Children, education, and technologies: current debates, key concerns, and future directions around data privacy, surveillance, and datafcation
Hillman, V., Manolev, J., Johnston, S. K., Kumar, P. C., Martin, F., Zeide, E., Vladova, G. & Lai, R.
(2024).
Children, education, and technologies: current debates, key concerns, and future directions around data privacy, surveillance, and datafcation.
In
Handbook of Children and Screens: Digital Media, Development, and Well-Being from Birth Through Adolescence
(pp. 557-567).
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69362-5_76
In this chapter, we discuss the impact of digitizing education, the risks of datafication, data privacy loss, and surveillance, and their implications for children's fundamental rights and freedoms. While debates around digital media's impact on children's health and development have grown, our goal is to present the most pertinent concerns emerging from the use of education technologies (edtech), focusing on data collection and surveillance in Anglo-American (Western) contexts. We shed light on the gaps in literature and provide recommendations addressing education stakeholders.
