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