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You could write an article about digital resources adapting themselves to match individual students' ability and learning speed, allowing every student to recei
by gyardley 12y ago
You could write an article about digital resources adapting themselves to match individual students' ability and learning speed, allowing every student to receive activities most likely to put them in a state of 'flow' -- and most everyone would think the monitoring required to do that was awesome.
Like most things, it's not the monitoring that's objectionable, it's how that monitoring is used.
- wyager 12y ago>Like most things, it's not the monitoring that's objectionable I vehemently disagree.
- ivan_ah 12y agoWhat about self-monitoring? Imagine a reader with reading analytics stored in localStorage, generating a "your progress" view? There could be an opt-in "share my anonymized stats" option, with the anonymization being done on the client. As an author, I can say that such "reading stats" would be very useful for content-dev purposes, but it should be up to the reader to choose whether they want to share them with the author.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoWhat do you mean, anonymizing on the client? Just log the IP address, and since this is a web thing, the User-Agent, there's your anonymity.
- wyager 12y ago>What about self-monitoring? Self-monitoring is awesome, but that's definitely not what's happening here.
- Houshalter 12y agoJust stating you disagree is not an argument and doesn't add anything. Optimizing education could be awesome. Nothing is wrong with statistics, even personalized ones. The problem is when they are used badly. For example, factoring them into grades creating an incentive to game them or unfairly punishing atypical cases.