🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Software to detect school threats online is costly but mostly ineffective.'
- One minute read - 54 words - kudos:This kind of social media surveillance has been bothering me for years. I’m happy it’s getting some attention, even if the impetus for that attention is such a tragedy. This is edtech and our discipline needs to treat it as such.
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