@studentprivacy.bsky.social
An account to help students and families advocate for their privacy at school
Good to know our schools are fooled by influencers the same way they tell us we are about make up or fashion or what to think
Schools are flooded with edtech. But it's not only sold to them. Emerging "edtech brokers" do intermediary work to build teachers' trust in edtech, synchronize their practices to platforms, and shape teachers' professional identities as pedagogic "innovators".
New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...
New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...
‘Enthuse and inspire’: edtech brokers and the affective construction of teacher innovation
Digital technologies interact in different ways with the professionality of teachers to ultimately reshape the most defining features of their job. In this article, we explore how edtech brokers, i...
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Good to know our schools are fooled by influencers the same way they tell us we are about make up or fashion or what to think
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Mark Zuckerberg is hawking AI friends. José Marichal (@josemarichal.bsky.social) says we need the next generation of technology tools to remind us of our humanity and the fragility of the human experience, rather than regarding relationships as commodities subject to the laws of supply and demand.
We Must Re-Negotiate the Algorithmic Contract | TechPolicy.Press
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hawking AI friends. José Marichal interrogates his vision for the future of technology and finds it lacking.
www.techpolicy.press
May 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Mark Zuckerberg is hawking AI friends. José Marichal (@josemarichal.bsky.social) says we need the next generation of technology tools to remind us of our humanity and the fragility of the human experience, rather than regarding relationships as commodities subject to the laws of supply and demand.
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we’ve been doubling down on integrity in our faculty… bsky.app/profile/mich...
How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
May 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
we’ve been doubling down on integrity in our faculty… bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Edtech isn’t regulated. It isn’t safe.
It is allowed to be sold into schools with no governance - regulators rely on consumers to complain.
It is a mess of data mining, adtech, surveillance and unusable tech.
Now with added “ai”
It is allowed to be sold into schools with no governance - regulators rely on consumers to complain.
It is a mess of data mining, adtech, surveillance and unusable tech.
Now with added “ai”
May 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Edtech isn’t regulated. It isn’t safe.
It is allowed to be sold into schools with no governance - regulators rely on consumers to complain.
It is a mess of data mining, adtech, surveillance and unusable tech.
Now with added “ai”
It is allowed to be sold into schools with no governance - regulators rely on consumers to complain.
It is a mess of data mining, adtech, surveillance and unusable tech.
Now with added “ai”
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Just a woman on the internet begging the @infocommission.bsky.social to stop edtech apps from having this kind of tracking on apps for CHILDREN. These are impossible to opt out of when you don’t have an account btw.
The ICO is supposed to stop this. Let’s get some enforcement and protect children
The ICO is supposed to stop this. Let’s get some enforcement and protect children
March 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Just a woman on the internet begging the @infocommission.bsky.social to stop edtech apps from having this kind of tracking on apps for CHILDREN. These are impossible to opt out of when you don’t have an account btw.
The ICO is supposed to stop this. Let’s get some enforcement and protect children
The ICO is supposed to stop this. Let’s get some enforcement and protect children
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Some people want AGi (a higher form of Ai than what we currently have that is basically the same as human intelligence) to happen so bad that they see it everywhere. www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/03/21/s...
“Stop Trying to Make ‘AGi’ Happen, It’s Not Going to Happen!” – EduGeek Journal
www.edugeekjournal.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Some people want AGi (a higher form of Ai than what we currently have that is basically the same as human intelligence) to happen so bad that they see it everywhere. www.edugeekjournal.com/2025/03/21/s...
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When people say they're using AI because they don't want to get professionally left behind in this era of tech I'm like you do realize the whole point of AI is to fire people. You're training the machines they're building to fire you
March 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
When people say they're using AI because they don't want to get professionally left behind in this era of tech I'm like you do realize the whole point of AI is to fire people. You're training the machines they're building to fire you
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This is hilarious 😂 they're helping "smaller orgs enhance safety" because this coalition is composed of the big organizations that have it down.
You can't make this up.
You can't make this up.
