I highly recommend Ben Williamson’s book Big Data in Education on many of these matters.
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Do you trust these companies to hold your data forever? Will they be in business forever? What is their plan to delete, obfuscate, destroy your photos after a specific time period?
For me, this comes back to being informed. The question I ask is convenience at what cost? I respect that I may not be able to own all my data, but there is something about such companies (Facebook included) that just doesn’t feel right in schools. It kind of reminds me of AltSchool. Do we need such surveillance, at all?
Agreed. I think it comes down to value for what they’re taking/using. I see/find value in what Google gives me via machine learning for their use in gMail, Calendar, etc.
I think it’s also complicated by the added element of the children. This is one of the spaces that is a challenge as we’ve all had the opportunity to decide whether or not we want to be a part of these spaces. Kids are now growing up automatically on Facebook, and embedded in a surveillance culture.
A fun read on these possible futures is Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/).