I learned some surprising facts and important concepts from these papers. The paper written by Priscilla Regan and Jolene mentioned some events that cause my interests. It is undoubtedly true that the problem of privacy arises when big data techniques are increasingly used in education area. It is noteworthy that, however, education area is not the only one place where privacy is affected by data science. Likewise, a wide range of industries, such as retailing and social media, experience the issue of privacy as well. Since data science seems to be one of the future mainstreams, it could be foreseen that the issue of privacy keeps arising only. The suggestions are reasonable in principle, but I kind of disagree in that saying is always harder than implementing. For instance, the paper mentioned that the state of New York once transferred more than 2 million student records to InBloom, an E-learning company which had cooperation relationship with some states (Regan 2018, p. 168). I am kind of curious to think whether these 2 million students are current or past students, as well as whether these students gave permissions ahead of the transfer.
I also learned a lot from the works by Morris and Stommel. I agree that pedagogy is different from teaching and that some faculties in higher education seldom participate in pedagogical works (Morris & Stommel, 2018). Again, like privacy issue that mentioned above, saying is easier than changing. First, to most of faculty who work in universities, community colleges excluded, their primary duty is research. Teaching may not even be their secondary duty. As a result, they do not have high motivations and interests in developing pedagogical works. If a faculty of a course designs good contents, delivers good lectures, implements good exams, his or her skills are more than appreciated as far as pedagogy is concerned. In addition, because pedagogy focuses on discovery and active learning, it is necessary for teachers to set up relevant activities that let students grow up as well-rounded persons. So, in standard courses, apart from lectures and exams, we student usually have presentations, group project, individual report, experiments, and so on. Because, like mentioned above, teaching is of low motivation to most faculty, it remains doubtful how many faculty have willingness to develop a well-designed course.
Passphrases tips are helpful because these tips serve as good reminders and potentially avoid a lot of costs and troubles.
References
Regan, P.M., Jesse, J. Ethical challenges of edtech, big data and personalized learning: twenty-first century student sorting and tracking. Ethics Inf Technol 21, 167–179 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-018-9492-2
Morris, S. M., & Stommel, J. (2018). An urgency of teachers: The work of critical digital pedagogy. Hybrid Pedagogy.
Hi, Zitong
I love the idea of combining big data education and personal privacy to go research! I personally think that educators because of the need to repeat the teaching of similar courses, their knowledge reserves of similar courses will continue to increase, for how to help students understand the important knowledge points of the teaching methods will become more and more skilled, I believe that most educators are full of enthusiasm for their work and willing to prepare and improve their teaching content, but due to the reasons of online teaching, educators can not intuitively see the status of students, can not accurately help students who need help, This has also led to educators and students placing more emphasis on results than participation!
The best
Lei.
Hi，Lei
What you have said is a matter of great concern. Learning should be a process, although the result is also important, but also in the process of promoting communication opportunities between teachers and students.
The best，
Zitong Zhao
Hi Zitong Zhao,
You mentioned in your article that social media can also increase the disclosure of our personal privacy. I agree with you. With the popularity of social media, everyone has at least three or more kinds of social software, such as Twitter, Facebook, wechat, QQ, INS and so on. In the aforementioned social software, it was reported that users’ personal information was disseminated without their permission. Their ostensible purpose is to keep social media in order. But the fact that many companies profit by selling their customers’ privacy may be one reason why we often get phishing calls and emails. Therefore, I think the government should strengthen the supervision of social media privacy security.
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Mengqi Zhang
Hello，Mengqi Zhang
Yes, I think you are right. The government should do more to improve and stop this situation, and make corresponding protection measures.
The best，
Zitong Zhao
Hi Zitong,
I am totally agree that social platforms will increase information leakage. Some social platforms usually send a message that requires you to agree regulations before allowing you to log in to the App. After mandatory consent, consumers lose the right to interpret, and consumers do not know whether their identity information will be protect validly or not. I am also very interested in education issues. The attitude of the students and the attitude of the teachers go both ways. The knowledge conveyed by the teacher does not mean that all the knowledge is correct, nor does it mean that all the knowledge can be accepted by the students.
Hello，
Thank you for agreeing with my point of view. So it is very important for teachers and students to help each other in the teaching process.