Growing parent-led backlash challenges EdTech's role in American classrooms
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Summary
A growing backlash against educational technology (EdTech) in American schools is gaining momentum, led by alarmed parents and educators. The article highlights how tools like Google Chromebooks and i-Ready's MyPath software, which were promised to deliver personalized and frictionless learning, have instead delivered mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. Using the example of a nine-year-old student in LAUSD who initially found Chromebooks exciting but quickly grew bored, the piece argues that the EdTech industry has failed students and that a parent-led movement is now pushing back against these digital tools in classrooms.
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Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students.
A growing movement led by alarmed parents is saying, 'Enough.'
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