Did Google take over the classroom? It certainly now looks like Workspace and Classroom are infrastructures underpinning education. So here's a bit of a reading list on Google in education:

"To uncritically embrace Google as the information infrastructure of education is to hand over power to one actor, which closes doors to alternative paths of doing and knowing in education." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

"Google extracts personal data from students, skirts laws intended to protect them, targets them for profits, obfuscates the company's intent in their Terms of Service, recommends harmful information, and distorts students’ knowledge." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"Google can disguise the presence of a business model for online marketing and, at the same time, simulate the practices and ethics of a free public service institution." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Google Classroom epitomizes a form of "platformized education" that is "rapidly proliferating across education systems, bringing logics of datafication, automation, surveillance, and interoperability into digitally mediated pedagogies." tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

How has Google penetrated education in different contexts? This online conference panel on Googlization of education in US, Europe and Australia gets at some comparative issues - but we need Global South insights too. media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedic…

"Google’s announcement of new AI functionalities reveals its continued plans for expansion across the education sector, and beyond, and its technical and economic power to reshape learning through automation." codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/03/17/goo…

If anyone else has other Google education papers, blogs, recordings, etc, please share!