Ensuring user safety at scale takes massive resources. That’s why we’re excited to partner with ROOST—helping smaller orgs enhance safety, meet regulations, and compete. More safety, more competition, more user choice.
AND WE'RE HATCHED!
ROOST launches at the #ParisAIActionSummit, bringing together tech companies and philanthropies to deliver free, open-source safety tools. Join us 👉 roost.tools
ROOST launches at the #ParisAIActionSummit, bringing together tech companies and philanthropies to deliver free, open-source safety tools. Join us 👉 roost.tools
February 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
This is hilarious 😂 they're helping "smaller orgs enhance safety" because this coalition is composed of the big organizations that have it down.
You can't make this up.
You can't make this up.
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“AI for everyone” (with the exception of some cases) means surveillance, tracking, manipulation, loss of agency & choice, for the many and more power, money and influence to AI developers and vendors
February 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“AI for everyone” (with the exception of some cases) means surveillance, tracking, manipulation, loss of agency & choice, for the many and more power, money and influence to AI developers and vendors
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In Toledo, “living in subsidized housing now means being watched outside your home day and night by an officer you can’t see or speak to, thanks to the city’s contract with Fusus, a company whose controversial technology enables cops to access live streams from private camera networks”
‘Clearly Discrimination’: How a City Uses Fusus to Spy on Its Poorest Residents
Fusus’s technology allows police to tap into live feeds from public and privately owned surveillance cameras. In Toledo, Ohio, cops use the power to watch one particular type of location.
gizmodo.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In Toledo, “living in subsidized housing now means being watched outside your home day and night by an officer you can’t see or speak to, thanks to the city’s contract with Fusus, a company whose controversial technology enables cops to access live streams from private camera networks”
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At some point people are going to look back at this current era of education and wonder why there was so much emphasis on getting one type of screen out of the hands of students only to have so much time in the classroom be spent...staring at another screen.
January 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
At some point people are going to look back at this current era of education and wonder why there was so much emphasis on getting one type of screen out of the hands of students only to have so much time in the classroom be spent...staring at another screen.
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And how the school endorsed screens actually shared more data with the bad social media and harmed the children’s future more than the personal device screens did ……
At some point people are going to look back at this current era of education and wonder why there was so much emphasis on getting one type of screen out of the hands of students only to have so much time in the classroom be spent...staring at another screen.
January 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
And how the school endorsed screens actually shared more data with the bad social media and harmed the children’s future more than the personal device screens did ……
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As an educator, it’s increasingly difficult to name a professional conviction or pedagogical commitment that justifies the use of generative AI. The daily use of AI must not overshadow tangible actions to redress our climate crisis lest we further erode our position as trusted stewards of learning.
Once again asking what problem this technology has solved or is expected to solve to force us to endure this. www.fastcompany.com/91253026/air...
Air pollution from AI could surpass that of all the cars in California
Massive data centers power large language models but produce fine particles linked to asthma, cancers, and premature deaths.
www.fastcompany.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
As an educator, it’s increasingly difficult to name a professional conviction or pedagogical commitment that justifies the use of generative AI. The daily use of AI must not overshadow tangible actions to redress our climate crisis lest we further erode our position as trusted stewards of learning.
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Since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot, social media has been ablaze with angry messages, memes, and jokes about health care in the United States. Read more about how these reactions are fueling the debate on healthcare and CEO pay.
What the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Memes Tell Us
The internet has been completely obsessed with this case.
www.teenvogue.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot, social media has been ablaze with angry messages, memes, and jokes about health care in the United States. Read more about how these reactions are fueling the debate on healthcare and CEO pay.
Maybe they could deal with the way schools and society rely on smartphones- for check your hw, scan this, pay your bus fare etc.
And a bigger issue is edtech and the data it shares. But I guess smartphone bans make people feel good
And a bigger issue is edtech and the data it shares. But I guess smartphone bans make people feel good
More pressure being brought in the UK to ban social media for under 16s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some MPs want to ban smartphones for under 16s altogether news.sky.com/story/smartp...
And one UK MP on SkyNews this morning wants a phone designed just for under 16s
Some MPs want to ban smartphones for under 16s altogether news.sky.com/story/smartp...
