Schools Are Mining Students' Social Media Posts for Signs of Trouble
Schools Are Mining Students' Social Media Posts for Signs of Trouble
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
August 21, 20186m 52s
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Show Notes
Aaah, the traditions of a new school year. New teachers, new backpacks, new crushes—and algorithms trawling students’ social media posts. Blake Prewitt, superintendent of Lakeview school district in Battle Creek, Michigan, says he typically wakes up each morning to twenty new emails from a social media monitoring system the district activated earlier this year.
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