Classrooms, Not Computers, corporate surveillance, Education Reform 2.0, Stop Corporate Surveillance in Schools, Student-level data2 Comments
Sticky post

Stop Corporate Surveillance In Schools: A Movement Supporting People-Powered Classrooms (Webinars 9/11& 12/28 )

seattleducation2010

Exciting news and updates! Classrooms, Not Computers has found a new title for its campaign: Stop Corporate Surveillance in Schools: A Movement Supporting People-Powered Classrooms Without Corporate Data Mined Students.  Our mission is the same—to build a community-based movement to … Continue reading Stop Corporate Surveillance In Schools: A Movement Supporting People-Powered Classrooms (Webinars 9/11& 12/28 )

Americorps, behavioral economics, digital scrip, Eric and Anna Leslie - Union Capital Boston, gig economy, Internet of Things, KIPP Schools, Knight Foundation, Mechanical Turk - mTurk, precarious work, Sesame Credit, Teach for America, Union Capital Boston1 Comment
Sticky post

How Much Are Your Volunteer Hours Worth? Social Capital Scrip & the Financial-Tech Experiments with New Forms of Precarious Employment

seattleducation2010

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 are awarded 200 points, the per-hour rate of compensation is at most $2 (presuming the … Continue reading How Much Are Your Volunteer Hours Worth? Social Capital Scrip & the Financial-Tech Experiments with New Forms of Precarious Employment

activism, adaptive management systems, Advocacy, Excellent Schools Now, Facebook, League of Education Voters, Stand for Children2 Comments
Sticky post

Manufacturing Consent: How to Engineer an Education Activist

seattleducation2010

If social media platforms can predict your behavior, advocacy groups can buy access to it. They also have the power to manipulate your actions – and good intentions –  to serve their own agenda. Customer tracking, discriminatory pricing (think airlines), … Continue reading Manufacturing Consent: How to Engineer an Education Activist

“A Blockchain Profile for Medicaid Applicants and Recipients.” Institute for the Future, biocryptic process, biometric data, Bitcoin, Bitcoin entrepreneur Andreas Atonopolous, Blockchain, Bloomberg’s What Works Cities, Chamber of Digital Commerce and Coin Center - Blockchain Alliance, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, datum, decentralized identifiers (DIDs used to create self-sovereign digital identities), Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Enigma, Evernym, a Utah-based company - digital identity solutions, Fummi, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, Internet of Things, iris scans, JB Pritzker, MacArthur Foundation, Michael Casey, global economics professor, MIT Digital Currency Lab, Municipal ID Card / Payment Programs, Neha Nerula, Ocean Protocol, Pay for Success, refugee crisis, Santoshi Nakamoto - “Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System.”, Self Sovereign Identity, Smart contracts - benefit eligibility, un-housed - homeless, unCHAINed - refugee UI, universal basic income (UBI)Leave a comment
Sticky post

Blockchain, Self-Sovereign Identity, and Selling Off Humanity

seattleducation2010

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 years (see the featured image). While the technology that undergirds it is complex, programmers are … Continue reading Blockchain, Self-Sovereign Identity, and Selling Off Humanity

ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences), Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Alphabet (parent company of Google), behavioral economics, big data & healthcare, Blockchain, Catalyst - New England Journal of Medicine, Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics - U. Penn., Comcast, Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan of 2010, David Asch Director of the Wharton School’s Center for Health Care Innovation, digital nudges, FitBit, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Go365, Go365 Program, Internet of Things, IoT enabled pill bottle caps, Jennifer Mathis of the Baselon Center for Mental Health Law, Lamar Alexander, mHealth (mobile health) technologies, Michael Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic, Moneyball for Government, outcomes-based contracting, Patty Murray, Pay for Success, Richard Thaler, Senate HELP (health, education, labor and pensions) Committee, Senator Todd Young of Indiana, Sidewalk Labs, Sidewalk Labs - City Block, social impact investing, Steve Byrd - Byrd Health, Steve Byrd, former CEO of Safeway, Symbiont, The Penn Medicine integrated health system created by former UPenn president Judith Rodin & Comcast Executive David Cohen., The Rockefeller Foundation, Value Added Measure, West Virginia's Wildcat Teachers StrikeLeave a comment
Sticky post

Minding Our Health: The Nudge, Part Two

seattleducation2010

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 hundreds of billions of dollars in “savings.” Given the amount of money on the table, … Continue reading Minding Our Health: The Nudge, Part Two

Career Pathways, civics, corporate unionism, Lily Eskelsen Garcia - NEA, National Education Association (NEA), Ted Dintersmith, workforce development3 Comments
Sticky post

Why Turning Our Schools into a Workforce Development Pipeline is Bad for Democracy

seattleducation2010

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 truth we must face as a society: the workplace isn’t a democracy. Never has been, … Continue reading Why Turning Our Schools into a Workforce Development Pipeline is Bad for Democracy

