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Whose Learning Is It Anyway

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Transcript

  1. Whose Learning Is It Anyway? WebWise 2013 Audrey Watters @audreywatters

  2. (as a metaphor)

  3. The machine won Jeopardy, but the human made the joke

  4. Metaphors matter

  5. The student? The institution? The government? Software providers? Who owns

    learners’ data?

  6. An artifact from fourth grade

  7. Is the data portable? Is it secure?

  8. Who has access?

  9. What data is being collected?

  10. Again, metaphors matter

  11. Can we build personal data lockers*? *also a metaphor

  12. Putting the learner at the center...