{"id":42569,"date":"2025-09-01T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/ive-seen-how-big-tech-has-transformed-the-classroom-and-parents-are-right-to-be-worried-velislava-hillman\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:05:17","slug":"ive-seen-how-big-tech-has-transformed-the-classroom-and-parents-are-right-to-be-worried-velislava-hillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/ive-seen-how-big-tech-has-transformed-the-classroom-and-parents-are-right-to-be-worried-velislava-hillman\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve seen how big tech has transformed the classroom \u2013 and parents are right to be worried | Velislava Hillman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve examined how commercial technologies reshape education \u2013 often in ways parents instinctively resist, but are told to ignore<\/p>\n<p>Dr Velislava Hillman is an academic, teacher, writer and consultant on educational technology and policy.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet transformation is unfolding in schools: commercial technology is rapidly reshaping how children learn, often without much public debate or inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>From the near-ubiquity of Google and Microsoft to speculative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/31\/educators-teachers-ai-learning-classrooms-misuse\">AI products<\/a> such as Century Tech, big and ed tech alike promise \u201cpersonalised learning\u201d while harvesting vast amounts of data and turning education to monetisable widgets and digital badges.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Velislava Hillman is an academic, teacher, writer and consultant on educational technology and policy. She is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/taming-edtech-9781350439795\/\">Taming Edtech<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/sep\/01\/big-tech-classroom-parents-education\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve examined how commercial technologies reshape education \u2013 often in ways parents instinctively resist, but are told to ignore Dr Velislava Hillman is an academic, teacher, writer and consultant on educational technology and policy. A quiet transformation is unfolding in schools: commercial technology is rapidly reshaping how children learn, often without much public debate or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}