Taming EdTech
eBook - ePub

Taming EdTech

Why Children Stand to Lose in an Unregulated Digitised Classroom

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Taming EdTech

Why Children Stand to Lose in an Unregulated Digitised Classroom

About this book

As education becomes more dependent on data-intensive algorithmic systems, private corporate power continues to grow. Left unregulated, the implications for children's basic rights and future life chances are not to be underestimated. In this book, Velislava Hillman argues that datafication, i.e. turning all human actions into data, and surveillance have been normalised in eductional settings and shows how edtech products are not improving education equally for all children. She calls for a licensing regime which drives the edtech industry towards ethical practices and meeting appropriate standards before they are allowed to operate in schools. Looking beyond edtech's potentials, this book outlines a governance framework across socio-technical, ethical, critical pedagogic, and human rights imperatives for governing the digitisation of education.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: Why a Book about Taming EdTech?
  9. 2 Digitizing the Classroom: What Is the Problem?
  10. 3 Infrastructure Capture: What Is the ‘Big Picture’ of Digitizing Education?
  11. 4 Automation: What Are the Risks of Automating Children’s Education?
  12. 5 Voice: What Do Children Say about the Digitized Classroom?
  13. 6 The Good Intentions of School: Why School Matters?
  14. 7 Governance by Distraction: What Guarantees the Benefits of Digitizing Education?
  15. 8 Licensed to Operate: How to Fix a Fragmented Governance of EdTech?
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Imprint