Below are posts associated with the “edtech” tag.

🔗 linkblog: Intel Wants To Add Unproven ‘Emotion Detection’ AI To Distance Learning Tech | Techdirt'



The only way to make emotion detection tech worse is, of course, to make it ed tech.




The focus on student learning in this year’s AECT reviews is good, but I worry that it blinds us to other important ed tech questions. I’d struggle to describe how surveillance, ethics, privacy impact student learning, but we desperately need that research too-or more!


🔗 linkblog: Proctorio subpoenas digital rights group in legal spat with student - The Verge'



Boo on Proctorio.




Every selling point on this cold call email for an ed tech product is a reason that I would never consider using it.


🔗 linkblog: A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students – The Markup'



Let me get this straight: Invasive surveillance isn’t enough, now companies are creating opportunities to cheat just so they can ding them and take credit for stopping it?


🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'



Doctorow tackles the grossest parts of ed tech. It’s a great read.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Tech Leaders Justify Project To Create Army Of AI-Controlled Bulletproof Grizzly Bears As Inevitable Part Of Progress'



But is it ed tech?


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'College Prep Software Naviance Is Selling Advertising Access to Millions of Students – The Markup'



Ed tech should not be ad tech.


🔗 linkblog: just read 'Ed Tech Usage is Up. So Are Parent Privacy Concerns'



Interesting read on an important subject.


🔗 linkblog: just read 'These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops | WIRED'



Heck of a story.


🔗 linkblog: just read 'ICO to step in after schools use facial recognition to speed up lunch queue | Facial recognition | The Guardian'



Why are people still touting facial recognition as a convenience?




Perk of having ed tech degree/experience in the era of COVID-19: I’m currently walking my mom through Zoom to allow for possibility of her offering distance piano lessons.




Responding to reviewer who has a specific picture in their head of what “good” edtech research “should” look like. Thus, they’re confused by things in my paper that I’m sure aren’t problems—but don’t fit that picture.




Getting in touch with my BYU roots in educational technology by applying for a grant to move to alternative textbooks for my Fall 2019 course.




I (an educational technology researcher) have just declined the opportunity to review for the journal “Cell Proliferation.” The weird thing is that it didn’t seem like the spammy requests from journals I sometimes get. Mistaken identity, maybe?