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A growing body of evidence reveals how EdTech is a vital apparatus of Big Tech's ubiquitous web of surveillance and control bound to larger political, economic and cultural forces. Tech companies design platforms that inflict a range of emotional, cognitive, physical and developmental harms on children, and replace human relationships with technologies that cannot provide the authentic emotional and empathetic experiences that are essential for healthy development and well-being.
GenAI is fast becoming crucial infrastructure for education systems, despite its record for augmenting bigotry, generating false information and enabling cheating. Ultimately, EdTech prioritizes obedience and subverts critical literacy.
This book meticulously applies critical and cultural theory to analyze the discourse of industry narratives alongside counternarratives and hard evidence that expose EdTech's role as a compulsory appendage of the exploitive and autocratic designs of the Big Data and AI ecosystem.
