Debates About EdTech in a Time of Pandemics Should Include Youth’s Voices

Hillman, Velislava; Martins, João; Ogu, Emmanuel C.

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“…The recent health pandemic propelled the digitalisation of education through an explosion of commercial education technologies (edtech) coming into the classroom (and outside it), which have enabled a constant torrent of data generation. As a result, concerns continue to grow regarding student surveillance (Williamson 2019;Hillman 2022), behavioural control (Andrejevic and Selwyn 2020), digital rights (Livingstone, Atabey, and Pothong 2021), and students' and teachers' role and voice in the classroom (Hillman et al 2021). In their effort to tackle post-pandemic learning loss, policies globally have let in the private sector of edtech providers into public education (Bozkurt et al 2020; United Kingdom Department for Education [DfE] 2020), with no concrete solutions for governing their growing power and the constant generation of education data.…”

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Bringing in the technological, ethical, educational and social-structural for a new education data governance

Hillman

2022

Learning, Media and Technology

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The need for a comprehensive education data governance -the regulation of who collects what data, how it is used and why -continues to grow. Technologically, data can be collected by third parties, rendering schools unable to control their use. Legal frameworks partially achieve data governance as businesses continue to exploit existing loopholes. Education data use practices undergo no prior ethical reviews. And at a personal level, students have no agency over these practices. In other words, there is no coherent and meaningful oversight and data governance framework that ensures accountable data use in an increasingly digitalised education sector. In this article, I contextualise the issues arising from education data transactions in one school district in the United States. The case study helps to contextualise what needs governance, who may access education data and how the district governs data use and transactions, emphasising the need for a coherent education data governance but also the limitations of such isolated efforts.

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Bringing in the technological, ethical, educational and social-structural for a new education data governance

Hillman

2022

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The Voice of the Pandemic Generation

Jandrić

2021

Postdigit Sci Educ

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Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

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Jandrić

2021

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It's not surprising that the extent of the US's deficit financing is turning heads. President Biden's $1.9 trillion deficit stimulus package comes on top of Trump's stimulus of $2.35 trillion which doesn't include the Federal Reserve's estimated $4 trillion. The US Government has devoted over $6 trillion to banishing Covid-19 and economic recovery. These statistics dwarf anything in the past including the Great Depression and US participation in WWII. Calvin Woodward (2021) describes it as 'surreal economics' at warp speed. The only saving grace is that borrowing is cheap. Some critics with little understanding of the accumulated debt think that the current stimulus might see the US economy outpace China for the first time in 45 years (Chan, 2021).Although as Ceyhun Elgin et al. ( 2020) have demonstrated the US deficit financing and fiscal response to Covid-19 as a percentage of GDP is well below Japan, Luxemburg, Belgium, and Malta (all above 15%) and Austria, Qatar, Slovenia, Singapore and the Netherlands (between 10-15%). US debt held by the public as a share of GDP is about 107%. Andrew Van Damm (2020) suggests: 'This year, for the first time since World War II, the United States will owe more than its economy can produce in a given year, the nonpartisan committee estimates. That's expected to rise to 107 percent by 2025 and as high as 120 percent by 2030 … ' Elgin et al. (2020) have suggested that public health measures including 'closures, travel restrictions, and city lockdowns' have disrupted supply chains and led to lay-offs while monetary policies have increased liquidity to banks and included transfers to households, the unemployed and the public health system. They develop an Economic Stimulus Index (CESI) after a review of economic policies adopted by 166 countries as a response to Covid-19 pandemic showing significant correlations of for example, GDP per capita health expenditures with economic stimulus packages.The sheer size of the US's Covid-19 fiscal stimulus response indicates some qualms about the government underwriting of share markets still bubbling as though there is no problem indicating the extent to which these markets seem to have decoupled from the ongoing distress of civil society. Other economies have been concerned with preventing financial system risk while keeping an eye on the debt-to-GDP ratio. China, the only economy which grew in 2020, devoted an equivalent US trillion fighting the effects of the virus and Hong Kong, some $40 billion. Japan provided a trillion dollars in liquidity and four stimulus spending packages of over a couple of US trillion. The EU provided a raft of stimulus packages expanding its PEPP program to a total of $2.24 trillion while also increasing Central Bank liquidity. The world economy shrank by 3.5% and most governments around the world followed similar stimulus response packages with an accent of relief to households and the unemployed (Alpert, 2021). Cassim et al. (2020) of McKinsey & Company reported some $10 trillion rescue in first two months of ...

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Debates About EdTech in a Time of Pandemics Should Include Youth’s Voices

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Bringing in the technological, ethical, educational and social-structural for a new education data governance

Bringing in the technological, ethical, educational and social-structural for a new education data governance

The Voice of the Pandemic Generation

Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

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