And one UK MP on SkyNews this morning wants a phone designed just for under 16s
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Maybe they could deal with the way schools and society rely on smartphones- for check your hw, scan this, pay your bus fare etc.
And a bigger issue is edtech and the data it shares. But I guess smartphone bans make people feel good
And a bigger issue is edtech and the data it shares. But I guess smartphone bans make people feel good
Banning social media for U16 is pointless while they allow edtech apps to share confidential data and use tracking pixels on child accounts.
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
November 29, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Banning social media for U16 is pointless while they allow edtech apps to share confidential data and use tracking pixels on child accounts.
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
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“It does not service to children or their education to grievously oversimplify the nature of what a classroom is and what it’s like.”
As always - Guy Claxton with the voice of reason.
open.spotify.com/episode/3R61...
As always - Guy Claxton with the voice of reason.
open.spotify.com/episode/3R61...
Season 4 Episode 7: A Conversation with Professor Guy Claxoton
Play Conversations · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:20 AM
“It does not service to children or their education to grievously oversimplify the nature of what a classroom is and what it’s like.”
As always - Guy Claxton with the voice of reason.
open.spotify.com/episode/3R61...
As always - Guy Claxton with the voice of reason.
open.spotify.com/episode/3R61...
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Ready for some more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? We are!
Next up on the live stream:
@bcmerchant.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss the business model of “AGI”
Monday, December 2nd, noon Pacific
www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
Next up on the live stream:
@bcmerchant.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss the business model of “AGI”
Monday, December 2nd, noon Pacific
www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).
www.twitch.tv
November 29, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Ready for some more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? We are!
Next up on the live stream:
@bcmerchant.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss the business model of “AGI”
Monday, December 2nd, noon Pacific
www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
Next up on the live stream:
@bcmerchant.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss the business model of “AGI”
Monday, December 2nd, noon Pacific
www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
We are always disappointed to see “cyber security experts”suggesting that mobile phone bans or social media bans and age verification might be ok. They won’t. And they show how privileged some people are that they can’t understand the surveillance and harm behind all this
November 24, 2024 at 2:26 PM
We are always disappointed to see “cyber security experts”suggesting that mobile phone bans or social media bans and age verification might be ok. They won’t. And they show how privileged some people are that they can’t understand the surveillance and harm behind all this
We have been saying this for a long time
Please let this become a topic families can demand action on
Please let this become a topic families can demand action on
Education has naturally changed, and adapted over time. But, in recent years, the adoption of data-intensive technologies within school environments has been rampant. And it’s putting education at risk.
The (un)avoidable rise of Edtech in educational spaces
Education is a fundamental human right outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 26), which st
privacyinternational.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:15 PM
We have been saying this for a long time
Please let this become a topic families can demand action on
Please let this become a topic families can demand action on
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From unconstitutional searches, to emotional analysis technologies that have now been banned in the EU - learn more about the disturbing world of surveillance technologies in schools
Studying under Surveillance: the securitisation of learning
Increasingly, EdTech systems are less about teaching than about monitoring, security and ‘safety’ – although those aims are often mixed with wider educational claims.
privacyinternational.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:53 AM
From unconstitutional searches, to emotional analysis technologies that have now been banned in the EU - learn more about the disturbing world of surveillance technologies in schools
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“…some parents, advocates, and city officials want to see even stronger protections for student data, ensuring information like a student’s home address won’t aid federal agents in identifying undocumented students.”
NYC is revamping its student data privacy policy. Parents want stronger protections.
The Panel for Educational Policy was slated to vote on a proposed revision to a 2009 regulation concerning student privacy, but members want the public to weigh in.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:11 AM
“…some parents, advocates, and city officials want to see even stronger protections for student data, ensuring information like a student’s home address won’t aid federal agents in identifying undocumented students.”
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tell me about your parents oversharing about you on social media for research for my book xoxo docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Parents Oversharing
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November 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
tell me about your parents oversharing about you on social media for research for my book xoxo docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...