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1. How do we meet that happy medium of using technology but also not using it too much.

2. How do we ensure that our students are safe?

3. How do we make social media a positive tool for our students?

4. How do we as educators fight back against some students, young women to be exact, being synonymous with pornography on internet platforms? How do we work to change this?

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Technology is definitely a subject that is growing in our society today. The videos were so intriguing on enlightening me about bias to people of color.

1. Joy Buolamwini

This video was eye opening. I was shocked when she first brought up the issue of the camera not being able to recognize her face. It truly is a problem when a person of color can’t be identified just because of her skin tone. The fact that she had to put on a white mask to be identified is degrading to people of color. I agree with her point that in computer software there needs to be more inclusive and diverse individuals on the team creating the software.

2. Ruha Benjamin

She brought up great points that I think we as a society need to be aware of. One point that stuck out to me was whose voices are missing when important decisions are being made. The individuals who are struggling with a certain issue, their voices should be heard. It is something to ponder on and think about how we can include experiences and voices.

3. Safiye Ummoja Noble

When hearing Safiye talk about women of color and lgbtqi putting themselves on the line to normalize conversation, I realized that this is true. I feel like somme women make themselves so vulnerable, just to get a point or an issue across. Why does it need to go that far?

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1. The most important question I have is how with all the technological advances can we make sure that students are not distracted from the information they need to be learning? I think that technology provides endless opportunities for new ways of learning, yet can be a distraction at times. What ways as educators can we ensure that the material is not just being taught but also retained?
2. We see how discrimination can be a common theme with technological advances, however this can be overlooked in many cases. What was as educators can we ensure that we not only identify such cases but also modify the information we are presenting to be inclusive and raise awareness?
3. Finally, with endless resources and material to teach our students, how do we make sure information is taught with ought a sense of bias? As educators we are taught to teach the truth, but with so much information out there, how do we make sure we are showing all sides of the information? Additionally, how do we ensure that students are not learning from a bias standpoint, in order for them to get the most out of their education?

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Technology can be a good resource to students, but just like any other tool, it needs to be taught how to be used appropriately. As another student brought up, I think it's important to keep students up to date and comfortable with technology as it is such a large part of our society and they are prepared, but they also need to be aware of the harms, biases, and repercussions of an online presence.
How can we include technological resources in a classroom without furthering the bias within our students?

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These are questions brought to me by the content of this module:
1. Technology is changing educational methods, educational content and even educational concepts. How can we better adapt to this change?
2.How can we solve and even reverse the problems (discrimination, privacy violations, etc.) caused by these technologies into a part that is beneficial to education?
3.How to better integrate technology with the classroom?

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The education and technology readings and videos brought to my attention many questions, wonders, and thoughts that I currently have:

1. Technology is taking over on everything, and we need to be more aware of bias that comes along with it.

2. How can these technology engines be more strict to avoid any discriminatory or unfair actions.

3. Do we ever think things will stop changing in technology and taking over, or should it just be us to make sure to stay up to date, as things are always changing, and it make now make changes in our current jobs.

4. Do you think it is a bad thing to keep the younger generation up to date with technology so they are prepared for the real world?

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From this week's reading and video material, I have the following questions coming up:
Why do people feel both excited and scared when they are developing new technologies? Why do people keep creating greater AI products even though they believe these products will have much more negative impacts than positive impacts? Can government form more laws to limit the creation of new but dangerous technologies?
When technology offers great convenience in education, how would teachers help students  to find useful information and stay away from fake ones?

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I found the first video of Safiya Umoja Noble particularly interesting. Ten years seems like a long time ago, it was a decade ago, but it really was not a long time ago at all. I found it intriguing that no one would really sit in on her dissertation that search engines were inherently racist. I personally have never thought about that but as I listened to Noble and the video, she brought up a lot of interesting points. Why are search engines inherently racist? How could search engines such as Google or Safari or AOL be not only held accountable for this?

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Viewing these resources, it reaffirmed my ideas on how influential and critical technology can be with society. In recent years, I think we have seen how much technology, media, social networking, and the internet can be with creating narratives, enforcing biases, spreading misinformation, and creating tension among the members of our community and country as a whole. I am reminded of the quote from George Orwell, “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” Here is where our responsibility as educators can help our students to objectively view information and not believe everything you see. As my father used to joke with me, “It’s on the internet, it must be true!”

