This is going to be, in my opinion, one of the hardest roadblocks in adopting NGDLE

I wonder about the tension inherent in this ecosystem? How free-form will this be? Should there be limits or parameters?

Integration is the key here--with learning opportunities available in disparate locations, institutions of formal education need to help students make sense of their world and integrate their learning.

What happens if we turn this around - given a widespread and routine data collection culture which normalizes and numbs students to risk as early as K-8, what are our responsibilities (and strategies) to educate around this culture? And how do our institutional practices relate to that educational mission?

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NGDLE stands for "next generation digital learning environment". Also see ELI's 2015 companion post: 7 Things You Should Know About NGDLE.

NGDLE stands for "next generation digital learning environment". Also see ELI's 2018 companion post: 7 Things You Should Read About NGDLE.

It would behoove us to be clear about all the "we"s that collect student data: from teachers, to depts, to institutions, to software vendors, to accreditors, to govt agencies, to third parties that harvest data from these other "we"s. Perhaps our first duty is to help students understand the constellation of data collection and sharing they (and we all) participate in, so they can start understanding and be better prepared to make informed choices.