"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 The trend of schools outsourcing tech has surprised me for some time. My undergrad years were at a school that was on the cutting edge (as a research institution should be) and developed their own tech in house. In fact they shared that tech openly with other institutions. Now the same school outsources (something as simple as) email to Google. What happened?
