Scott offers thoughtful comments on April 1 about Why Using Identity is Losing Identity. He reviews the commercial value of personal identity and efforts to exploit it legally.

Since reading this article and his links, I’ve been thinking about these comments.

Apparently, online merchants as well as local grocery chain stores make money from information they collect about customers.

Why wouldn’t schools also try to make money from what they know about a student and the student’s family?

Will educators err on the side of clamping down on all authorized uses of, for example, a Tablet PC? Or will they take a chance and open up electronic networks to whatever a student takes time to explore, and then deal individually with consequences of each student’s learning?

This will require more thought and conversation. Knowing educators, I wonder …