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Edtech is treating students like products. Here's how we can protect children's digital rights

  • Written by Tiffani Apps, Senior Lecturer in Digital Technologies for Learning, University of Wollongong
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Schools’ use of educational technologies (edtech) grew exponentially at the height of COVID lockdowns. A recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has exposed children’s rights violations by providers of edtech endorsed by governments in Australia and overseas.

The lockdowns have ended but edtech remains embedded in education....

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