A Day in the Life

Artificial Intellegence & Surveillance

"Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students. A growing number of classrooms in China are equipped with artificial-intelligence cameras and brain-wave trackers. While many parents and teachers see them as tools to improve grades, they’ve become some children’s worst nightmare" (WSJ).

Parents are willfully giving consent to have Artificial Intellegence (AI) monitor their children's learning in the classroom - under the guise of boosting educator and student achievements.

In a classroom, students wear a headband that contain three electrodes that sit behind the ears and on the forehead. These sensors pick up the electrical signals being processed in the brain, similar to an Electroencephalography (EGG).

Combined with data collected from the video surveillance of and interpreted with AI, new learning algorithms are produced.

Governments desiring to increase students engagement, performance, and outcomes, universally began adopting this technology into their Compulsory Education (Wikipedia) systems.

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Privatization of Education

In an ongoing struggle in American politics, the divisions between public and private education spaces only grew larger. It started simply... as a small diversion of funds to support private - often well funded - education programs. Forcing programs in lower income, marginalized, and minority communities, to loose access to education programs.

School Vouchers – An Enduring Racist Practice (National Education Association)

These small actions carried forward, and had larger repercussions across the public education sector, as public school buildings have been collapsing from inadequate funding for some time. Any small diversion of funds only exasperated the issue.

Public school buildings are falling apart, and students are suffering for it (Washington Post)

As technology continued to be ever increased into the education systems, these actions contributed to increasing the Digital Divide (Wikipedia).

Technology for individuals... (PCs for People)

In the efforts to hold onto compulsory education, governments had to take action and evolved, absorbing many nonprofit tech providers. Pushing more funds to technology, while diverting funds from buildings... education moved from physical spaces to blended virtual spaces.

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