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recent bookmarks from mcmorganHow To (Hypothetically) Hack Your School's Surveillance System | Gizmodo2019-12-29T16:21:58+00:00
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/12/how-to-hypothetically-hack-your-schools-surveillance-system/
mcmorgan Balan listed off several easily foreseeable scenarios in which relatively untested school-wide surveillance systems put data in the hands of faculty. An evildoer can carry out a man-in-the-middle attack on any network, injecting downloads with malicious code. An impersonation attacker could spoof a Bluetooth identifier. A bad teacher with access to location data could stalk a student; a good teacher with a dumb password could be easily hacked. “Say I’m a teacher, and my password is Whitney123,” Balan postulated. “Arguably, out of ten thousand students, someone is going to try that password.”
> If school surveillance looks anything like school security, he says, a “password123” blunder ranks high on the list of probabilities; Balan calls the present state of security tech in public spaces like hospitals and university campuses “a disaster.” “The software and operating systems are outdated, and passwords are leaked,” he said. “Surveillance cameras are on the same network as other computers, and the access to that network would be the word ‘password.’ And by no means was this an isolated case.”
It’s an opportunity for guerrilla theatre. How about hacking a classroom to show all students present all the time. How about sitting down at all entrances to an admin building - blocking them in or out. How about spamming the D2L message system with Wham! lyrics.
> Vick countered with an offer to students:
>> If you are at one of these schools asking you to install apps on your phone to track you, hit me up for some totally hypothetical academic ideas on how one might dismantle such a system.
> We’re always up for hacker class, so Vick supplied Gizmodo with a few theories for inquiring minds.]]>education privacy d2l universities surveillance lmshttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:d5bce75f7b3b/Academic Freedom in a Triangle of Threats | ACADEME BLOG2019-03-25T14:12:40+00:00
https://academeblog.org/2019/03/24/academic-freedom-is-caught-in-a-triangle-of-threats/
mcmorgan EdTech aimed at producing a personalized experience for students undercuts the values of core curricula and education as a collective experience.
> Correspondingly, education is reduced to content and professors to content deliverers, and students have less opportunity to stretch beyond their own perspectives and acquire awareness of others’ differences. Student data is mined for profit by private industry and various incentives and constraints put pressure on educators to adopt EdTech for the purpose of generating this profit. The schools themselves don’t profit, but the false economy of whiz-bang automated efficiency makes EdTech difficult for most schools to resist.
More on the point,
> Dr. Hearn predicts that postsecondary educators will “increasingly be asked to prefigure course content in advance to make it more amenable to datafication and coding.” She concludes by warning that “the current free speech debates provide a familiar distraction from what is, in fact, an unprecedented assault on university autonomy by educational technologies and their proprietary, black-boxed forms of data extraction.”
This has been happening for years, with standardized templates for course descriptions and learning objectives that assist admins and data kids.
Resist. ]]>turnitin D2L edtechhttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:bd631ef5204a/A Flexible, Interoperable Digital Learning Platform: Are We There Yet? -e-Literate2017-05-28T22:37:31+00:00
http://mfeldstein.com/flexible-interoperable-digital-learning-platform-yet/
mcmorgan I believe incentives in the industry have changed enough that we could have a win-win scenario for all implementing parties.
Hmmm. Break into small groups. Discuss.]]>lms elearning D2L wikihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:57d45f711e49/Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School2016-07-02T13:13:51+00:00
http://hackeducation.com/2016/06/14/commercialization
mcmorgan Humans are not widgets. The cultivation of a mind cannot be mechanized. It should not be mechanized. Nevertheless, that’s been the impetus – an automation of education – behind much of education technology throughout the twentieth century. The commercialization of education is just one part of this larger ideology.]]>d2l edtech learning_analytics LMShttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:c43dd8ddff3f/'I Love My Label': Resisting the Pre-Packaged Sound in Ed-Tech2016-03-19T20:42:36+00:00
http://hackeducation.com/2016/03/18/i-love-my-label
mcmorgancorporateculture d2lhttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:50df24496ce8/The Fraught Interaction Design of Personalized Learning Products2015-08-26T19:28:46+00:00
http://mfeldstein.com/the-fraught-interaction-design-of-personalized-learning-products/
mcmorgande d2l prescriptivism predictivehttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:10988ca3d944/The Web We Need to Give Students — Bright — Medium2015-07-20T18:09:11+00:00
https://medium.com/bright/the-web-we-need-to-give-students-311d97713713
mcmorgandh d2l privacyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:8883d8f52605/68% of Statistics Are Meaningless, D2L Edition2015-06-25T02:55:07+00:00
http://mfeldstein.com/68-of-statistics-are-meaningless-d2l-edition/
mcmorgand2l edcraphttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:ed6c0c71cc7f/the Indie Web and resistance2014-12-26T22:05:49+00:00
http://2014trends.hackeducation.com/indie.html
mcmorgand2l edtechhttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:8c2928887f02/Beyond the LMS2014-09-08T02:55:15+00:00
http://www.hackeducation.com/2014/09/05/beyond-the-lms-newcastle-university/
mcmorgandh pedagogy d2l lms plehttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:592c51de0810/Watters: Student Data is the New Oil: MOOCs, Metaphor, and Money2014-06-22T15:02:45+00:00
http://hackeducation.com/2013/10/17/student-data-is-the-new-oil/
mcmorganfyc a&e d2l educationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:00217967fd72/Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: Education Data and Learning Analytics2014-04-24T16:23:17+00:00
http://hackeducation.com/2012/12/09/top-ed-tech-trends-of-2012-education-data-and-learning-analytics/
mcmorgand2l learningenvironments learningoutcomes learninganalyticshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:e859d361e897/A Domain of One's Own | University of Mary Washington2013-08-15T19:30:02+00:00
http://umwdomains.com/
mcmorganple fyc d2l bigdata identity privacy learninganalyticshttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:b0d5db96fccc/The Discussion Forum is Dead; Long Live the Discussion Forum2013-05-10T21:59:17+00:00
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Discussion_Forum_is_Dead.html
mcmorgandl de e-pedagogy discussions d2lhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:8b2914b08072/A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age | HASTAC2013-02-03T20:32:21+00:00
http://hastac.org/forums/forum-bill-rights-and-principles-learning-digital-age
mcmorgande academicfreedom academic_integrity dh d2l DigitalHumanitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:80558ed6723b/zombiescholar [licensed for non-commercial use only] / More Brains!2011-03-21T14:13:22+00:00
http://zombiescholar.pbworks.com/w/page/33240463/More-Brains!
mcmorganple mooc OER research scholarship2.0 D2L en3177https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:c7ac9d8d4cc8/Higher education and Web 2.02008-06-19T13:47:02+00:00
http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/higher-education-and-web-20/
mcmorganweb2.0 d2l twwthttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:cca1b55cd5db/The Chronicle: 1/5/2007: What Web 2.0 Can Teach Us About Learning2007-01-27T16:13:10+00:00
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i18/18b02601.htm
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