After reading the article “Ethical challenges of edtech, big data and personalized learning: twenty-first-century student sorting and tracking”, I feel that the issue of personal privacy is becoming more and more important in today’s society. After reading this article, I feel that the issue of personal privacy is becoming more and more important in today’s society. With the impact of covid-19, the use of online learning has increased dramatically, and this inevitably brings privacy issues. Because now everyone’s personal privacy data is collected and analyzed, with the help of big data, individuals or companies who get this data can more easily analyze everyone’s personal habits and preferences, and they can also do better marketing according to everyone’s preferences. And in the article about the personal privacy issue because of personalized learning, I think personalized learning is something that brings benefits to students because Edtech enables more fine-grained and continuous observation of students The advantage of this is that each student can be taught in a way and with content that is appropriate to his or her ability, but this inevitably brings the problem of personal privacy. We can classify them into six categories: information privacy; anonymity; surveillance; autonomy; non-discrimination; and ownership of information (Regan & Jesse, 2019). And we can learn that Most education and legal experts agree with Elana Zeide who concludes that “FIPPS-based privacy protection is both ineffective and theoretically unsound in the education context” (2016, p. 107). But I think whether it’s edtech, big data, or personalized learning, these are all technological advances, and we can’t deny that these things are facilitating people in the vast majority of cases, so I think we need to have better regulators to protect people’s privacy from disclosure when we know there are these issues, rather than trying to deny and reject these new technologies. As the article concludes, “it is important not to oversimplify the discussions by grouping all concerns under the broad category of privacy. ” (Regan & Jesse, 2019), people need to improve the regulatory system as soon as possible and make the inadequate laws perfect so that they can effectively solve those problems and protect people’s privacy.

 

 

 

Alarcon, A., Zeide, E., Rosenblat, A., Wikelius, K., boyd, d., Gangadharan, S. P., & Yu, C. (2014). Data & Civil Rights: Education primer, produced for Data & Civil Rights Conference. Accessed March 15, 2016, from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542268.

 

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