"Schools are slowly becoming extremely reliant on a few large companies’ entire technological stacks in order to operate. In turn, these stacks are reshaping what schooling is and could be, and exercising unaccountable control over students, teachers, administrators and content providers alike".
This worries me quite a lot, actually. Read the whole essay. https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/schools-must-resist-big-edtech
(via @garyackerman)
@margreta @garyackerman i find the use of automated surveillance software for exams especially problematic and dystopian
@ChristophB @garyackerman Oh dear. Is that a common thing?
@margreta @ChristophB I’ve been able to deflect attempts to implement it, but interest is high in a small group of faculty I support.
