Draft:Education by algorithm
Education by algorithms refers to the instrumentalist “educational reforms” and “curriculum transformations”, which have been implemented by policy makers and are supported by proprietary education technologies.[1]. New educational policies, mandated by the OECD who have manufactured a connection between economies and education.[2] Governments, schools and universities are expected to introduce or prepare students for an “unknown future” to address an identified issue or mitigate a national crisis. Technologies are seen as a catalyst to effect these changes. However, these policies mask a deeper problem, which is the assetisation of education[3]and technologies have become a means for surveillance.[4] The traces that students and leave, through cookies, logins learning activities, assignments and tests, are collected, facetted, and shared with commercial organizations, to both predict future behavior and shape it.[5] Big tech has adopted educational policies and reforms, offering technologies freely, positioning them as disrupters, liberators or mechanisms to improve efficiency. This has enabled surveillance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many more students had to modify their learning and working circumstances to protect themselves. Big tech assisted, and teaching infrastructure was privatized thus unbundling education provision further. Surveillance became rationalized in education.[6]
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