While there is still a need for more representation for other communities in media, movies, commercials, and other popular culture, I do think we have made great strides to show more inclusive content. I agree that there is still work that needs to be done, but we can acknowledge that we are at least moving in the right direction. Again, the good, bad, and the ugly.

While these resources are interesting and important to know, I wonder what we can do as educational leaders to improve these problems? What solutions are provided in our roles in education that we can use to improve these scenarios? Lastly, with the topic being technology in education, I would have liked to have seen more of what positive effects technology is making in education. With school districts being changed due to the pandemic, schools had to adapt to using more technology in the classroom. What additional benefits can we as school leaders implement to make a positive change?

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AI adaptive software has been able to perpetuate cycles of misinformation but it also has the power to stop the spread of fiction from truth in our news and public, political and economic discussions. What more of an incentive should there be for social media organizations to be held accountable for being more proactive? Do you think the recent whistleblower case in Facebook will be their inflection point? (Claire)

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AI adaptive software has been able to perpetuate cycles of misinformation but it also has the power to stop the spread of fiction from truth in our news and public, political and economic discussions. What more of an incentive should there be for social media organizations to be held accountable for being more proactive? Do you think the recent whistleblower case in Facebook will be their inflection point? (Claire)

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1.  Watters - I like the optimism of her thoughts.  I couldn't imagine anyone booing her off stage.  More than anything, though, I like that she emphasizes the humanity found within society, life, and even, through coding, machines.  I wonder: what can we do to better reclaim that humanity within our daily lives and instill such hope in our kids?

2.  Noble - Scary stuff!  It makes sense, though, that in search engines that have finite billing at the "top of the fold" that such examples of bias.  I wonder: if bias is somehow endemic and cannot be deprogrammed, will out algorithm consumption fragment as a society as it has done for media?

3.  Benjamin - This was an important call to refocus ourselves on the world that we are able to create with advancing technologies.  I wonder: do we have sufficient ethical guidelines and regulations in place to nudge people toward a more compassionate future?

4.  Buolamwini - This was interesting. It seems a natural extension to what we know is best for collaborative practices in teams - with very impactful real-world implications. I wonder: how popular has this common-sense policy proposal become in the tech industry?

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From this weeks readings…

I find it to be uncomfortable to be made aware that “black girls, and Latina girls and asian girls are synonymous with pornography” …it’s how they’re “encoded” into platforms according to Safiya Umoja Noble in ‘The Internet Unleashed’. I do appreciate the speakers use of the word “crisis” because that truly is what this feels like. It is sad to imagine certain groups of women being synonymous to pornography and I wonder what affects that has on the developing female brain.

In ‘How I’m Fighting Bias in Algorithms’ with Joy Buolamwini, what stood out to me was the literal demonstration of Joy sitting in front of a computer but not being detected until she put a white mask on. I’ve never seen anything like that and I found it to be so sad. It is so interesting how quickly algorithmic bias travels and how many people it reaches. I am appreciative of how Joy asks “who, how and why we code”. Those are three major points to look at in inclusivity and coding.

Ruha Benjamin in ‘From Park Bench to Lab Bench - What Kind of Future are we Designing’ emphasizes on how focused businesses are about customers instead of PEOPLE. There is a disconnect between cooperations and literal humans. It is something I feel like I see everyday, often people are just seen as numbers. “The customer is not always right” I like that Ruha discusses this idea because it’s true, why let one person dictate decisions of everyone.

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Connor Wege                                                                      1. People tend to want to be right about any topic they have a strong opinion about. There is so much information out there, that we can typically find a source that supports our argument even if it is mostly incorrect. How can we combat tech in creating confirmation bias?      

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Connor Wege                                                                      1. People tend to want to be right about any topic they have a strong opinion about. There is so much information out there, that we can typically find a source that supports our argument even if it is mostly incorrect. How can we combat tech in creating confirmation bias?      

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2. After reading the article, do you feel pressured to constantly stay up to date with technology because you could be replaced by robots/AI if you are not continuing to educate yourself?

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I found this weeks videos to be really interesting. I believe that we have to be aware in the technology field that as we continue to row we need to be more aware of bias. Especially in software development.

