In referring to "hacking the educational system," we are using an analogy to computing, whereby smart, clever, and/or devious programmers find ways to break the system.
Hacking computers creates a real security risk, if somebody with bad intentions tries to break the system. However, once the crisis of hacking was recognized, companies started to invite hackers to break the system, so they could find and fix the flaws. Those who hack without permission are black-hat hackers, and are illegal. Those who hack with permission are white-hat hackers. They are perfectly legal. There are some hackers who are known as gray-hat, in that they go beyond the permissions granted.
If you stick with this analogy, we are asking for white-hat hacking only! All changes must be approved.
However, like the computer hackers, students will have a chance to really step "out of the box" and do something a bit different from their peers. Because of the potential variety of students choosing to participate, large numbers of students might all seek to change things and be "different." In this way, education will become much more personalized than it has been for the last century.
We will be clear to all students that there are right ways and wrong ways to get around the system. Even our nation's Founding Fathers followed formal protocol before declaring independence by submitting the Olive Branch Petition to King George.
Hacking computers creates a real security risk, if somebody with bad intentions tries to break the system. However, once the crisis of hacking was recognized, companies started to invite hackers to break the system, so they could find and fix the flaws. Those who hack without permission are black-hat hackers, and are illegal. Those who hack with permission are white-hat hackers. They are perfectly legal. There are some hackers who are known as gray-hat, in that they go beyond the permissions granted.
If you stick with this analogy, we are asking for white-hat hacking only! All changes must be approved.
However, like the computer hackers, students will have a chance to really step "out of the box" and do something a bit different from their peers. Because of the potential variety of students choosing to participate, large numbers of students might all seek to change things and be "different." In this way, education will become much more personalized than it has been for the last century.
We will be clear to all students that there are right ways and wrong ways to get around the system. Even our nation's Founding Fathers followed formal protocol before declaring independence by submitting the Olive Branch Petition to King George.
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