He travels around the province pushing schools to get wired and by next year, his own school plans to have 464 terminals with Internet access. It's not that I don't notice it, but you are the first person to mention it. Overnight, with no public debate, ads have become an unremarkable part of public education. Even worse, the cash-strapped schools that are delivering their students to advertisers get nothing in return. But when it comes to technology, we don't just sell out we pay for the privilege.
Educators are already in way over their heads.
Led by mercenary Internet servers, phone companies and software manufacturers, they are leaping blindly into bad deals for students. Because they want to stay competitive with other educators, who are doing it too. These people should know better. They're the ones who make those bad peer pressure videos. Naomi Klein's column appears every Monday in the Toronto Star.