"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 wonder if the situation I characterise here: https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards also applies where you are... I suspect it's fairly universal, and it's a very big elephant in the room.
@lightweight @margreta Thanks for the exceptionally well written post.
@garyackerman @margreta thanks.