Student data mining: Parents deserve right to refuse
Unfortunately, states and school districts are embracing student digital badges, programs like i-Ready, adaptive computer-based education and other Ed-Tech products in exchange for money and/or one-on-one devices. The growing focus on data mining our children’s personal information, sentiments, social/emotional information, even creating “predictive” profiles, is something parents deserve the right to refuse for their student.
In Consider Yourself Warned, Deb Herbage explores K-12 data mining and the grave threat it poses to student privacy. Re-blogged with permission:
If you were walking down the street and a stranger stopped you and asked you to hand over your driver’s license and social security card….would you? Of course, you wouldn’t! Those two items contain extremely personal information – YOUR personal information. Your driver’s license has your full name, your picture, your birth date, a unique number (in some state’s it could be your social security number), your address, your height and weight, any restrictions for driving a vehicle and even your eye color. How about if you put your wallet down for a few seconds and a stranger snatched it, essentially stealing your information. Wouldn’t that make you feel violated? You would have to start the whole process of canceling your credit cards, getting a new driver’s license and possibly putting a hold on your credit. How about if that same stranger who Continue reading: Student data mining: Parents deserve right to refuse | The Edvocate Blog
