Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ With $100M From The Gates Foundation & Others, inBloom Wants To Transform Education By Unleashing Its Data

Stephen Downes

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The lede is completely buried in this story, but here it is: "This morning, the SLC [Shared Learning Collaborative] has officially renamed and rebranded itself under the guise of a new non-profit startup called inBloom, which it has been quietly building and developing over the past 12 months. Simply put, the new non-profit intends to help transform education by providing entrepreneurs, schools and districts with a better, easier way to make sense of and utilize big data." The problem is, do students want to send all their private data to this big centralized data store? I wouldn't.

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