Schools normalize surveillant software by passively adopting it

Evidence

What I’d like to argue here is that the power of these strategies is doubly amplified by their normalization within institutions of schooling. By passively accepting digital tools that deny users the right to study and modify code, exploit user data, and impose surveillance and control on users, we are teaching students that these technological qualities are natural, neutral, and inevitable. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 540

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tech firms court schools to capture lifelong consumer loyalties — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 544; Continuous classroom monitoring is marketed as an empowering selling point — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 535; Edu-tech firms frame pre-digital schooling as a deficient factory model — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 532 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Continuous classroom monitoring is marketed as an empowering selling point #exemplifies (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 535
• Surveillance-based schooling constructs individuality only as a position in a sequence #expands (0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 262
• Edu-tech firms frame pre-digital schooling as a deficient factory model #expands (0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 532