Personalized learning software: districts and schools pay for it, students use it. I wanted to investigate one software in particular to discover the ethical considerations of schools using this software and what students are thinking about it.
In brief conclusion, students should be brought into the decision-making process to democratize and pluralize their own curriculum...and schools should do their due diligence to ensure products they pay for are worthwhile.
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This paper was originally written for the class Big Data, Surveillance, Algorithmic Bias, and Ethics in Education Data Science at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Spring 2022.
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