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Don’t Be Evil: Should We Use Google in Schools?
- Source :
- Techtrends
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer US, 2021.
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Abstract
- Google is a multinational technology company whose massive advertising profits have allowed them to expand into many areas, including education. While the company has increasingly faced public scrutiny, the use of Google software and hardware in schools has often resulted in little debate. In this paper, we conduct a technoethical audit of Google to address ethical, legal, democratic, economic, technological, and pedagogical concerns educators, students, and community members might consider. We describe how Google extracts personal data from students, skirts laws intended to protect them, targets them for profits, obfuscates the company's intent in their Terms of Service, recommends harmful information, and distorts students' knowledge. We propose that educators and scholars more closely interrogate the tools of Google and other technology companies to move toward more democratic and just uses of technology in schools.
- Subjects :
- Scrutiny
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050801 communication & media studies
Audit
Education
0508 media and communications
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
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Original Paper
Surveillance capitalism
business.industry
05 social sciences
Educational technology
050301 education
Public relations
Technoskepticism
Google
Technoethics
Democracy
Computer Science Applications
Terms of service
Multinational corporation
Google Workspace for Education
Business
0503 education
Discriminatory design
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15597075 and 87563894
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Techtrends
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cdac82b2385b12219810ac15c6eb4054