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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 / Timothy Scott.
Van Pelt Library LB1028.3 .S379 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Timothy, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational technology--United States.
- Educational technology.
- Education--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 438 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2026]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue : a brief history of the origins of U.S. public education
- A new age of education?
- EdTech and the big data ecosystem of domination
- The bigger picture
- Assessing the evidence and exposing the scientism of EdTech
- Techno-lords, data colonizers, and human-machine authority.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version Scott, Timothy (Social work professor) Schooling for Silicon Valley
- ISBN:
- 9783034350501
- 3034350503
- OCLC:
- 1531192181
- Publisher Number:
- 90104276623
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