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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 21/11/19 17:42:26
Added files:
server/staging : edtech-against-software-freedom.html
Log message:
First draft for a new article as per www-discuss 11/18/21. The name of
the page is indicative, as well as the position of the page withing the
education directory.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/edtech-against-software-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: edtech-against-software-freedom.html
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
+<title>Ed Tech Corporations Against Software Freedom
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen" />
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<div class="nav">
+<a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks">
+ <img id="side-menu-icon" height="25" width="31"
+ src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
+ title="Education Contents"
+ alt=" [Education Contents] " />
+</a>
+
+<p class="breadcrumb">
+ <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="26" width="26"
+ alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> /
+ <a href="/education/education.html">Education</a> /
+ <a href="/education/education.html#edtech">Ed Tech</a> /</p>
+</div>
+
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+
+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+<div id="last-div" class="article reduced-width">
+
+<h2>Ed Tech Corporations Against Software Freedom</h2>
+
+<div class="article">
+<p>Tech corporations <a href="#note1" id="note1-rev">[1]</a> are taking
+over the field of education by pushing their proprietary products into
+educational institutions of all levels. Proprietary applications loaded with
+malicious functionalities such as surveillance and collection of sensitive
+personal data—among many others—are being imposed on schools'
+staff, teachers, students, and even parents. With the rapid expansion of
+online teaching, these proprietary educational technologies not only spread
+dramatically across schools, but they went from the classroom to the home.</p>
+
+<p>Proprietary video conferencing software—as well as other programs
+used for communications between students and teachers, and some nonfree
+educational resources—are tethered to online dis-services that
+collect large amounts of personal data. The school may have to agree to
+the company's unjust terms of dis-service. The school, in turn, will
+typically force students to create an account on the dis-service, which
+includes agreeing to the terms.</p>
+
+<p>Nonfree Ed Tech fails to assist the learning process by forbidding
+students to study the programs they are required to use, thus opposing
+the very <a href="/education/edu-schools.html">nature and purpose of
+education</a>. It does not allow school administrators and teachers to
+safeguard students' rights by forbidding them to inspect the source code
+of the programs they run <a href="#note2" id="note2-rev">[2]</a>. It
+does not enable parents to make sure their children are protected from
+surveillance, data collection, and other mistreatment by the owner of the
+proprietary program.</p>
+
+<p>This is not to say that educational technology is a bad approach <i>per
+se</i>. The problem arises when the software used in Ed Tech is nonfree,
+meaning it denies students the rights that <a
+href="/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms">free software</a> grants
+all users.</p>
+
+<p><a href="/education/edu-team.html">Join us</a> in the fight against the
+use of nonfree software in schools.</p>
+
+<h3>Other text (written by RMS) that can be useful to complement the above
+or for inspiration:</h3>
+
+<p>Edtech companies are already developing great power over the students
+in the schools where they operate, and it will get worse. They use
+their surveillance power to manipulate students, and to direct students
+into tracks towards various levels of knowledge, power and prestige.</p>
+
+<p>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2021/10/25/algorithmic-injustice-in-education-why-tech-companies-should-require-a-license-to-operate-in-childrens-education/</p>
+
+<p>They also structure their relationships so that they are never held
responsible
+for the consequences.</p>
+
+<p>The article argues that these companies should need to have licenses
+to operate. I am not against that, but I would go further. I say
+that the data acquired in a school about any student must not leave
+the school's control: whatever computers it gets onto must belong to
+the school and run free software. That way the school district and/or
+parents can control what it does with those data.</p>
+</div>
+
+<h3 class="footnote">Eventual notes go here</h3>
+<ol>
+<li><a href="#note1-rev" id="note1">↑</a> Text of note 1.</li>
+
+<li><a href="#note2-rev" id="note2">↑</a> Text of note 2.</li>
+</ol>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/education/education-menu.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org";><gnu@gnu.org></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org";><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
+ <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
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+
+<p>Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2021/11/19 22:42:26 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
+</body>
+</html>
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