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A Student’s Right to Privacy in the Age of Digital Learning Prepared for The Association for Media Literacy by Heidi Siwak Saturday April 6

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How do we protect the privacy of learners in the digital age? Who owns student information? What rights should students have to control their academic digital footprint?

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A Student’s Right to Privacyin the

Age of Digital Learning

Prepared for The Association for Media Literacyby

Heidi SiwakSaturday April 6

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A Digital Learning Revolution!

• Social Media and e-tools for collaboration are connecting learners globally.

• Students are conducting learning in publicly visible, digitally connected spaces.

• Teachers and students are documenting learning and co-creating digital footprints. • Fascinating and compelling projects are

everywhere!

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I’m a part of the Web 2.0 explosion.

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Blog: document learning and practices

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Tweet

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Hana Global Twitter Chat

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We collaborate globally on original projects

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We are globally connected.

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We create images of learning.

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We document our learning.

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We create media in digital spaces.

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My early concerns …

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Media Literacy Triangle

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Education’s Uncritical Adoption of New Technologies and Digital Tools

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Alarm Bells

Corporations through digital collaborative tools and educational partnerships are gaining unprecedented access to information about learners and learning.

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We work in the public sector, yet ..

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Google Certified Prime Minister?

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How do we protect the privacy of learners?

Who owns their information?What controls should students have over the digital identity constructed through the work they are asked to do because of school?Who profits from their work?What should educators be thinking about as we build globally connected classrooms?

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The architecture of the tools we use is political. They will evolve

our political system.

Cory Doctorow referencing Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Tracking Apps

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What are we doing?

• Turning student records that up until now were kept locked in the OSR, over to the private sector

• Creating digital dossiers of learners that have the potential to follow them for life

• We have no control over how that information will be used in the future

• Being done with very little supervision• Students have no real control over their personal

information• We have no idea of long-term consequences

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I love the idea of this app, but …

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What have your students agreed to?

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TOS: Terms of Service Agreements

• You understand that by posting information or content on the Website or otherwise providing content, materials or information to Company or in connection with the Services (collectively, "User Submissions"), Company hereby is and shall be granted a non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, and transferable right to fully exploit such User Submissions (including all related intellectual property rights) and to allow others to do so;

• however, Company will only share your personally identifiable information in accordance with Company's current privacy policy

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Acclimatizing Students to a Culture of Surveillance

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Political consequences as governments change

Employment consequences

Fear of exposure

Powerlessness

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Alarm Bell 2: Action Research

• Observe learning in action.• Document learning.• Share learning via blogs, twitter, video,

images• Construct messages about our classrooms,

schools and the people who inhabit those spaces.

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When does it cross the line into exploitation?

(The video for this slide was removed. It was a clip from an Action

Research year long project. The scene showed a young girl clearly not wanting to be filmed, yet powerless to stop the teacher from filming her

and uploading it to You Tube

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When the social and emotional well-being of the child becomes less important than the teachers’ and schools’ desire to document and share learning.

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It’s time for a step back.

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Our Responsibility

To protect children in the learning spaces we control, that includes digital spaces.

To respect students’ rights to privacy.

To protect anonymity as students grow and develop under our supervision.

To advocate for better privacy protections.

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It’s time for Student Digital Rights

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Control Over Their Work

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Privacy By Design

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HWDSB Learning CommonsBlogging platform hosted in house.

No analytics collected.

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What recourse do students have?

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How can students access and delete their personal data?

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How do we continue to build globally connected classrooms

and enjoy the opportunities that digital learning provides WHILE protecting the right to privacy that our children are

entitled to ?

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Links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/technology/web-privacy-and-how-consumers-let-down-their-guard.html?ref=technology&_r=1&

Cory Doctorow: Is it Time For a Privacy Revolution? http://blip.tv/alaoif/cory-doctorow-privacy-is-it-time-for-a-revolution-1087690 Important: how we conflate private and secrecy

Twitter: @privacycamp #privacy @privacydigest

Students tracked through RFID http://www.pcworld.com/article/2011352/texas-school-uses-rfid-badges-to-track-student-locations.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy

Common Sense Media: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators