I am very happy to be speaking at next week's ICT4S (ICT for Sustainability) conference ... I will be beaming in to talk for the first time about some of the main theme from my new 2025 book 'Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures' ... conf.researchr.org/home/ict4s-202…

new article! Schools are increasingly using surveillance software to monitor students' laptop use & decide who is 'on-task' and who is 'off-task' ... *these* are the mundane forms of educational AI that we need to be paying close attention to! ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surv…

New PhD scholarship - 3.5 years, full-time, domestic students only (Aus/NZ) - any topic that aligns with our 'Teachers and Teaching in the Age of AI' ARC research project! (closing date for application: July 31st 2024) ... for more details + to apply:
edumon.wufoo.com/forms/2024-mon…

Listen to my chat with Kristiina Brunila about the rise of ‘Precision Education Governance’ – i.e. the push to reform education through markets, digital tech, standardised measurements, behavioural sciences & nudging people to perform in the 'right' way: soundcloud.com/eetheducatione…

Reminder: The Monash Education School of Education, Culture & Society is recruiting a Professor w/ research focus on education + gender and/or race inequalities.
App deadline is July 4th. Come join us!
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jobs.ac.uk/job/DIC361/pro…

‘Digital natives’ … the concept that refuses to die ... I talked to Pekka Mertala (@[email protected]) about a new analysis of nearly 1900 articles charting the worrying persistence of the ‘digital native’ concept in academic literature! buzzsprout.com/1301377/152219…

Monash is hiring! Senior Lecturer in Digital Education & Society ... the job advert is bland, but click on the 'Position description: senior lecturer' link toward the end for more info - anyone in critical studies of ed-tech with a HASS twist welcome! careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/en/…

sample Australian school letter triggered by their LMS Chat GPT detection system ... it is all awkwardly worded, but being informed that you have 'traces of AI' in your submitted work is especially unsettling!

I'm really looking forward to December & being able to talk at 'Udforsk AI 2024' with Marte Blikstad-Balas Professor Pigga Keskitalo & Rune Johan Krumsvik - Nordic Conference on AI Research in the Education Sector ... hope to see you there! uia.no/english/about-…

As some teachers start to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their work, a majority are uncertain about or see downsides to the general use of AI tools in K-12 education, according to our fall 2023 survey. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Emotion AI in schools ... most people agree that computers can't 'detect' emotions, so why are AI products now being sold to monitor attention, concentration, distraction etc? I talk to Nathalie DiBerardino about the problems with this form of EdTech: buzzsprout.com/1301377/150635…

new article ... looking at the politics of how facial recognition tech is creeping into everyday public spaces as a quick technical fix - on this occasion the push for installing FR in Australian pubs and gambling venues to exclude problem gamblers: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I keep seeing this paper doing the rounds, and a lot of people are taking it as evidence to support smartphone bans. But there's something about it that I can't quite get my head around. More than half of the schools in the study didn't actually ban smartphones...

Mental health education & social-emotional learning in schools ... I got to chat with Neil Humphrey about the latest research evidence & thinking around this fast growing area of education: soundcloud.com/eetheducatione…

🔥Now in press at PNAS Nexus 🔥

We provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of generative AI’s potential impacts on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare.

Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen

I enjoyed chatting with Neil Selwyn about banning young people's mobile technologies in England's schools. Our conversation is now available on all major podcast platforms 📲 👇

Banning smartphones from schools continues to be a popular idea amongst many politicians and parents, but is clearly not ideal ... listen to me chat with jack reed about the latest efforts by the UK government to make schools phone-free: buzzsprout.com/1301377/149681…

Los profesores no están siendo reemplazados por robots físicos per se, pero están rodeados cada vez más de software, aplicaciones, plataformas y otras formas de inteligencia artificial diseñada para llevar a cabo tareas pedagógicas. Neil Selwyn

Thrilled to share that my book is coming out in October with Hopkins Press. Bringing together STS and critical university studies, it investigates the increasing use of digital tools for 'solving' higher education challenges through surveillance. press.jhu.edu/books/title/12…

Digital tech is steadily creeping into early childhood centres... listen to my chat with Antti Paakkari (Tampere University) about his research into how digital portfolios, activity trackers & iPads are changing the dynamics of early childhood education in 🇫🇮... buzzsprout.com/1301377/148899…