{"id":8134,"date":"2018-09-23T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2018-10-01T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:08:35","slug":"your-child-is-the-product-the-cost-of-opting-out-of-edtech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/your-child-is-the-product-the-cost-of-opting-out-of-edtech\/","title":{"rendered":"“Your Child Is the Product”: The Cost of Opting Out of Edtech"},"content":{"rendered":"

With school back in session, eLearning Inside <\/i>readers frequently return to old articles that bear on current goings on. One of the most-read previously published article this month has been the first of a two-part investigation into Summit Learning<\/a>, a project0-based personalized learning curriculum, which includes a platform developed in part by a team of Facebook engineers with funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Like Facebook, the platform is free and collects user data, though to a far lesser degree. (Summit Learning does not sell student data to third parties or use it to target ads.) As Facebook and other big tech companies offering free services have fallen under public and government scrutiny over their handling of user data, parents and educators have grown concerned that their children are being used for extra-educational purposes. They\u2019ve heard the saying countless times, \u201cIf you\u2019re not the customer, you\u2019re the product.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

While the phrase continues to be used frequently, many have described how hollow it can ring. Tech Dirt\u2019s <\/i>Mike Masnick, quoting Derek Powazek, details<\/span><\/a> how a company\u2019s business model neither predicts nor correlates to how they treat their users. Following the fallout of Cambridge Analytica last spring, Slate\u2019s <\/i>Will Oremus put together an exhaustive history<\/span><\/a> of the phrase\u2019s origin and its use in describing big tech, while commenting on its tenuous relation to reality. (\u201cCynics might not believe it, but Google and Facebook didn\u2019t adopt the free model in order to serve advertisers. On the contrary, they adopted the advertising model as a way to keep serving their users for free.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n

Data Collection, Google, Summit Learning, and Many, Many Others<\/h1>\n

But despite these dismissals, there are <\/i>reasons why one wouldn\u2019t want themselves or their children to be products. A big one would be cybersecurity. As Summit Learning states on their site<\/span><\/a>, they collect and store student data such as first and last name, birth date, race and ethnicity, phone number, email, socioeconomic status, academic performance, attendance, student generated content, first and last name of guardian, and guardian\u2019s phone, and email. <\/span><\/p>\n

Many schools, of course, also collect and store the same data. And while Summit Learning\u00a0 <\/span>cloud accounts mark a bigger prize for hackers, it\u2019s highly unlikely an individual school or district has equivalent security protections in place. They might even still use in-house servers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s another reason to avoid the status of \u2018product,\u2019 which might be described as privacy. Learner privacy is federally legislated in the U.S. because voters value it. People don\u2019t want their kids\u2019 actions in school to help Google develop their products. They don\u2019t want third-parties watching and learning from their child\u2019s behavior, and that is 100% valid. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is valid to go to efforts to ensure that one\u2019s child does not become a product. But parents often don\u2019t realize the cost of that privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cost of Opting Out<\/h1>\n

Let\u2019s take Google as an example. If informed parents, wishing to ensure their kid doesn\u2019t become the product, opt out of G Suite for Education, then it goes without saying their child doesn\u2019t have a personal Gmail account. They don\u2019t use Google Docs, don\u2019t have a YouTube account, don\u2019t store files on Google Drive, don\u2019t use Hangouts, and certainly don\u2019t use apps downloaded from Google Play which, researchers found<\/span><\/a>, serially violate the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). <\/span><\/p>\n

The same will go for Facebook, its subsidiaries, and the many, many other tech companies that don\u2019t have the will or the ability to develop the incredibly protective privacy policies espoused by companies like Apple, Microsoft, and the few others. <\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, parents will need to place their kid on a low-tech learning<\/em><\/span> path. They might be high-achieving, progress through high school to the highest levels possible and enroll in AP or IB courses. But their knowledge of the online world will be seriously lacking. Without proper instruction, they may graduate as a fluent foreign language speaker while operating as functionally illiterate in the digital sphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not an ideal situation, but it is a real one. While the first part of our investigation into Summit Learning is read by thousands, the second part<\/a>, which details the numerous educational merits of the platform, goes unnoticed. Fear is often the strongest motivator.<\/span><\/p>\n

Featured Image: Annie Spratt, Unsplash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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