I found Ruha Benjamin's talk to be amazing. I loved what she had to say. I think that she hits some great points. We are trying to hide the problem and not change the problem. She describes park benches all over the world and the way the design of the park bench was to avoid people from loitering, but it didn't address why people were loitering (the homeless) person .

Neuroscience and impulsivity and trying to predict it due to parole boards making difficult decisions to allow people to be paroled. Her point was well taken. Why are we not looking at the real issues in the population of people. The lack of education the significant trauma's that have played them there. I've worked in a program in a state penitentiary.  I have seen the social issues and mental health and our lack of support upon release. We need to adjust our thinking not try to predict but look at the research that shows how to change and fix it.

I love that she says we need to get our hands dirty and look at our world and include everyone.  Reorienting the environment and understanding each other.

There are so many things missed when we don't view all sides and include everyone and hear everyone's voice. Loved this.

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Below I have listed some question/thoughts I had while going through the core material:

1. Social media is such a big platform in today society, what I would like to know is how can we change those platforms algorithms so that there is not this discriminatory design.

2. I agree that todays social media has created an sense of urgency and a disconnection.

3. How can we use these technology resources to address the underlying social crisis that are present in search engines, how can we change the platform?

4. There are many discriminatory designs that can be seen in the world as mentioned by Ruha Benjamin with her examples in benches that show discrimination, we need to be able to include the voices that are missing if we really want to make a change.

5. I am not to technology savy but I found Joy Buolamwini talk about Software bias very interesting. To think that she was an entrepreneur trying to advance technology when a software coding that is world wide can't recognize her face due to her skin color and face structure. I think that this issue needs to be addressed due to its computer vision exclusion.

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The education and technology portion of this week’s model broadened my perspectives on the role of technology in society and in education more specifically.  The material has also made me pause and wonder about certain things.

1. Ed-Tech Agitprop discusses some of the blatant lies that tech companies feed us (ex: we can print 3D cats).  Why are we so willing to buy into the stories the tech world feeds us?  How do we combat this?

2. Also in Ed-Tech Agitprops, I found it interesting how scare tactics about job security are used to promote lifetime learning as a way of staying competitive and relevant.  What are ways we can shift away from lifelong learning for the sake of competition and personal gain driven by fear to lifelong learning for the sake of partnerships and community building?

3. I had not really thought about bias in technology before this week’s module, but I appreciate that folks are out there studying how bias exists in tech (and algorithms specifically).  I appreciated that in Fighting Bias in Algorithms, Joy Buolamwini discussed ways to fight this including recognizing that who codes matters, how we code matters, and why we code matters.

4. Drawing from the three videos, a technology continues to evolve what types of protections should be put into place to combat harm communities and individuals face through the use of predictive technologies and discrimination practices and design?

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Joe Zangaro - Technology in Education Questions

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1. Why are we constantly steered in a direction that attempts to make people believe more technology and more technological advancements are needed to survive in the future?
2. How can organizations completely ignore populations of people their designs/innovations harm, and not incorporate their perspectives into their work?
3. Do tech agencies/companies/social media platforms need to be held more accountable for their race based discriminatory algorithm practices?

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It’s deeper than a dance strike. TikTok is actively denying creator funding for any type of content related to black folk on their app. The algorithm is literally anti black. You’re telling me ‘white supremacy’ isn’t inappropriate content??

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It’s deeper than a dance strike. TikTok is actively denying creator funding for any type of content related to black folk on their app. The algorithm is literally anti black. You’re telling me ‘white supremacy’ isn’t inappropriate content?? https://t.co/1stSv84rfd

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It’s deeper than a dance strike. TikTok is actively denying creator funding for any type of content related to black folk on their app. The algorithm is literally anti black. You’re telling me ‘white supremacy’ isn’t inappropriate content?? pic.twitter.com/1stSv84rfd
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It’s deeper than a dance strike. TikTok is actively denying creator funding for any type of content related to black folk on their app. The algorithm is literally anti black. You’re telling me ‘white supremacy’ isn’t inappropriate content?? https://t.co/1stSv84rfd

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It’s deeper than a dance strike. TikTok is actively denying creator funding for any type of content related to black folk on their app. The algorithm is literally anti black. You’re telling me ‘white supremacy’ isn’t inappropriate content??