[t]he Educational Data Mining Workbench [which] support[s] learning scientists to perform a number of analytic tasks including 1) define and modify behavior categories of interest (e.g., gaming, unresponsiveness, off-task conversation, help avoidance), 2) label previously collected educational log data with the categories of interest, 3) validate inter-rater reliability between multiple labelers of the same educational log data corpus, and 4) provide support for running the labeled data through a machine-learning tool, such as WEKA or RapidMine.
To simplify, Learnsphere's "Data Mining Workbench" aggregates student data so that "learning scientists" can evolve AI ed-tech through a "machine-learning tool" that scans "learning analytics" from "behavior categories," such as cognitive-behavioral stimulus-response algorithms and socioemotional-biofeedback algorithms that track "unresponsiveness, off-task conversation, help avoidance," etc.
According to Learnsphere's LearnLab DataShops, the "learning scientists" who are eligible to access Learnsphere's digital edu-conditioning databanks include "Educational data miner[s]," such as "Computer scientist[s], Psychometrician[s], [and] Learning analytics researcher[s]"; "Course developer[s] [and] Educational technology researcher[s]," such as "ITS/AIED researcher[s] [and] User modeling researcher[s]"; and "Psychologist[s]," such as "Cognitive scientist[s] [and] Educational psychologist[s]." In brief, Learnsphere's distributed databases are collated so that "learning engineers" can synthesize student massive pools of students' psychological data for the purposes of evolving adaptive-learning and SEL-biofeedback algorithms to build artificial intelligence for ed-tech.
Like Learnsphere and inBloom, InnovateEDU's BigQuery partnership is a similar Big Data project geared to streamline and accelerate the evolution of socioemotional-biofeedback and cognitive-behavioral adaptive-learning algorithms for the purposes of progressively engineering "learning analytics" delivered through "post-human" artificial intelligence designed by Big Tech companies that partner with Big Government to manage a techno-fascist planned economy. It should be noted here that the Gates-funded InnovateEDU is also financed by the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, the Silicon Valley Family Foundation, the New York Community Trust, and the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development.
In addition, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of InnovateEDU, Erin Mote, has
work[ed] with Intel, Cisco, Google and HP. Erin has served in an advisory capacity to the White House/OSTP's US Ignite Initiative, the President's Global Development Innovation Policy, the State Department's TechCamp program, and the Obama Administration's intra-agency process for Rio 2.0 and Rio+20. Erin served as the founding Chief of Party for the USAID Global Broadband and Innovations Alliance - a $19.5 million global technology expansion project.
It should also be noted that Mote "leads the development of Cortex, a next generation learning platform, student information system, and formative assessment engine that supports personalized learning." Mote's colleague, Nicolle Beneventano, is InnovateEDU's Project Manager for Cortex, which shares its own "Ed-Fi operational data store (ODS)" with Learnsphere's Big Data repository.
In sum, between BigQuery and Cortex, InnovateEDU's "reimagine" data-mining partnerships are expanding upon Learnsphere's "distributed infrastructure" of Big Data analytics designed to evolve post-human AI ed-tech.
"Disrupting" Class with "Creative Destruction"
The Gates Foundation's Reimagine Education initiative is part of its larger "Disaster Capitalist" mission to exploit COVID lockdown as an opportunity for "Creative Destruction" that will ram through the mass-institutionalization of "disruptive technologies" which "destroy" the tradition of human teachers in brick-and-mortar schoolrooms in order to "create" a new public-private industry of learning analytics engineered by communitarian partnerships between Big Tech and Big Government.
The partnership between Google and the Gates-financed InnovateEDU is a prime example of how the Reimagine Education campaign is fueled by a "Disaster Capitalist" stratagem to capitalize on Joseph Schumpeter's economic principle of "Creative Destruction" by heavily subsidizing "disruptive" ed-tech that digitally automates school lessons through virtual classrooms which facilitate COVID "distance learning" by replacing human teachers and brick-and-mortar schoolhouses while the latter are forced to shut down due to COVID lockdown. According to InnovateEDU's company website, "InnovateEDU is committed to massively disrupting [my emphasis] K-12 public education by focusing on the development of scalable tools and practices that leverage innovation, technology [my emphasis], and new human capital systems to improve education for all students and close the achievement gap."
By advancing "technology" to "massively disrupt . . . education" for the purposes of "leverag[ing] innovation," InnovateEDU is explicitly proclaiming its commitment to Schumpeter's "Creative Destruction" economics. And by exploiting the "Shock Doctrine" of COVID lockdown as an opportunity to partner with Google and the Gates Foundation to massively expand Big Data-mining through BigQuery, InnovateEDU is clearly exploiting "Disaster Capitalist" schemes to "Build Back Better" by enhancing its "creative disruption" of traditional schooling with technocratic AI learning analytics.
In brief, through partnerships with BigQuery and Cortex, the Gates-financed InnovateEDU is fulfilling its "reimagination" of education by expanding ed-tech data-tracking that "massively disrupts" traditional schooling by streamlining massive pools of cognitive-behavioral and socio-emotional learning analytics to improve AI algorithms which will "destroy" traditional teacher feedback as new automated instructional algorithms are "created" to "disrupt" human teacher feedback with digital stimulus-response feedback programmed to condition students for workforce "competence" in a techno-fascist planned economy managed by "human capital systems."
In alignment with the Gates Foundation's "disruptive tech" partnership with InnovateEDU, the Gates philanthropy has paid out $1,375,414 to the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, which declares itself "a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through Disruptive Innovation. . . . [T]he Institute offers a unique framework for understanding many of society's most pressing issues including education, healthcare, and economic prosperity."
In the fields of "K-12 Education" and "Higher Education," the Clayton Christensen thinktank promotes advancements in "disruptive" ed-tech "Software and Hardware" (including "adaptive learning" courseware and other "artificial intelligence" programs). The thinktank also advocates for "disruptive innovation" in K-12 and higher education through partnerships with "For-Profit Providers" on the cutting edge of "Data & Assessment," "Personalized and Blended Learning," "Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)," "Social Capital," "Competency-Based Learning," and "Workforce Readiness."
On May 27th of the COVID lockdown, three weeks after the announcement of the Gates-Schmidt-Cuomo collaboration to Reimagine Education, the Gates Foundation issued a special $294,914 grant to the Institute for Disruptive Innovation for the purposes of "understand[ing] what motivates districts to adopt continuous improvement practices to improve outcomes that are predictive of post-secondary success."
To sum up, the Gates Foundation's partnerships with InnovateEDU and the Institute for Disruptive Innovation are illustrative of the Gates' philanthropy's broader "Disaster Capitalist" enterprise, which is stage-managing the "Creative Destruction" of the old schooling system in order to usher in a new techno-fascist system of AI edu-conditioning that Naomi Klein calls a "Screen New Deal." Built on "surveillance capitalism," what Klein labels as the "Screen New Deal" is nothing less than the next phase of Project BEST as the Gates Foundation bankrolls Reimagine Education partnerships with Big Tech corporations that deploy "disruptive technologies" for tracking students' learning analytics into psychological profiles which rank the students' cognitive-behavioral and socio-emotional "competence" algorithms into "Social Credit Scores" that determine their job placement in a digital workforce caste system.
Reimagine a Global "Screen New Deal": Build Back a Better "School World Oder"
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