Publication Date
2022
Abstract
The use of edtech in schools is growing, as is a critical edtech research agenda. This research, combined with student activism, helps us understand the problematic impact of edtech and the way in which these predictive and coercive surveillance technologies pose a threat to students and educators’ ability to live self-directed lives. This chapter considers the use of QR codes for a digital hall pass system in one high school during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to examine how seemingly mundane uses of technologies can have a significant impact. Combining insights from critical edtech research with media literacy education can help us understand how we might resist the edtech imaginary and exercise a different relationship to technologies in our schools.
Journal or Book Title
Media Literacy, Equity, and Justice
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/68n4-5d54
Comments
Ciccone, M. (2022). Surveillance and the edtech imaginary via the mundane stuff of schooling. In Belinha S. De Abreu (Editor), Media Literacy, Equity, and Justice. Routledge.