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.
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