Schooling for Silicon Valley
A critical examination of how and why education was entrusted to the tech industry, and its dire consequences in uncertain times
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2025
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
978-3-0343-5050-1 (ISBN)
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
978-3-0343-5050-1 (ISBN)
This book reveals how and why EdTech serves as a vital apparatus of the Big Data and AI ecosystem's ubiquitous web of surveillance and control tied to larger political, economic and cultural forces, which prioritize obedience over critical literacy, and undermine authentic human relationships that are crucial to healthy development and well-being.
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.
“As schools around the world hurtle towards wholesale embrace of more and more forms of EdTech, Timothy Scott flashes big bright red stoplights by not only debunking deceptive marketing but also illuminating the profoundly antidemocratic origins and dystopian futures of a wide range of technologies with breathtaking depth and breadth. Schooling for Silicon Valley is brilliant, eyeopening, compelling, and a must-read for anyone concerned about education, especially now.” —Kevin Kumashiro, Author of Surrendered: Why Progressives are Losing the Biggest Battles in Education
“This provocative and timely volume offers an exceedingly well researched expose of the ways that technology companies are warping teaching and learning. As corporations falsely assert that tech can replace teachers and algorithms can replace meaningful curriculum, this book gives us our talking points for resisting tech giants and their government allies.” —Celia Oyler, Professor Emerita of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
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.
“As schools around the world hurtle towards wholesale embrace of more and more forms of EdTech, Timothy Scott flashes big bright red stoplights by not only debunking deceptive marketing but also illuminating the profoundly antidemocratic origins and dystopian futures of a wide range of technologies with breathtaking depth and breadth. Schooling for Silicon Valley is brilliant, eyeopening, compelling, and a must-read for anyone concerned about education, especially now.” —Kevin Kumashiro, Author of Surrendered: Why Progressives are Losing the Biggest Battles in Education
“This provocative and timely volume offers an exceedingly well researched expose of the ways that technology companies are warping teaching and learning. As corporations falsely assert that tech can replace teachers and algorithms can replace meaningful curriculum, this book gives us our talking points for resisting tech giants and their government allies.” —Celia Oyler, Professor Emerita of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr Timothy Scott is a social work professor at Central Connecticut State University who has extensive experience in a range of social justice projects and liberation movements. He received his doctorate in social justice education from UMass Amherst with an emphasis on political economy, ethnic studies, and education policy.
Acknowledgments - Methodologies - Prologue, A Brief History of the Origins of U.S. Public Education - Chapter One, A New Age of Education? - Chapter Two, EdTech and the Big Data Ecosystem of Domination - Chapter Three, The Bigger Picture - Chapter Four, Assessing the Evidence and Exposing the Scientism of EdTech - Chapter Five, Techno-Lords, Data Colonizers, and Human-Machine Authority Regimes in an Unsustainable World - Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2025 |
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| Verlagsort | Pieterlen |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik | |
| ISBN-10 | 3-0343-5050-3 / 3034350503 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-0343-5050-1 / 9783034350501 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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