Taming EdTech
Why children stand to lose in an unregulated digitised classroom
In Taming EdTech, Dr Velislava Hillman explores how data-intensive educational technology (EdTech) transforms the classroom and the risks this poses to children’s privacy, rights, and future opportunities. With schools increasingly dependent on unregulated and advancing in capability data-intensive digital systems, the book calls for essential safeguards and robust governance to protect children’s rights to quality education and wellbeing.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Why a Book About Taming (Ed)Tech?
2. Digitising the Classroom: What Is the Problem?
3. Infrastructure Capture: What Might Be the ‘Big Picture’ of Digitising Education?
4. Automation: What Are the Risks of Automating Children’s Education?
5. Voice: What Do Children Say About the Digitised Classroom?
6. The Good Intentions of School: Why School Matters?
7. Governance By Distraction: Do the Tools of Oversight Guarantee the Benefits of Digitising Education?
8. Licensed To Operate: How to Fix a Fragmented Governance of EdTech?
2. Digitising the Classroom: What Is the Problem?
3. Infrastructure Capture: What Might Be the ‘Big Picture’ of Digitising Education?
4. Automation: What Are the Risks of Automating Children’s Education?
5. Voice: What Do Children Say About the Digitised Classroom?
6. The Good Intentions of School: Why School Matters?
7. Governance By Distraction: Do the Tools of Oversight Guarantee the Benefits of Digitising Education?
8. Licensed To Operate: How to Fix a Fragmented Governance of EdTech?
Key themes the book explores
Data Capitalism in Education
Unchecked growth in corporate control of educational data. Data powers the advancing of AI systems and with that – the creation of new markets and new forms of human control.
Surveillance and Privacy
The rise of datafication in schools impacts privacy, freedoms, equality and quality of education.
Regulating Tech in Education
The book outlines a proposed licensing framework to regulate edtech to safeguard quality education, the sovereignty of educational institutions, and children’s fundamental rights.
Taming EdTech
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Why Children Stand to Lose in an Unregulated Digitised Classroom is an urgent call for regulating digital technologies in schools, prioritizing children’s rights, and ensuring ethical standards in data usage.
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