Brock Education Journal· 2020
Age of Surveillance Capitalism – The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.
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Short summary
Educators adopting data-driven practices risk embracing surveillance capitalism, which poses ethical and privacy concerns by altering learning divisions, introducing private funding into research, and impacting student development.
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Key points
- Surveillance capitalism underpins many data-driven tools and ideologies used in education.
- Adoption of these methods raises significant ethical and privacy concerns for educators.
- Three central areas of concern for education are identified: changes to the division of learning, private money in research, and student development impacts.
- The work encourages questioning technological adoption at all educational levels.
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Abstract
As an educator have you recently heard the term or perhaps even been told to be data driven? Inherent in this simple two-word statement is a quagmire of ethical and privacy concerns that educators must confront to reach the goal and realize the expected results. Central to the concept of data-centered collection, interpretation, and prediction is surveillance capitalism from which many of the tools, methods, and ideology used originate. This review of Shoshana Zuboff's work narrows the focus to the implications for education both in the classroom and in research. As an educator, Zuboff describes three central areas of concern for education's adoption of surveillance capitalist methodologies: changes to the division of learning, private money in research, and the impacts on student development. The work presents many quesitons that can be raised at all levels of educaiton to quesiton technological adoption in and for the classroom.
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