SaTC: CORE: Small: RUI: An Exploratory Study of Technology Adoption in K-12: Educational Benefits vs Privacy Costs

该项目探讨了加州K-12公立学区的技术采用实践和互动以及教育技术采用决策者的数字数据素养。从许多来源（学校、家庭、移动技术）的数据融合而成的数据档案可以跟踪个人的一生。尽管人们对数字素养教育的了解越来越多，但人们普遍缺乏对数字数据素养的了解，也缺乏对在线交换数据的易用性和潜力的了解，尽管它的目的或用途是什么。现行法规，如《家庭教育权利和隐私法》（FERPA）和《儿童在线隐私保护法》（COPPA），可能对未来的推断或预测用途提供不足的保护。该项目的目标是探索学校技术决策者在多大程度上考虑青少年隐私以及儿童数字信息的长期使用和传播。本项目以加州学区为例，调查了教育技术采购策略和流程。研究方法包括深度访谈和初步调查，以检验K-12教育技术决策者的数字数据素养，以及教育技术采用决策者是否、如何解决青年和家庭隐私问题。该项目还将包括对涉及几个相关学科的隐私文献进行正式审查，并对教育技术采购中涉及的营销过程进行调查。理解教育技术采用的复杂性和影响是至关重要的。这个项目推动了商业、公共政策和教育领域对隐私的讨论。学生将参与研究的所有阶段。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。

This project explores technology adoption practices and interactions and the digital data literacy of education technology adoption decision makers in California K-12 public school districts. Data profiles constructed from the comingling of data from many sources (school, home, mobile technology) can follow the individual through his or her lifetime. Although there is an increasing understanding in education about digital literacy, there is a general lack of understanding about digital data literacy, or the ease and potential of comingling of data exchanged online, despite its purpose or use. Current regulations such as the Familly Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) may provide inadequate protections for future inference or predictive uses. The goal of this project is to explore the extent to which school technology decision-makers consider youth privacy and the long-term use and dissemination of children's digital information.Using a sample of California school districts, this project investigates educational technology procurement strategies and processes. Research methods include in-depth interviews and a preliminary survey to examine the digital data literacy of educational technology decision makers in K-12, and whether, how, issues of youth and family privacy are addressed by education technology adoption decision makers. The project will also involve a formal review of privacy literature involving several relevant disciplines and investigations of the marketing processes involved in educational technology procurement. Understanding the complexity and impact of educational technology adoption is essential. This project advances the discussion of privacy across commercial, public policy, and education interests. Students will be involved in all phases of the research.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.