{"data":{"ID":652,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477931692,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Student Voices: digital redlining and privacy","Handle":"student_voices--digital_redlining_and_privacy","ShortDescription":"Students from Macomb Community College examined the problematic status of privacy in post-secondary education. They identified standardized curricula, assessments, academic advising, and other forms of digital redlining that emphasize training over critical thinking. These findings are developing into a set of student-centered privacy principles that they will refine at Educon.","Description":"Faced with institutional policies that limit information access, rudimentary technology, and an advising program that restricted intellectual experimentation, students at Macomb Community College profiled the practices that invisibly reduce their choices.  They began with readings on privacy, security, algorithms, digital identity to discover how these processes work.  This established a thorough understanding of digital redlining, and their work exposed interesting facts: a profile of students who attend community colleges, a comparison of community college policies to \u201cregular\u201d university policies, and the biases of \u201csuccess\u201d programs. These issues constitute \u201cdigital redlining,\u201d and they continually revealed the role of surveillance in education, and emphasized the importance of privacy. \r\n\r\nBut students and their instructors went beyond discovering the threats to their privacy that are built into \u201cedtech.\u201d With help during a two-day visit from Bill Fitzgerald who directs the Privacy Initiative at Common Sense Media, the students created \u2013 and applied \u2013  a list of readings, online tools, and concepts useful to assessing the privacy practices that affect their lives. \r\n\r\nThis Educon Conversation will begin with a brief summary of the collaboration between students, instructors, and a large non-profit organization, and then in short summaries of their work, students will set out a key issue that has affected them. Each student will identify how these issues are affected by institutional type: high school, community college, and university. These student preludes to discussion will lead into demonstrations of privacy tools, and a \u201cwhat-I-did-for-wifi\u201d conversation to surface the presence digital redlining in education.","Link":["http:\/\/www.commonsensemedia.org","http:\/\/www.re-think.us"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Goal: to improve both the identification of places where digital redlining occurs and its connection to types of education. Special attention to privacy and surveillance.\r\n\r\nThe discussion begins with a summary of the questions that brought together a community college, a large non-profit devoted educational technology, and two instructors. Each of the student participants presents her\/his work on a facet of digital redlining in order to set a framework for further developing a set of privacy tools that can be applied to educational institutions.\r\n\r\nTo facilitate the conversation, participants are asked to have read the following:\r\n1.\t\u201cDigital Redlining, and Privacy\u201d (https:\/\/www.commonsense.org\/education\/privacy\/blog\/digital-redlining-access-privacy)\r\n2.\tPowerpoint explaining digital redlining: http:\/\/re-think.us\/Lightning%20talk%20final.pptx \r\n\r\nConversation starter: \u201cwhatidid4wifi\u201d: participants describe the oddest thing they\u2019ve had to do to obtain a wifi connection . . . and what the stakes were that made access so important.","Presenter":["Chris Gilliard","Bill Fitzgerald","Hugh Culik"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Macomb Community College","Common Sense Media"],"PresenterEmail":["hypervisible@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":78,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Student presenters will be attending thanks to the generous pedagogical and financial support of Common Sense Media.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}}