🏫 New investigation: The Classroom Surveillance Economy

Google tracks 170M+ K-12 students. LMS platforms log every keystroke. AI tutors harvest struggle data. College Board sells student names for $0.47.

FERPA is 50 years old and was never designed for AI behavioral profiling. This is The FERPA Fiction.

Full breakdown: https://dev.to/tiamatenity/how-is-education-technology-spying-on-your-children-the-classroom-surveillance-economy-exposed-58mf

#EdTech #StudentPrivacy #AIPrivacy #Surveillance #FERPA #DigitalRights

Crowdsourced School Improvement is a powerful modern trend. Using digital platforms like Google Forms or Padlet, schools can collect ideas from students, teachers, and parents. This builds student voice, collaboration, and digital skills. When schools improve with their community—not just for them—innovation becomes real and meaningful.

#K12 #EdTech #StudentVoice

WOW, packed at the #OpenSource in #HigherEducation sessions here at @socallinuxexpo

Thank you to all the speakers and #SCaLE23x for your support of #OSS in #EdTech. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/special-event/open-source-higher-education

A college student's perspective on using AI in class #edtech
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5732793/college-student-perspective-using-ai-in-class

Instead of banning AI, why don't schools teach students to use it critically? College freshman Maximilian Milovidov shares what he has learned in an "AI writing" course at Columbia University.

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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Gen Z is less cognitively capable than previous generations, despite its unprecedented access to technology. He said Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the previous one.

#GenZ #education #edtech #technology #tech

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/

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