AI Nudge Bots, behavioral economics, Blockchain Universal Basic Income, Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kaheneman, digital nudges, Elon Musk, Every Student Succeeds Act, Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes, George W. Bush, Mark Zuckerburg, No Child Left Behind, Nudge - healthy choices, Nudge Unit, Peter Thiel, President Obama, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Branson, Richard Thaler, Sam Altman, The movie Elysium, The Stockton project - Universal Basic Income, universal basic income (UBI)5 Comments
Sticky post

Do You Believe a Universal Basic Income will Save Society? Think again.

seattleducation2010

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 paid attention to ed-reform, I’ve heard all of this before. Wasn’t No Child Left Behind … Continue reading Do You Believe a Universal Basic Income will Save Society? Think again.

AI and education, Angela Duckworth, app-ified “solutions”, Atlantic Philanthropies, Automated Drones, “evidence-based” approaches, behavioral economics, big data and the surveillance state, Bill Gates, Blockchain, Bloomberg, Callsign (digital identity authentication), Cambridge Analytica, Cass Sunstein, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Characterlab / Grit, Choice Architects, Citi Group’s “Living Cities” program, Cornell-Technion’s Small Data Lab, criminal justice reform, Daniel Kaheneman, decentralized identifiers (DIDs used to create self-sovereign digital identities), digital exhaust, digital nudges, DISC Holdings (digital payments and credit on blockchain), Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, e-government transactions, EA3 devices, Element (biometrics), Evan Nesterak - The Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative (PBSI), Goldman Sachs, Google, Google’s Eric Schmidt Data is the New Oil, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), Ideas42, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, impact metrics, Institute for New Economic Thinking - George Soros, International Finance Commission (IFC), Internet of Things, John and Laura Arnold Foundation, John Arnold- Enron, Katherine Milkman, Lisa Nutter - Sidecar Social Finance, MacArthur Foundation, Michael Nutter - What Works Cities, MIT Media Lab, neoliberal practices, Nudge Unit, Obama’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OccupyICEPHL, Pay for Success, Philadelphia District Attorney’s office - Larry Krasner, Project Trillion Billion, PTB Ventures, public pensions, Results for America, Richard Thaler, Smart Cities, social control, social impact investing, Swarthmore Professor Syon Bhanot, Tata Consulting, The Brookings Institution, UPenn’s GRASP lab, US Army Research Lab, Wharton Business School, Wharton’s Behavior Change for Good programLeave a comment
Sticky post

Digital Nudging: Data, Devices & Social Control

seattleducation2010

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 “irrational actors” in the market, can be guided to conform to economists’ expectations. Through nudges, … Continue reading Digital Nudging: Data, Devices & Social Control

Americorps, austerity-rationing resources, “evidence-based” approaches, big data and the surveillance state, City Year, Class Size, Communities In Schools, interoperability, KIPP charter schools, Moneyball for Government, Pay for Performance, Pay for Success, Student Privacy, surveillance capitalism, Teach for America4 Comments
Sticky post

A Close Reading of Moneyball for Government & Why You Should Be Worried

seattleducation2010

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 real David vs. Goliath baseball story to sell the American public on lowering their expectations … Continue reading A Close Reading of Moneyball for Government & Why You Should Be Worried

Bill Gates10 Comments
Sticky post

Do you sometimes wonder why the Seattle Times does so many puff pieces on Bill Gates and his failed education initiatives?

seattleducation2010

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 be educated have failed and for many reasons. Bill Gates is not an educator, never … Continue reading Do you sometimes wonder why the Seattle Times does so many puff pieces on Bill Gates and his failed education initiatives?

America’s Edge Pennsylvania, America’s Promise, American Enterprise Institute, “evidence-based” approaches, Bill Gates, Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation, education metrics, ESSA, Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking act, Hanover Provident Capital in Alexandria, VA, Harlem Children's Zone, health outcomes metrics, John and Laura Arnold Foundation, K12 Inc., Lamar Alexander, Michael Milken, Partnership for America’s Economic Success, Patty Murray, Paul Ryan, Paul Tudor Jones, Pay for Success, Pennsylvania’s Pre-K Counts, Pew Charitable Trusts, Poverty, Pritzker, ReadyNation, Resolution Trust Corporation, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, Sara Watson, social impact investing, Student-level data, The Brookings Institution, The New York State Early Childhood Advisory Council, the Robin Hood Foundation, Tudor Investment Corporation, Urban Institute, Virginia Early Childhood Education Foundation, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, workforce metricLeave a comment
Sticky post

Is Robert Dugger setting up Robin Hood to steal from the poor?

seattleducation2010

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 the Every Student Succeeds Act, which included Pay for Success provisions. She also teamed up with Paul … Continue reading Is Robert Dugger setting up Robin Hood to steal from the poor?