So, we're supposed to throw our hands up in the air and just allow surveillance and tracking as companies wish? Or allow schools to train kids to use google or apple so they become customers later on?
Technology -can- improve learning, definitely. This does not mean it -does- improve learning in every case. Regular software (especially for businesses) is often crap, so why would educational software necessarily be any better or enhance learning?
> and seems to have a lack of rigor
This is like saying "2+2=4" seems to have a lack of rigor. Google doing stuff like this should be a surprise to no one. This behavior targeting teachers, who frequently lack time and money, is almost predatory.
This is such a dismissive, prototypical HN comment on a post where someone is trying to bring light to an issue.
How much rigor should we ask of evidence showing it's bad? Does the evidence showing it's good clear that bar?
You CAN have one without the other, and I think we should create the world our children need, not the one that's more conveient for them.