Another problem with platforms is that they, by necessity, amass large swaths of data. Myriad forms of educational technology exist – from virtual reality headsets to e-readers to the small sensors on student ID cards that can track when students enter schools. And all of this student data is being funneled out of schools and into the virtual black boxes of company databases.
Big tech companies are collecting a constant stream of data from the general public everyday. It is unsettling to think of what they can do with that data to better serve them at the expense of our privacy.