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Amazing as always. I was checking out the article on Instructure and Khan Academy joining powers. As a long-time user of products made by both companies, I am interested to see what is developed. But this quote caused me to be more than a little concerned:
“In Canvas,” Daly said, “teachers get great visibility into what’s happening. Teachers can say, ‘OK learning actually happened in this process.’ We have a lot of visibility on the engagement with content - how, when students engage content, information on how students are doing.” Daly continued, “when we start to bring all that information together with the Khan teaching content, we create a repository of information that teachers can use to modify their teaching delivery, student to student.”
“It is taking a cognitive burden off teachers, giving them time they can spend one-on-one with students – inspiring, mentoring and teaching, and creating more opportunity for collaboration, for in-person real engagement, student to teacher,” he said.
On the surface, this sounds like a win-win. But beneath the surface, these companies are getting access to the most detailed mental models of student learning in the history of education, and will absorb them into their data caches for undisclosed and unregulated uses. Think about it. Step-by-step reasoning printed out in a beautiful transcript; then plug the data back into the AI for further analysis. FERPA will struggle to keep up initially with these softwares. It will have to be modified to meet the challenges of these new technologies, but their most certainly will be an interregnum period. It will be interesting to watch how it all pans out. What we teachers have to think about in the coming days is not only how do we get the most accurate info about our students so we can make actionable changes to instruction but who ultimately controls the data?
Amazing as always. I was checking out the article on Instructure and Khan Academy joining powers. As a long-time user of products made by both companies, I am interested to see what is developed. But this quote caused me to be more than a little concerned:
“In Canvas,” Daly said, “teachers get great visibility into what’s happening. Teachers can say, ‘OK learning actually happened in this process.’ We have a lot of visibility on the engagement with content - how, when students engage content, information on how students are doing.” Daly continued, “when we start to bring all that information together with the Khan teaching content, we create a repository of information that teachers can use to modify their teaching delivery, student to student.”
“It is taking a cognitive burden off teachers, giving them time they can spend one-on-one with students – inspiring, mentoring and teaching, and creating more opportunity for collaboration, for in-person real engagement, student to teacher,” he said.
On the surface, this sounds like a win-win. But beneath the surface, these companies are getting access to the most detailed mental models of student learning in the history of education, and will absorb them into their data caches for undisclosed and unregulated uses. Think about it. Step-by-step reasoning printed out in a beautiful transcript; then plug the data back into the AI for further analysis. FERPA will struggle to keep up initially with these softwares. It will have to be modified to meet the challenges of these new technologies, but their most certainly will be an interregnum period. It will be interesting to watch how it all pans out. What we teachers have to think about in the coming days is not only how do we get the most accurate info about our students so we can make actionable changes to instruction but who ultimately controls the data?