Using Amazon Echo, Google Home to Learn: Skill of the Future or Bad Idea?
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Recent news reports have highlighted instances in which private conversations recorded by voice assistant devices were posted online or monitored by outside observers. "Instead, it appears that there is a push to condition students early to accept the inevitability of surveillance and the violation of privacy it entails, as well as the mechanization of their classroom experiences, rather than resist this." Some educators, while acknowledging unresolved privacy issues, emphasize that getting experience using these technologies could help students later in life become critical evaluators and developers of them. To prepare to meet that demand, Emerson has begun offering a professional studies certificate program in voice design, and a minor is soon to follow, he said. One teacher in her district tells students to publish their written work on a voice device authoring platform so they can share it with other users and have it read aloud.
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