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Addictive Video Games Pushed Into Classrooms By Silicon Valley
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. June 8, 2018
Nearly all teen shooters over the past two decades have played many hours of recreational violent games that reward players for being proficient at killing. Now tech companies are pushing addictive educational video games into American classrooms.
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Will Education Derivatives Be the Next Wall Street Crash?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. June 1, 2018
Education is becoming a tradeable market that does not concern itself with educating children.
Silicon Valley titans are partnering with investors to develop products and services. The annual ASU-GSV Summit for education technology is a must-attend event where venture capitalists meet with executives from education start-ups to review new personalized or adaptive learning systems for students.
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Gates, Zuckerberg Team Up to Explore Kids' Brain Functions
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. May 15, 2018
Billionaire tech moguls Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are teaming up to inflict more damage on the unsuspecting American public.
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American Students Show Mediocre Test Results
By Carole Hornsby Haynes April 13, 2018 Education Views
The United States spends more on K-12 education than almost any other nation in the world and yet our students are performing poorly on tests.
This week the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress test results in mathematics and reading were published. These are tests that have been funded by Congress since the late 1960s and early 1970s and required for all 50 states as part of No Child Left Behind. Called the nation’s “Report Card,” NAEP tests must be given at least every two years to a stratified random sample of students at specific grade levels (4, 8, and upper high school).
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Truth About Tech: Addiction By Design
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. February 9, 2018 World Net Daily
What many parents have suspected is now being exposed by former Silicon Valley employees: that tech companies have designed their digital products to be addictive.
The Center for Humane Technology, which was recently founded by former Google and Facebook employees, has joined forces with media watchdog, Common Sense Media. In their first campaign – Truth About Tech – they will educate millions of consumers about the dangers of tech products and pressure tech companies to create less addictive and less intrusive products.
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Thousands of Android Apps Track Children, Break Federal Law
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. April 22, 2018 World Net Daily
Thousands of free Android educational apps available in the Google Play store are tracking children in violation of a major federal data-privacy law, exposing kids to targeted ads and automatic profiling.
The study, “Won’t Somebody Think of the Children,” was published in the scholarly journal, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The researchers say the problems are rampant and parents are provided a privacy analysis of each app, including the popular Google Classroom and Khan Academy.
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Feds/Big Tech Join To Push Addiction in Schools
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. March 25, 2018 World Net Daily
The federal government, bent on collecting massive amounts of personal information on its citizens – a flagrant violation of the Fourth Amendment – and the tech industry, under fire for its digital products designed to addict, have joined forces in American classrooms.
Through the unconstitutional Every Student Succeeds Act passed in 2015 under the Obama administration, digital devices with computer adaptive software for both lessons and testing are pushed into K-12 classrooms.
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Texas School Choice: Original Intent of the Texas Constitution
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. January 25, 2018
Giving parents the right to choose how they educate their children must be a high priority.
In a speech Monday proclaiming National School Choice Week, President Donald Trump said, “By giving parents more control over their children’s education, we are making strides toward a future of unprecedented educational attainment and freedom of choice.”