Explore how profit-driven AI in education deepens inequalities through tiered access, data exploitation, and market segmentation. This analysis examines how corporate capitalism shapes EdTech development, why AI likely widens achievement gaps, and what policy interventions could ensure technology serves all students equitably.

A student growth portfolio redefines educational success by capturing a child’s evolving capabilities, dispositions, and potential across multiple dimensions. This approach applies investment principles to education, emphasizing long-term development, diversified learning pathways, and risk-taking within supportive environments.

The article examines how educational technology often creates more work rather than reducing it (the Jevons Paradox), and presents Connected Classroom as an alternative approach that uses technology to create space for deeper learning and meaningful human connections rather than accelerating the educational treadmill.