During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were forced to pivot from in-person education to online learning, many using the billions of dollars of federal government pandemic aid to invest in EdTech, software, and other technology. EdTech’s rapid adoption quickly became a growing concern for educators, students, and parents, often because the functionality of these tools and the data collected by them lack transparency, and general-use technologies that often lack the safeguards of those developed specifically for education use.
