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LA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at risk (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Clicking through to one of the source articles

Through an algorithm that analyzes troves of student information from multiple sources, the chatbot was designed to offer tailored responses to questions like “what grade does my child have in math?”

Okay, I'm not a big-brain edtech integration admin, but I seem to recall that like fifteen years ago we had a website that my parents could check to see my grade in math. I feel like this was already a solved problem honestly.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

Ah, but checking the actual grade gives a correct answer. Who wouldn't want to change that for a statistically likely answer?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Back in my day, we brought home a report card every six to nine weeks. I remain unconvinced that more frequent reporting is actually more informative. More appealing to helicopter parents, certainly, but that's not the same thing.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

Back in my day I told my mom "hey I got this grade today" and she was like "oh cool, good job" and then we ate dinner.