David's Techsploration day - tomorrow 5/30

Techsploration Day 2014
Carpinteria Family School
12:30 - 2:00 pm (a half hour should be enough time to get the experience)
1480 Linden Ave, Carpinteria, CA 93013

from the north:
SB on 101
Exit Linden Ave.
Left over freeway towards mountains.
School entrance is on right, find parking in lot or street (not in bus turnaround!)
Get visitor pass at Canolino school office
Techsploration will be set up outside on grass area to the right on school grounds (southwest area)

from the south:
NB on 101
exit Casitas Pass Road
left over freeway towards ocean
right on Carpinteria Avenue (Casitas Pass road ends at this intersection)
down about 6 blocks to stoplight at Linden Avenue
Right on Linden Avenue towards mountains over freeway
School entrance is on right, find parking in lot or street (not in bus turnaround!)
Get visitor pass at Canolino school office
Techsploration will be set up outside on grass area to the right on school grounds (southwest area)

Students' Privacy Rights versus Data-Driven Learning

Some open-source software developer friends of mine have been discussing this article and I thought you might find it interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/technology/a-student-data-collector-drops-out.html?_r=0

Basically, the discussions were talking about the need to provide safe places (even on computers) for students to tinker and explore and how important this is while also needing to differentiate learning and how useful that could be. The difficulty is that once you start collecting data from students' tinkering, it can be used for anything and those uses compromise students' privacy rights. It seems kind of like the play that students need to have to explore and take risks only the computer version of that play.