Edtech bros lying about the data they collect and transmit. Also it's a Wednesday.

Contains discussion of "early alert" systems, often understood by students (especially early on) as "you don't belong in college" such that they leave.

Value capture occurs when an agent’s values are rich and subtle; they enter a social environment that presents simplified — typically quantified — versions of those values; and those simplified articulations come to dominate their practical reasoning.

There is, however, a price. In value capture, we take a central component of our autonomy — our ongoing deliberation over the exact articulation of our values — and we outsource it. And the metrics to which we outsource usually engineered for the interests of some external force, like a large-scale institution’s interest in cross-contextual comprehensibility and quick aggregability. That outsourcing cuts off one of the key benefits to personal deliberation. In value capture, we no longer adjust our values and their articulations in light of own rich experience of the world. Our values should often be carefully tailored to our particular selves or our small-scale communities, but in value capture, we buy our values off the rack.

Nice summary of surveillance offered by common tools. Ask students how to game them.

Law schools and legal scholars are not immune to the expanding use of quantitative metrics to assess the research of universities and of scholars working within

THIS. SHIT. DOESN'T. EVEN. FUCKING. WORK.

On what Crisis Text Line screwed up: duty of loyalty.

Data dictionary for Canvas