The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started
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.”
When nine-year-old Sunny entered second grade at his Los Angeles public school three years ago, a surprise awaited him: a personal Google Chromebook to use in his classes and take home each afternoon. “Everyone was obsessed with the Chromebooks,” he recalls. Sunny was excited too, “but then it started to get boring.” At the time, principals and teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) were under pressure from Superintendent Alberto Carvalho to increase engagement with MyPath, a component of a widely used (and widely loathed) digital product called i-Ready. MyPath was…
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