Erik Ofgang reports that another former Yale student has joined the lawsuit against Google for allegedly scanning Gmail for advertising purposes despite assurances that they weren’t doing that: Ett is one of 38 Yale students and seven University of Connecticut students, as well as more than 800 students from 16 other universities including Harvard and New…
Category: Youth & Schools
Is predictive analytics a step too far in student assistance?
Jarrett Carter writes: The concept of academic intrusion isn’t novel, but the usage of monitoring technology invites a lot of questions and possibilities for things that can go wrong. Institutions should be extraordinarily careful not to paint a particular type of student with data points on academic performance, without the investment in the human resources to…
Australian high schools mull biometrics for attendance, libraries
Planet Biometrics reports: Plans by Western Australian high schools to use fingerprint and other biometric authentication methods for library loaning and attendance have been criticised by privacy advocates. Churchlands Senior High School plans to install biometrics finger scanning for library book withdrawals this year and Byford Secondary College and Atwell College have used biometrics to…
Maryland universities to use data to predict student success — or failure
Carrie Wells reports: Officials at the University System of Maryland have begun to analyze student data — grades, financial aid information, demographics, even how often they swipe their ID cards at the library or the dining hall — to find undergraduates who are at risk of dropping out. Law enforcement agencies, political campaigns, retailers and other universities…