11/11: Say NO to Big Tech Bullies in Colorado Schools!

On Wednesday, Nov. 11, join the Colorado chapters of the Distraction-Free Schools Policy Project, Schools Beyond Screens and Fairplay outside of the Google Boulder office in solidarity with other educators, caregivers and students across the U.S. who are fed up with Big Tech bullying schools into forced adoption of unfounded, unsafe and unnecessary technology products.

3-5 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11 @ Google Boulder - Pearl Street (2930 Pearl Street)
Gather at 3 p.m.
Rally at 4 p.m.
Contact: distractionfreeschoolsco@gmail.com, 720-648-8276

This is a child-friendly demonstration. WEAR GREEN and bring a sign! View and add some sign ideas at this link: bit.ly/dfscosignideas

Other national demonstrations: fournorms.com/organizations/four-norms/actions/fn-no-big-tech-bullies-in-our-schools-rallies-november-11

BACKGROUND:
On Nov. 3, Google announced that the company is making compulsory A.I. product changes for PreK-12 schools nationwide — effective immediately.

The changes state that Google-owned Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will be turned off for students until school administrators turn them on; and that the new Google “Guided Learning” A.I. chatbot — intended for children using Google Chromebooks issued by schools — is bundled into Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and Google Search and can’t be turned on or off separately by school administrators.

Big Tech companies like Google have been influencing school policy, curriculum and learning standards for children for decades.

The Colorado chapters of the Distraction-Free Schools Policy Project, Schools Beyond Screens and Fairplay are saying “NO” to Google bullying schools into adopting their unfounded, experimental and dangerous technology products.