TY  - BOOK
AU  - Timothy Scott
PY  - 2025
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783034350488
TI  - Schooling for Silicon Valley
T2  - A critical examination of how and why education was entrusted to the tech industry, and its dire consequences in uncertain times
DO  - 10.3726/b23056
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1463497
N2  - 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.
KW  - New Jim Code, Schooling For Silicon Valley, Timothy Scott, techno-optimism, Skinnerism, gig work, smart cities, techno-feudalism, techno-scientism, hospicing modernity, ubiquitous web of surveillance and control, EdTech, Big Tech, Big Data and AI ecosystem, personalized learning, Generative AI
LA  - English
ER  -