Counteraction toothers’ learning and their Trojan Horse teaching: digital technologies in social practices and research

Counteraction to others’ learning and their “Trojan horse” teaching (deceptive teaching that benefits the organizer and disadvantages the learners) is an urgent problem in various fields. Computer technologies play an increasingly important role in the organization of this counteraction and “Trojan horse” teaching. The technologies are used at different levels: from computer-to-computer adversarial poisoning attacks on machine learning to fraud in human interactions. In the article, some aspects of this problem are analyzed.
An empirical study of people’s help and counteraction to others’ learning in a competitive video game is presented. It arouses the participants’ keen interest and provides an opportunity to study strategies of help and counteraction to others’ learning. The methodology is promising in relation to further study of the topic — e. g., studies of relationships between the strategies invented by participants and their cognitive and personal characteristics, design of new methods based on it, etc.
In general, one can assume that development of technologies will continue to make significant contributions to interweaving of two fundamental types of interactions: (a) help to learning and development; and (b) counteraction to them.

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