The Technology Ethical Orientation and Risk Governance for Smart Education

At present, the integration of intelligent technology and education is driving a profound change in the educational mode, and at the same time spawning technological ethical risks such as algorithm discrimination, technology abuse, privacy disclosure, and dislocation of educational subjects. How to avoid the risks to maximize the benefits of intelligent technology has become an essential issue in the development of smart education. Therefore, this paper firstly analyzed the related reports of technology ethics, and described the technology ethics orientations of smart education in four aspects of intelligence technology, educational subject, educational data, and educational supervision. Then, this paper analyzed the representations of differentiated technology ethical risks in six typical scenarios of “teaching-learning-management-evaluation-training-research”, and classified their root causes into three levels of untrustworthiness of technology tools, the anomie of educational practice, and the lack of teachers and students quality. Finally, the suggestions on risk prevention and governance were given in the perspectives of technology upgrading, risk management, accountability supervision, data flow, and literacy improvement to assist the sustainable and healthy development of smart education.