Below are posts associated with the “Audrey Watters” tag.
🔗 linkblog: The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
Audrey Watters once compellingly argued that metal detectors are edtech. I think we now have a responsibility to treat AI nudifier apps as edtech, too.
🔗 linkblog: Are education and learning engineering problems? – George Veletsianos, PhD'
I’m grateful for George’s comments here.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Silver Bullet of Anti-Shooter Educational Technologies — Civics of Technology'
Solid thinking by researchers I respect and admire. I especially appreciate the point that no solution exists outside politics.
link to ‘The Silver Bullet of Anti-Shooter Educational Technologies — Civics of Technology’
🔗 linkblog: After Uvalde, social media monitoring apps struggle to justify surveillance - The Verge'
This article may make its way into a chapter I’m writing on how assumptions about education shape our understanding of what appropriate data collection looks like. As Audrey Watters has written, this kind of thing is very much edtech, and we need to be critical about how we deploy it. Even if it did work, I’m not sure the surveillance would be worth it. If it doesn’t work, all the more reason to be skeptical.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Personalized Learning Debates Put Too Much Emphasis on Technology, School Leaders Say'
Lots in here that reminds me of Watters’s comments on personalization.