ganon does is pick suppliers he’ll never know to ship products he’ll never touch. All his effort goes into creating ads to capture prospective customers, and then optimizing a digital environment that encourages them to buy whatever piece of crap he’s put in front of them.

narrowly scope learning tasks;

(a) learning management systems (LMS) or massively open online courses (MOOCs) that primarily organize, coordinate, and deliver resources (e.g., syllabi, video clips, quizzes);

diverse learners

distributed digital environments

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the design of the next generation of digital learning environments for science,

students will work collectively to build scientific understanding

bring school science into closer alignment with real-world science through deeper connections to public scientific discourse.

embedding local examples

permanent access to their course materials,

do not benefit personally from adopting a given publisher's book

NOTE for LTI providers: Since developer keys are scoped to the institution they are issued from, tool providers that serve multiple institutions should store and look up the correct developer key based on the launch parameters (eg. custom_canvas_api_domain) sent during the LTI launch. For open source Canvas users, you can generate a client ID and secret in the Site Admin account of your Canvas install.

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Annotation made ideas that could have simply died in print live on and flourish collectively.

publicly available on the web annotation platform, Hypothesis,

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I prioritize reading first, and online discourse second

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What about FERPA? The student is controlling how much information is out there. Similar to a public blogging platform being run by a university, FERPA only requires that student records (and what constitutes a “record” is debatable) not be public unless a student gives permission. In this case if the student wanted to sign up and lock down their hosting they can certainly do that, no one is requiring them to make their information public. This also comes back to our strict privacy policy (see previous question)

In order to assess and document the level of compliance, completion of this information by an authorized representative of the supplier organization will provide the University of Colorado Procurement Service Center, and the campus affiliates it serves, with knowledge regarding the level of compliance and satisfaction of this policy and related standards with respect to the offered products and services.

There is a habit in tech culture of saying that the latest app is “democratizing” whatever it happens to do. This is lovely, but best not to confuse it with actual democracy. Democracy is about participation with control, freedom with accountability, privacy with transparency. Tech companies tend to pick and choose from that list rather inventively.

As in Slow Food—with its unhygienic soil, disorderly farmers’ markets, and inconvenient seasons—the annoyances of Slow Computing have become pleasures. With community-made software, there’s no one to blame but us, the community. We’re not perfect, but we’re working on it.

One of the requirements of the program is that schools create a Student Tech Team to co-design technology policy, help lead the pro-gram roll-out, and serve as advisors and troubleshooters throughout the program. Giving stu-dents co-ownership of the program increases engagement and reduces disciplinary issues.

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Even when efforts are deployed with the explicit inten-tion of serving disadvantaged youth, learners who are part of more entitled, tech-savvy, and highly edu-cated families take advantage of new programs and opportunities more aggressively, and at higher rates.

Affluent students use the same tech-nologies to support richer forms of learning with greater adult mentorship.

When new educational tech-nologies spread beyond progressive developer and early adopter communities, the weight of existing institutions and norms can squash their disruptive and transformative potential.

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