Seth Young

…unwilling to acknowledge this, let alone start imagining how to develop the appropriate antibodies. Too many folks that I love dearly just want to double down on the approaches they’ve taken and the commitments they’ve made. On one hand, I get it — folks’ life-work and identities are caught up in these issues.

So while “personalized learning” might be a powerful slogan for the ed-tech industry and its funders, the sweeping claims about its benefits are largely unproven by educational research.

Focusing on inBloom’s privacy implications, we can easily identify one key takeaway: the necessity of parental involvement and trust. As the Data & Society report points out, proponents of inBloom had “difficulty in articulating what…