CAREER: Investigations of Educational Technology to Safeguard Children’s Privacy

学校越来越多地采用教育技术来支持学习，监控学生的参与，跟踪和预测学习成绩。如果学生数据被用于创建导致商业实体不公平歧视或未经同意使用的记录，这些教育技术可能会对学童产生负面影响。学校使用或赞助的许多教育技术没有得到很好的管理。为了保护儿童的隐私，该项目调查了教育技术正在收集的关于学童的数据，这些数据是如何和为什么被使用的，以及被谁使用的。调查考察了远程、混合和面对面学习条件下的教育技术。该项目将使家长、儿童和教师更好地了解教育技术对儿童隐私的影响，以及如何遏制不良数据收集和更好地维护在线隐私。这个项目正在为中学女生创建课外学习活动，为上大学做准备的暑期项目，以及以家长为中心的在线隐私主题研讨会。它还为大学生创造了与隐私相关的教育资源，并为教育技术的监管提供了经验证据。本项目研究教育技术对3-7年级儿童隐私的影响。这项研究是在美国两个最大的公立学区——芝加哥和休斯顿进行的。调查包括对家长和儿童使用教育技术经验的定性数据收集，以及对教师对教育技术的看法和数据收集实践的定性研究。该项目将为美国最大的学区提供最常用的教育技术分类，以及它们对学生隐私的影响。该项目还包括共同设计和评估帮助家长、儿童和教师更好地管理教育技术数据收集的方法，以保护学童的隐私。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Schools have increasingly adopted educational technologies to support learning, monitor student engagement, and track and predict academic performance. These educational technologies may negatively impact schoolchildren if student data are used to create records that lead to unfair discrimination or unconsented use by commercial entities. Many educational technologies used or sponsored by schools are not well regulated. To safeguard children’s privacy, this project investigates the data that educational technologies are gathering on schoolchildren, how and why those data are being used, and by whom they are used. The investigations examine educational technologies under remote, hybrid, and in-person learning conditions. This project will lead to better understanding by parents, children, and teachers of the impact of educational technologies on children’s privacy and how to curb undesirable data collection and better maintain online privacy. This project is creating after-school learning activities for middle school girls, summer programs for college readiness, and parent-focused seminars on the topic of online privacy. It is also creating privacy-related educational resources for college students and providing empirical evidence to inform the regulation of educational technologies.This project studies the privacy effects of educational technologies on children in grades 3–7. The studies are being carried out in two of the largest public school districts in the US, Chicago and Houston. The investigations include qualitative data collection of parents’ and children’s experiences with educational technologies, and qualitative studies of teachers’ views on educational technologies and data collection practices. The project will inform a taxonomy of the most commonly used educational technologies in the largest US school districts and their impact on schoolchildren’s privacy. The project also includes co-design and evaluation of ways to help parents, children, and teachers better manage educational technologies’ data collection for safeguarding schoolchildren’s privacy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.