This week’s reading, “Ethical challenges of edtech, big data and personalized learning: twenty-first century student sorting and tracking” by Jolene Jesse and Regan, describes the difficulties of education nowadays. After we have developed the technology, we all have a chance to learn online, such as opening learning and distributing learning; this not only increases the conventional learning knowledge but also demonstrates the lousy side of learning online, which is the privacy issue. The article mentions that “Personalized learning” violates six different ethical concerns, example, “information privacy, anonymity, surveillance, autonomy, non-discrimination, and ownership of information (Regan & Jesse, 2019）.”
In my perspective, things always have two sides. The good side of personal learning is using big data to customize a suitable plan for you to study. This is a helpful tool to help us become better. The lousy side which artificial intelligence has the risk of violating your privacy. Standing a three-person view of point, I would agree with using big data to collect our information and classify it for analysis because those data are essential to developing this society. Moreover, we have many policies to ensure our information is not misused.
However, I saw the case that happened in InBloom. InBloom collected personal information about students and revealed it to every teacher, which I think is incorrect. They even divide the students into different boards that are controversial, which I don’t think is better for their management. I don’t think the teachers at the school are a third party and should not have the right to view detailed personal information about the students directly.
I learned from this article that personalized learning is not bad when we have a complete legal system in place. Because I think personalized learning is an essential tool to drive up the quality of society.
Reference:
Regan, P., & Jesse, J. (2019). Ethical challenges of edtech, big data and personalized learning: Twenty-first century student sorting and tracking. Ethics and Information Technology, 21(3), 167-179. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-018-9492-2
11 Comments
I agree with you that personalized learning is definitely the trend of future learning. This allows students to play to their strengths more, rather than spoon-feeding. But we will also face many problems, including students’ privacy, academic integrity and so on. But laws will gradually improve, and so will blended learning.
I agree with you that personalized learning is definitely the trend of future learning. This allows students to play to their strengths more, rather than spoon-feeding. But we will also face many problems, including students’ privacy, academic integrity and so on. But laws will gradually improve, and so will blended learning.
Thanks for sharing your comments, Moky. I agree that the laws will gradually improve, especially protecting users’ privacy. Hoping we all feel safe when we are using the internet.
Julie
Hi,
Your point is very interesting. Although I don’t know much about ARTIFICIAL intelligence, I learned some interesting aspects after your explanation.
Hi Zitong,
Thanks for your comments. I’m glad you learned more about artificial intelligence because of my post. It’s my pleasure.
Julie
Hi, Julie
I really agree with you that protecting privacy is really a very important thing, especially student privacy. Our privacy needs more respect and protection, the government should introduce more stringent laws, and we should usually pay attention to details to protect our private information.
The best
Lei.
Hi Lei,
I couldn’t agree more with your opinion. I think we are now still facing insecurity on searching online because our privacy is under monitored. However, I have no idea how to balance security and user’s privacy now. But I hope we all can wait for a better solution soon.
Julie
Hi Julie
I agree with the two-sided problem you talked about . Although using a large database to customize a suitable learning plan for us is an unprecedented and a great tool, the privacy issues revealed by it still cannot be ignored. Many problems derived from our life are caused by the leakage of privacy issues. This kind of problem is caused by the existence of large databases. We should also pay attention to the privacy issues caused by it when we enjoy the convenience it brings to us.
Hi Yilin,
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I personally think big data brings more good than bad. But the downside is that the invasion of our privacy seems to destroy all the benefits that big data brings at once. I don’t think people are doing a good job of addressing the bad things that come with big data. It’s just a matter of how people use big data for good.
Julie