I am confident that technical bugs and challenges will eventually be solved. As I mentioned in response to another post, my concerns are primarily ethical around privacy. (I was not even comfortable registering my selfie with Blippar without knowing more about how this company operates and is governed.)
Technology is very exciting, but while we tinker with it, we may not notice how it is - or is not - being regulated. Who will get access to facial recognition imagery? How will privacy be protected? As a parent, I would be very worried about a child’s privacy if classroom practices were not carefully practiced with children under 18. Teachers will surely get excited about certain technologies, and the slightest slip could reveal personal information that could fall into the hands of unscrupulous people.
I remember when Facebook was the first company to push “real” identities online, and recall very well that some of my most tech-savvy and tech industry friends and family insisted on always keeping an ID “handle”; to this day, many do not use their real names online. In an uncertain world, it doesn’t feel paranoid anymore; it feels like common sense. Now, with teachers having grown up with technology normalized, how can we teach critical media literacy and technology skills to new generations of students? What ethical and privacy codes should they be taught?
Julia