Velislava Hillman

As education becomes more dependent on data-intensive algorithmic systems, private corporate power continues to grow. Left unregulated, the implications for children’s basic rights and future life chances are not to be underestimated. In Taming EdTech, Velislava Hillman argues that datafication, i.e. turning all human actions into data, and surveillance have been normalised in educational settings and shows how edtech products...