An Ed-Tech Tragedy?
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies at a pace and scale with no historical precedent. For hundreds of millions of students, formal learning became fully dependent on technology – whether internet-connected digital devices, televisions or radios. An Ed-Tech...
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies at a pace and scale with no historical precedent. For hundreds of millions of students, formal learning became fully dependent on technology – whether internet-connected digital devices, televisions or radios. An Ed-Tech Tragedy? examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech. It documents how technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind and details the many ways education was diminished even when technology was available and worked as intended. Using tragedy as a metaphor and borrowing the organization of a three-act theatrical play, the book shows how technology-first modes of learning introduced novel health and safety risks, handed significant control of public education to for-profit companies, expanded invasive digital surveillance and carried detrimental environmental repercussions, in addition to adversely impacting educational access, equity, quality and outcomes in most contexts. Dedicated sections consider alternative and less technology-reliant educational responses to COVID-19 disruptions that had the potential to be more inclusive and equitable. The analysis further explains how pandemic models of learning are rippling beyond school closures and influencing the future of education. Holistically, the work invites readers to reconsider a turbulent chapter in education history and reexamine the purposes and roles of technology in education. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1686402025-10-24T05:33:33Z An Ed-Tech Tragedy? West, Mark educational technology critique technology solutionism learning access barriers student wellbeing risks commercial influence education inclusive teaching strategies pandemic impact on school leadership thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNQ Open learning, distance education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNU Teaching of a specific subject thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education::JNMT Teacher training thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNT Teaching skills and techniques thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNK Educational administration and organization thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNL Schools and pre-schools::JNLB Primary and middle schools thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNL Schools and pre-schools::JNLC Secondary schools The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies at a pace and scale with no historical precedent. For hundreds of millions of students, formal learning became fully dependent on technology – whether internet-connected digital devices, televisions or radios. An Ed-Tech Tragedy? examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech. It documents how technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind and details the many ways education was diminished even when technology was available and worked as intended. Using tragedy as a metaphor and borrowing the organization of a three-act theatrical play, the book shows how technology-first modes of learning introduced novel health and safety risks, handed significant control of public education to for-profit companies, expanded invasive digital surveillance and carried detrimental environmental repercussions, in addition to adversely impacting educational access, equity, quality and outcomes in most contexts. Dedicated sections consider alternative and less technology-reliant educational responses to COVID-19 disruptions that had the potential to be more inclusive and equitable. The analysis further explains how pandemic models of learning are rippling beyond school closures and influencing the future of education. Holistically, the work invites readers to reconsider a turbulent chapter in education history and reexamine the purposes and roles of technology in education. 2025-10-24T05:33:32Z 2025-10-24T05:33:32Z 2025-10-23T08:17:51Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T101257_9781040435861_34 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107764 9781040435861 9781041123668 9781040435878 9781041123675 9781003664406 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168640 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107764/1/9781040435861.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003664406 10.4324/9781003664406 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040435861 9781041123668 9781040435878 9781041123675 9781003664406 Routledge 660 Oxford open access |
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