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May
2014
May
2014
Big Data. Tracking Students’ Grades Minute-By-Minute: Help or Hindrance
categories: learning analytics, technology
Flanagan, L. (n.d.). Tracking Students’ Grades Minute-By-Minute: Help or Hindrance? MindShift. Retrieved May 12, 2014, from http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/05/tracking-students-grades-minute-by-minute-help-or-hindrance/
For all the data and feedback they provide, student information systems interfere with learning.
“School isn’t about learning. It’s about doing well.”
The singular focus on grades that these systems encourage turns learning into a competitive, zero-sum game for students.
My notes:
the parallel with the online grades systems at K12 is the Big Data movement at Higher Ed. Big Data must be about assisting teaching, not about determining teaching and instructors must be very well aware and very carefully navigating in this nebulous areas of assisting versus determining.
the parallel with the online grades systems at K12 is the Big Data movement at Higher Ed. Big Data must be about assisting teaching, not about determining teaching and instructors must be very well aware and very carefully navigating in this nebulous areas of assisting versus determining.
This article about quantifying management of teaching and learning in K12 reminds me the big hopes put on technocrats governing counties and economies in the 70s of the last centuries when the advent of the computers was celebrated as the solution of all our problems. Haven’t we, as civilization learned anything from that lesson?
Plamen Miltenoff
May 12, 2014 at 3:09 pm (11 years ago)another excellent example about the “big data” idea going too far, too out control
To Know Thyself, Collect Data On Your Dog
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/05/11/310729038/to-know-thyself-collect-data-on-your-dog
Plamen Miltenoff
May 14, 2014 at 2:32 am (11 years ago)Cengage Learning Integrates Big Data Tools from Celebrus
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/05/09/cengage-learning-integrates-celebrus-big-data.aspx
Cengage Learning is the first major United States publisher to work with Celebrus Technologies.
Plamen Miltenoff
May 22, 2014 at 7:29 pm (11 years ago)What’s Really At Stake? Untangling the Big Issues Around Student Data
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/05/whats-really-at-stake-untangling-issues-around-student-data-privacy/
95 percent of schools and districts store their student information in the cloud
Fears around how student data can be improperly used fall into a few categories: data marketers, data breaches and unshakable data trails.
School administrators, the stewards of student data, must institute technical protections against the misuse of information