Taming EdTech: Why Children Stand to Lose in an Unregulated Digitised Classroom

Author:   Velislava Hillman (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350439801


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 November 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Taming EdTech: Why Children Stand to Lose in an Unregulated Digitised Classroom


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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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Author:   Velislava Hillman (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350439801


ISBN 10:   1350439800
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: why a book about governing edtech? 1. Digitising the classroom: what’s the problem and is there a bigger picture? 2. Infrastructure capture: shouldn’t we worry about edtech businesses’ growing influence in education? 3. The panopticon classroom: how surveillance and datafication destroy the good intentions of School? 4. Automation: what are the risks of automating children’s futures? 5. Voice: what are children’s rights and agency in a digitised education? 6. Governance by distraction: what guarantees that digitising education works in children’s best interests? 7. Licensed to operate: how to fix the fragmented governance of edtech? Conclusion References Index

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Velislava Hillman is Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Founder of EDDS (Education Data Digital Sovereignty), UK. She is also a Fellow at the National Education Policy Centre, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

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