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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647498203321

Autore

Saltman Kenneth J. <1969->

Titolo

The alienation of fact : digital educational privatization, AI, and the false promise of bodies and numbers / / Kenneth J. Saltman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]

ISBN

0-262-37174-X

0-262-37173-1

9780262371735

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Disciplina

370.285

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence - Educational applications

Privatization in education

Verification (Empiricism)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Alienation of Fact AI and the Digital Educational Privatization New Directions of Global Educational Privatization The Lego Foundation and the Quantification of Play Conspiracy Against Theory Trust in Numbers, Distrust in Experts "Privilege-Checking", "Virtue-Signaling", "Affinity Groups", and "Safe Spaces" Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Saltman wrestles with the contradiction between the demand for radical empiricism ("data driven" everything) in contemporary education, and the flight from evidence in the enactment of policy and politics"--