{"id":69326,"date":"2020-01-18T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69326"},"modified":"2020-01-18T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T17:29:32","slug":"just-because-we-can-doesnt-mean-we-should-another-unintended-consequence-appears-on-the-landscapes-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/01\/18\/just-because-we-can-doesnt-mean-we-should-another-unintended-consequence-appears-on-the-landscapes-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because we can, doesn&#8217;t mean we should. Another unintended consequence appears on the landscapes. [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>I&#8217;ll say it again, just because we can, doesn&#8217;t mean we should. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From the article below&#8230;we can see another unintended consequence is developing on society&#8217;s landscapes. I really wish the 20 and 30 somethings that are being hired by the big tech companies &#8212; especially at Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft &#8212; who are developing these things would ask themselves:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> &#8220;Just because we can develop this system\/software\/application\/etc., SHOULD we be developing it?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What might the negative consequences be?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Do the positive contributions outweigh the negative impacts&#8230;or not?<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>To colleges professors and teachers:<\/strong> <\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Please pass these thoughts onto your students now, so that this internal questioning\/conversations begin to take place in K-16.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-01-16-report-colleges-must-teach-algorithm-literacy-to-help-students-navigate-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Report: Colleges Must Teach \u2018Algorithm Literacy\u2019 to Help Students Navigate Internet <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If the Ancient Mariner were sailing on the internet\u2019s open seas, he might conclude there\u2019s information everywhere, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43997\/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">nary a drop to drink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That\u2019s how many college students feel, anyway. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A new report published this week about undergraduates\u2019 impressions of internet algorithms reveals students are skeptical of and unnerved by tools that track their digital travels and serve them personalized content like advertisements and social media posts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And some students feel like they\u2019ve largely been left to navigate the internet\u2019s murky waters alone, without adequate guidance from teachers and professors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Researchers set out to learn \u201chow aware students are about their information being manipulated, gathered and interacted with,\u201d said Alison Head, founder and director of Project Information Literacy, in an interview with EdSurge. \u201cWhere does that awareness drop off?\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThey found that many students not only have personal concerns about how algorithms compromise their own data privacy but also recognize the broader, possibly negative implications of tools that segment and customize search results and news feeds.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I&#8217;ll say it again, just because we can, doesn&#8217;t mean we should. From the article below&#8230;we can see another unintended consequence is developing on society&#8217;s landscapes. I really wish the 20 and 30 somethings that are being hired by the big tech companies &#8212; especially at Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,322,556,139,356,115,302,45,112,159,72,298,210,82,403,816,71,37,63,3,419,825,285,216,353,309,330,204,217,166,105,480,66,89,460,454,321,214,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-adjunct-faculty","category-amazon","category-apple","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-data-related-items","category-emerging-technologies","category-engineering","category-ethics","category-facebook","category-faculty-staff","category-future","category-google","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-microsoft","category-moralsvalues","category-platforms","category-political-science","category-programming","category-research","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","category-society","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-technology-general","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-united-states","category-universities","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69326"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69337,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69326\/revisions\/69337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}