For the past 15 years, I’ve been interested in how technologies can be used to strengthen our classrooms. Technology has always played a role in the development of our educational systems. The technology of pen, printing press, computer, world wide web, and now artificial intelligence, has been and continues to be used to shape and re-shape the ways we develop.
The issues presented by the Cambridge Analytica scandal create concerns over who is controlling the information we’re viewing, who is viewing us, and then in general whose world are we viewing. Effectively are we moving from state-controlled curricula to private enterprise curated materials? In addition, the control people have can mean they always consume similar content about items of interest to them.