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Bill Gates, Amazon and Google Urge Followers To Share Data On Teacher Friends
theodp writes: Facebook may be facing the threat of a multi-billion dollar FTC fine for privacy lapses that included allowing companies to obtain users' email addresses from their friends, but that didn't discourage Bill Gates from taking to Twitter to urge his 46.5 million followers to give up the names and email addresses of teachers so they can be contacted by tech-bankrolled Code.org for a chance to receive a "Computer Science Scholarship" (attend Professional Development workshops). Or Amazon. Or Google. "The success of our professional learning program depends on the work of our partners to spread the word," explained Code.org in a Medium Post. "Corporate partners like Amazon, Infosys, and Google are rallying their employees and communities to nominate a teacher, and so are fellow teachers, parents, and students. We couldn't do it without you! [...] Code.org (and these scholarships) are supported by: Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Facebook, Google, Infosys Foundation USA, Microsoft [...] Code.org has prepared almost 100,000 educators to teach our courses, and they give our program rave reviews. We welcome teachers from all subject areas-no CS experience needed!"
In May, Code.org announced it was crowdsourcing a database of U.S. K-12 schools that teach -- or don't teach -- CS, with a goal to "gather data for 100% of U.S. schools by the end of 2018." The database would be used by the nonprofit and the CS community to "make our shared vision [for every school to teach computer science] a reality." Several months later, Amazon disclosed its involvement with the data collection effort, explaining it "will help us bring access to the schools that need it most." Amazon on Thursday announced it had selected 1,000 high schools to receive Amazon-funded CS classes and will be tapping another lucky 1,000 schools in the next few months. An Amazon press release said the company hopes to "inspire and educate 10 million children and young adults each year from underprivileged, underrepresented, and underserved communities to pursue careers in the fast-growing field of computer science and coding" through its Amazon Future Engineer program, which the e-tailer describes as "a four-part, childhood-to-career program."
In May, Code.org announced it was crowdsourcing a database of U.S. K-12 schools that teach -- or don't teach -- CS, with a goal to "gather data for 100% of U.S. schools by the end of 2018." The database would be used by the nonprofit and the CS community to "make our shared vision [for every school to teach computer science] a reality." Several months later, Amazon disclosed its involvement with the data collection effort, explaining it "will help us bring access to the schools that need it most." Amazon on Thursday announced it had selected 1,000 high schools to receive Amazon-funded CS classes and will be tapping another lucky 1,000 schools in the next few months. An Amazon press release said the company hopes to "inspire and educate 10 million children and young adults each year from underprivileged, underrepresented, and underserved communities to pursue careers in the fast-growing field of computer science and coding" through its Amazon Future Engineer program, which the e-tailer describes as "a four-part, childhood-to-career program."
As a CS engineer, I would never recommend any of my teacher friends to attend a brainwash from the GAFAMs in order to help them format the students for the industry.
If the GAFAMs really want to help education, they may start by paying their taxes.
And why would I want to "follow" him? On Twitter, of all things?
What's this "Twitter" thing, anyway?
We all know that data sharing is a thing that we all are scared of and by the post, we can see how big companies are sharing our data and making millions and billions of money. The whole database is being transferred from one company to another. As I got to know this from https://applesupportnumber.net... while being concerned with the data on my ios devices.
Focus on the people who can actually pass all their tests and exams every year.
Without needing extra non academic consideration.
Full academic scholarships for the very best in every state after all passing exams.
Years of testing should find the top percentage of every generation, every decade.
The underrepresented can sit the same free tests, pass the same exams as all other students.
Data sets, workshops, a new CoC, money, academic programs, charity cant help people who can't and won't study.
Some people want to be vets, lawyers, historians. To play a sport, do music. Learn a language. Become a mathematician.
Put that new support into all of education.
Let people select what they want to do and ensure the needed academic support is not all about computers and a code CoC.
Let the underprivileged select their own professions. Carpenter, plumber, law, arts, math, languages, sport, math.
They may want to find work with topics such as agriculture, chemistry and finance.
Computer work is not underrepresented. It just needs really smart people who can actually study.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
just forgot to buy the data from Bookface. /s
Maybe it's a test of basic courtesy? When you enter someone's details, they get contacted and asked if someone asked their permission to post their email address. If they say no, an orbital laser fries the brain of the person who DIDN'T HAVE THE COMMON FUCKING COURTESY TO ASK BEFORE SHARING PEOPLE'S DETAILS.
Onto a more legitimate point, at least they are asking people and not just skimming it all automatically.
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Here's the evidence that these people are nothing but a bunch of narcissistic psychopaths. Collecting information on unrelated people, invading their privacy at your own convenience at any time with out a thought or care ...The mental disconnect of these people are unfathomable.
The real mental disconnect here is that Gates will most likely succeed in getting email addresses for almost every teacher on the planet. A sufficient percentage of his followers will comply with his request - either unthinkingly or with full knowledge of the implications, and frankly I'm not sure which is worse.
We as a society are selling out each other's privacy, and making ourselves available to brainwashing programs, at an astonishing rate and with hardly ever a second thought. What we're allowing the tech sector to do to us is the important consideration here - the voracious psychopathy of tech corporations, and corporations in general, hasn't been news for a very long time.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
I have to wonder about programs that are supposed to get ordinary teachers to teach CS. I expect many of us had teachers (especially in primary school) who were teaching stuff they personally did not like or understand. Seems to me that's the likely result here: take someone who doesn't really like CS, and doesn't really understand it either - and have them try to teach it. Seems like a great way to turn students off.
Anyone have practical experience with these programs, who can comment?
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
If we can't get you to sign up we'll get friends to do it for you so we can spam you.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Bingo. Companies haven't made it a good place to study. Now they reap what they sow.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
While I'm in general agreement with your comment on the companies, I don't think public school teacher's email addresses should be private. They're paid for by our taxes, so unless there's a specific privacy/security concern, I don't think any government data should be kept private. Am I missing something?
Just another day in Paradise
Urging followers to "out" the friends of teachers...
I have many friends who are teachers, from elementary to HS and college. Not going to post a single one of their email addresses. Because it's not my information to post. If they want spam they can sign up for it.
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
Why don't they share more of their success with their workers? Maybe then kids will see other people who are successful in development and follow them. When you work for a company you are creating value. If they are going to strip all that value away and leave the worker with the bare minimum of compensation that the market dictates regardless of the value they create then they will get a poor job pool to pick from because there is no motivation to educate in it.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
While I'm in general agreement with your comment on the companies, I don't think public school teacher's email addresses should be private. They're paid for by our taxes, so unless there's a specific privacy/security concern, I don't think any government data should be kept private. Am I missing something?
It isn't a privacy issue, it is yet another way to aggregate data for darn near nothing. email addresses of individual teachers can be found on school web pages, no doubt all of their students and their parents hve them. But to en masse send them to billyboy, or you know many will be posted right to Twitter's toxic environment, this will be a problem. There are people in this world who don't like teachers for their political leanings (perceived or otherwise).
It's like my email address isn't any secret, but I'm not going to post it to Twitter with a note saying "Send bobs and vagene".
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Haven't you heard? Only sociopaths make it to be the head of large companies, so they wouldn't see what is wrong with this.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
If someone went viral with a video or something and wanted to round up all the email addresses of CEOs and executives of large companies, I wonder what the reaction would be?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
If it's a legitimate request, it will be forwarded to them via their schools, colleges, and universities.
If they're just trying to monetize the teachers and have them work below scale for others, it won't.
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