Archives for July 2015

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/07/14/child-surveillance-vulnerability/

There’s a burgeoning area of educational technology, one that has an Orwellian whiff about it. It’s “anti-radicalisation” software, designed to send warning flags to teachers when any youngsters look at certain material on the web, in particular anything to do with extremist Islam. It dovetails nicely with the US and UK governments’ Islamic-terrorist narrative, which seeks to justify increasing surveillance and control, even at grassroots level.

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-07-13-3-ways-educational-technology-tools-predict-student-success

One of the goals of academic assessment is to identify which students need help; the sooner they can be identified, the better. The promise of technology has been that its ability to collect unique data could make this process timelier, more accurate, and less burdensome.

But how might technology actually go about fulfilling this promise? Thus far, academic research suggests that technological tools can predict outcomes by collecting or analyzing data according to the following three different categories.

http://www.utusan.com.my/berita/nasional/al-quran-ebraille-pertama-di-dunia-1.112683

PUTRAJAYA 10 Julai – Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat dengan kerjasama Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) melakar sejarah apabila berjaya mencipta al-Quran eBraille yang pertama di dunia, khusus untuk golongan orang kurang upaya (OKU) kategori penglihatan.