Don't Go 'Along' with Corporate Schemes to Gather up Student Data

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Title: Don't Go 'Along' with Corporate Schemes to Gather up Student Data
Language: English
Authors: Boninger, Faith, Molnar, Alex
Source: Phi Delta Kappan. Apr 2022 103(7):33-37.
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 5
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Data Collection, Social Emotional Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Privacy, Corporations
DOI: 10.1177/00317217221092232
ISSN: 0031-7217
Abstract: The Along digital SEL product marketed to teachers by Gradient Learning and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) promises to help teachers establish strong relationships with their students via an exchange of personal reflections. In so doing, it collects intimate personal information from students about their lives. Faith Boninger and Alex Molnar explain how the legal documents that govern Gradient's retention and use of students' data allow Gradient to retain students' de-identified data in perpetuity and use it for unknown purposes. They explain the privacy and other threats associated with de-identified data, and warn against allowing education technology providers -- particularly Gradient and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative -- unfettered use of it.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2022
Accession Number: EJ1333755
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:The Along digital SEL product marketed to teachers by Gradient Learning and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) promises to help teachers establish strong relationships with their students via an exchange of personal reflections. In so doing, it collects intimate personal information from students about their lives. Faith Boninger and Alex Molnar explain how the legal documents that govern Gradient's retention and use of students' data allow Gradient to retain students' de-identified data in perpetuity and use it for unknown purposes. They explain the privacy and other threats associated with de-identified data, and warn against allowing education technology providers -- particularly Gradient and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative -- unfettered use of it.
ISSN:0031-7217
DOI:10.1177/00317217221092232