The articles from topic 1 impressed me by helping me understand the importance of privacy and security of personal information. They illustrate the pros-cons points about big-data education, mostly the ethical concern were discussed. Indeed, edtech has become common and our personal information would be transmitted to be data. We should be allowed to know the consequences while the personalized learning.

I agree with the concern of non-discrimination. The students are sorted and treated unfairly and unequally based on their race, gender, and other personal attributes. In my opinion, it is the biggest education failure under a discrimination system. From an ethical point of view, every student deserves the same starting line before education. The potential of an individual does not depend on their race or gender. Big data can not calculate the capacity and energy within an individual; with enough effort, every possibility might be created by a person. Also, we need diversity and inclusion of education from all types of people instead of discrimination based on stereotypes of different types of people. The education system can also be better which is not limited by the condition of people.

Another concern I agree with is information privacy. We should be allowed to know whether our personal information is protected. I would like to share a story from my personal experience. Once I was defrauded by an illegal group of fellows. They pretended to be the health service institution and asked for a charge of 2000 dollars. They firstly confirmed my personal information including my name, birth, address, and health number which were exactly the same as my information. I was told to transfer the payment immediately to the given account or police would come to arrest me. I was freaking out and almost did what they told me to do. Fortunately, I contacted the official health service institution to make sure this and they told me not to trust those people and it was a fraud. I think this could happen is because some employees would trade customer’s personal information for their personal benefit. This is why I would concern about the privacy information when it is shared.

I may want to learn more about the solution if these concerns occur in reality. What should we do if we lose the opportunity of education or our personal information fall into wrong hands？