Private digital platforms in public education. Emerging privacy and data protection challenges.
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https://doi.org/10.21556/edutec.2024.87.3063Keywords:
digital platforms, schools, privacy, data protectionAbstract
This article examines the perceptions of the main representatives of the educational community on the use of digital platforms in educational environments, focusing on privacy and data protection issues. A qualitative methodology with an ethnographic approach was adopted to analyze six specific cases in different educational institutions in Catalonia, including primary and secondary schools. Data collection involved interviews and discussion groups with management teams, teachers and students. From an inductive approach to the speech, it is observed that all the actors involved demonstrated a common awareness of the importance of privacy and data protection in the digital age. However, the differences are evident in the way in which each group. The article concludes that it is necessary to to study this problem further to build an alternative and equitable digital ecosystem that avoid exposing people, and especially, students.
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This article arises from the development of the edDit project "Technological corporations, digital educational platforms and guaranteeing children's rights with a gender focus", carried out by the Esbrina Consolidated Research Group of the University of Barcelona (2021 SGR 00686), in collaboration with aFFaC (Federated Associations of Families of Students of Catalonia) and has been funded by the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD) (grants for development projects and development education, call 2021ACC145/21/000103).
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