My experience primarily during my brief time as a substitute teacher was a reflection of Google's dominance in the K-12 education space.
At stake: the roughly $43 billion worldwide market for educational hardware and software, which is expected to double by 2020, even as the global PC market declines and tablet sales slow. And the significance extends beyond the classroom. If students develop familiarity with an operating system at an early age, or so the thinking goes, they will prefer it in their future professional lives.
So as all of this education is being further pushed online due to the pandemic, we are finding what Google hopes to be lifetime consumers of their products. The part that sketches me out, is how much of the data is Google who has been known to take every little piece of data from their users in order to repackage them to advertisers.. how much of the students data are they selling? A disturbing prospect if one really thinks about it.
My experience primarily during my brief time as a substitute teacher was a reflection of Google's dominance in the K-12 education space.
So as all of this education is being further pushed online due to the pandemic, we are finding what Google hopes to be lifetime consumers of their products. The part that sketches me out, is how much of the data is Google who has been known to take every little piece of data from their users in order to repackage them to advertisers.. how much of the students data are they selling? A disturbing prospect if one really thinks about it.