Should schools have greater oversight of edtech?
As edtech becomes more commonplace across school estates, is it time to provide leaders with more information about the firms they are...
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- Jun 16
- 19 min
4 Ways the New EU Digital Acts Fall Short and How to Remedy It
There has been an outpouring of enthusiasm for the EU’s recent efforts to address digital giants. After a year of relative quiet...
- May 26
- 5 min
Many EdTech companies exploit children’s data, says Human Rights Watch report
A new report by Human Rights Watch confirmed that children are exploited through many seemingly innocuous – and often government endorsed...
- May 12
- 4 min
The promise and perils of education data
Education budgets are tied to how well a school performs, as demonstrated by data. Education data interoperability is called for to...
- Apr 22
- 4 min
Algorithmic personalization is disrupting a healthy teaching environment
The UK government has given no sign of when it plans to regulate digital technology companies. In contrast, the US Federal Trade...
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Edtech procurement matters: It needs a coherent solution, clear governance and market standards
Digital technologies have come to mediate every educational process - from operations and management to teaching and assessment. While...
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Corporate influence in career and technical education through data extraction
This paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Learning, Media and Technology addresses families’ perceptions of corporate influence...
- Mar 23
- 4 min
How cybersecure are EdTech products in the classroom?
In this post, which first appeared on the 5Rights Foundation | Digital Futures Commission blog, Dr Velislava Hillman argues that products...
- Feb 21
- 6 min
How big businesses are colonizing the classroom
Parents say their children’s education suffers when career and technical education programs are tailored to the needs of corporations....
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Standards are coming. Are education technology companies prepared?
Ahead of Safer Internet Day, EDDS founder and LSE Visiting Fellow Dr Velislava Hillman asserts that the newly proposed IEEE standards for...
- Jan 15
- 2 min
Data privacy literacy as a subversive instrument to datafication
To learn about the risks from their data privacy loss, children need look no further. Digitalized education has propelled constant data...
- Nov 3, 2021
- 5 min
Algorithmic (in)justice in education: Why tech companies should require a license to operate
In the wake of yet another storm of revelations about the merciless practices of powerful technology companies, Velislava Hillman,...
- Oct 29, 2021
- 3 min
Towards a national EdTech regulatory authority (ETRA)
EDDS envisions a dedicated regulatory body that should be set up to oversee education technology (edtech) operators whose role in...
- Oct 21, 2021
- 1 min
Schooling the workforce
Vocational education has been rebranded and retooled as career and technical education. But beneath CTE's 21st century veneer lurks an...
- Jul 14, 2021
- 6 min
Big Tech firms can’t be trusted to decide children’s futures
By Velislava Hillman Ioanna Noula Ben Wagner The rise of online learning during the pandemic has accelerated the...
- Jul 7, 2021
- 4 min
New European laws must protect children’s data
As education becomes increasingly reliant on technology, the need for regulation and oversight of the EdTech industry becomes more...
- Jul 1, 2021
- 7 min
EdTech users cannot consent. The EU must act fast
Technology is being increasingly used in education, particularly as schools closed around the world as a result of the pandemic. EDDS ...
- Jun 22, 2021
- 5 min
Is the only response to constant surveillance the right to remain silent?
The growing prevalence of ed-tech in schools has prompted concerns over the ability of students (and parents) to develop informed...
- Jun 18, 2021
- 7 min
EdTech in schools – a threat to data privacy?
In this post,Velislava Hillman argues that it is essential to consider the implications of the increasing use of technology within...
- Jun 18, 2021
- 8 min
Parenting and learning in a time of global pandemic: what policy makers and school leaders should do
Roughly 1.5 billion children globally are out of school due to the pandemic. As many schools turned to online learning, preliminary...