Ben Williamson From everything I read, Black startups (esp. in the US) know this.

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Why are we not surprised - AI is PR, and it sells well (cloud infrastructure 🤓)

In other news, UK HE has reached the point where a 'half-day online writing retreat' is a thing

“EdTech firms conceptualise education as a market rather than as a common good.” Lulu says it as it is.

How Washington all too often works (and a big part of why I wrote Taming Silicon Valley) in three screenshots — with thanks to Ed Newton-Rex tolga bilge (from today) and Marietje Schaake (from August) for speaking truth to power.

This is not the way to a thriving, AI-positive…

Fascinating paper by Y. Mochizuki & E. Vickers on 'UNESCO, the geopolitics of AI, and China’s engagement with the futures of education'. 2nd published paper of the SI of Comparative Education on 'Global Governance and the Promissory Visions of Education'. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Second #blog on EdTech summits! 🌐

Pravindharan Balakrishnan reflects on the BETT Show, which in his view represents a global promissory agenda of education, invoking the “affective ideology of EdTech.”
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