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#Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | #Education #Technologies: Data Collection and Unsecured Systems Could Pose Risks to Students
▻https://www.ic3.gov/media/2018/180913.aspx

The FBI is encouraging public awareness of cyber threat concerns related to K-12 students. The US school systems’ rapid growth of education technologies (EdTech) and widespread collection of student data could have privacy and safety implications if compromised or exploited.

The tech #elite is making a power-grab for public education – code acts in education
▻https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/new-tech-power-elite-education

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The FBI and the ‘ed-techlash’

The tech elite now making a power-grab for public education probably has little to fear from FBI warnings about education technology. The FBI is primarily concerned with potentially malicious uses of sensitive student information by cybercriminals. There’s nothing criminal about creating Montessori-inspired preschool networks, using ClassDojo as a vehicle to build a liberal society, reimagining high school as personalized learning, or reshaping universities as AI-enhanced factories for producing labour market outcomes– unless you consider all of this a kind of theft of public education for private #commercial advantage and #influence .

The FBI intervention does, however, at least generate greater visibility for concerns about student data use. The tech power-elite of Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Bezos, Powell Jobs, and the rest, is trying to reframe public education as part of the tech sector, and subject it to ever-greater precision in measurement, prediction and intervention. These entrepreneurs are already experiencing a ‘#techlash‘ as people realize how much they have affected politics, culture and social life. Maybe the FBI warning is the first indication of a growing ‘#ed-techlash’, as the public becomes increasingly aware of how the tech power-elite is seeking to remake public education to serve its own private interests.

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Why Playing Music Is Great For Your Brain #Infographic || Dotted Music
▻http://dottedmusic.com/2016/lifestyle/why-playing-music-is-great-for-your-brain

We live in an Internet age where people are constantly connected. People—from young children to older adults—are immersed in media at all hours of the day. Our culture is focused on finding the benefits among daily activities. On the news and online, we read new headlines and hear stories about the health benefits of drinking coffee or a glass of red wine everyday, the potential behind a trendy new diet, the mental benefit of daily exercise or yoga, the importance of physical education and sports in our school systems for the benefit of our youth, and so on and so forth.

FEATURE : #ManifestJustice art exhibit in Los Angeles

“Enough is enough. We demand more empathy, more accountability, more economic opportunity, more compassion, more dignity, more power and more opportunity for all. We demand healthier communities, which means more from each other; more from our school systems and more from our judicial systems.” Those are the words of Manifest Justice, the creative community exhibition. The exhibt, which took place last week - in Los Angeles’ gang affected Baldwin Village - featured protest posters, paintings, and three-dimensional works. Mostly focused on police brutality, the exhibition also touched on issues like education, racial justice, and LGBT rights. Programme coordinator Nijeul Porter says, “The idea is that art is at the center of social change". See some of the featured works below.

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▻http://www.afropunk.com/profiles/blogs/feature-manifestjustice-art-exhibit-in-los-angeles

#université #prison #investissements #art #priorité

Even Gifted Students Can’t Keep Up
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/in-math-and-science-the-best-fend-for-themselves.html

Not only do average American students perform poorly compared with those in other countries, but so do the best students, languishing in the middle of the pack as measured by the two leading tests used in international comparisons.

On the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment test, the most recent, 34 of 65 countries and school systems had a higher percentage of 15-year-olds scoring at the advanced levels in mathematics than the United States did. The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland all had at least twice the proportion of mathematically advanced students as the United States, and many Asian countries had far more than that.

Other tests have shown that America’s younger students fare better in global comparisons than its older students do, which suggests a disturbing failure of educators to nurture good students as they progress to higher grades. Over all, the United States is largely holding still while foreign competitors are improving rapidly.