Share Paper: Ethics and challenges of databased decision making processes in educational contexts

  1. Rita Kop, Yorkville University, Canada
  2. Guillaume Durand, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
Wednesday, June 26 2:45 PM-3:15 PM Vondelpark

Abstract: Heidegger proposed in 1977 that the world was in transition from the modern to the technological way-of-being, in which humans and objects act upon one another in ways that mutually transform their characteristics. At that time technologies were simple and could be classified as tools. Emerging technologies are different. They are complicated assemblages of data and artefacts, and their availability to humans involves models made of multiple algorithms produced by computer scientists. This complicates scrutiny of the tools and assessment of their value to augment the human/technological way-of-being and learning. However, the models can bring interesting developments to the education ...