Education in an Era of Pervasive Automation

Nowadays, you go on any of your social media feeds, or you take a look at any of the plethora of online newspapers or 24-hour cable news, and you’ve got a deluge of information. The shaping of the information environment is now being taken over by automated systems, because making informed choices about all of the available information just can’t happen at a human scale. How are you going to make decisions based on that data? [...]you can collect data on student behaviour in the classroom on a minute-by-minute basis that can give you profiles of curiosity levels or activity levels.