Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Original Title: “Social capital” scrip? Fin-tech experiments with new forms of precarious “employment If you consider most activities
Manufacturing Consent: How to Engineer an Education Activist
If social media platforms can predict your behavior, advocacy groups can buy access to it. They also have the power to manipulate your actions –
Blockchain, Self-Sovereign Identity, and Selling Off Humanity
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Digital currency payments validated with biometric information like iris scans have been prototyped using refugee populations over the past few
Minding Our Health: The Nudge, Part Two
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. The topic of the hearing was reducing healthcare expenditures on chronic illness, which they claimed would amount of
Why Turning Our Schools into a Workforce Development Pipeline is Bad for Democracy
Being a worker means taking orders, citizenship means being an independent thinker. The two aren’t compatible. One demands obedience, the other autonomy. Here’s an uncomfortable
Do You Believe a Universal Basic Income will Save Society? Think again.
I can’t help but get a bad feeling whenever a universal basic income is pitched as the next big thing that will fix poverty. Having
Digital Nudging: Data, Devices & Social Control
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. …“Choice architects” create these systems and weave them into public policy. Through strategic application of “nudges,” citizens, otherwise
A Close Reading of Moneyball for Government & Why You Should Be Worried
But the idea of using “data” to ration resources struck a cord with both Democrats and Republicans. Politicians couldn’t resist the opportunity to use a
Do you sometimes wonder why the Seattle Times does so many puff pieces on Bill Gates and his failed education initiatives?
It’s become clear to folks outside the circle of educators and public education advocates that all of Bill Gates ideas on how other children should
Is Robert Dugger setting up Robin Hood to steal from the poor?
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Patty Murray, a democratic senator from Washington state, crossed the aisle to collaborate closely with Lamar Alexander on
What you can do to assist families at our southern border
First they came for the immigrants… Originally posted in The Cut. What You Can Do Right Now to Help Immigrant Families Separated at the Border
From Math to Marksmanship: Military Ties to Gamified Assessments
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. There is a difference between education and training. There is a difference between knowing just enough to carry
