Big Data - The New Coin of the Realm
My predictions for the new coin of the realm for the next 25 years for both business and government? Data and lots of it . And now, we have "digital data backpacks" so that your child's data can be "carried" around AND made use of anywhere your child goes. From The Atlantic (with the what-should-be-troubling-to-you title, Your High School Transcript Could Haunt You Forever , the story of how what seems to be help - remedial classes in college - could follow you around. What if the data collected by the software never disappeared and the fact that one had needed to take remedial classes became part of a student’s permanent record, accessible decades later? What if the data collected by the software never disappeared and the fact that one had needed to take remedial classes became part of a student’s permanent record, accessible decades later? Some educational reformers advocate for “digital backpacks” that would have students car...