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Education Technology SocietyBetter AI in education … is regulation the answer?We talk with legal expert Liane Colonna (Stockholm University) about the EU ‘AI Act’ and what it means for the use of AI in education. To what extent can we rely on regulation to enforce safer and more beneficial forms of AI use in education? Accompanying reference >>> Colonna, L. (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED): Towards More Effective Regulation. European Journal of Risk Regulation, doi:10.1017/err.2025.10039
2025-12-0525 minEducation Technology SocietyWhat values should be driving the EdTech of the future?Professor Arathi Sriprakash (University of Oxford) wants us to reimagine edtech along radically different lines. What might digital education look like if it was based around principles of reparation, sovereignty, care and democratisation? Accompanying reference >>> Sriprakash, A., Williamson, B., Facer, K., Pykett, J. & Valladares Celis, C. (2025) Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation, Oxford Review of Education, 51:4, 561-578
2025-11-2219 minEducation Technology SocietyWhy using GenAI in education is ‘pedagogically irresponsible’Philosopher Gene Flenady (Monash University) has strong reservations about the current push for GenAI into university teaching and learning. If we accept that ChatGPT is an ‘irresponsible bullshitter’ then why is it being welcomed into universities … and what can we do about it? Accompanying reference >>> Flenady, G. & Sparrow, R. (2025). Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-10.
2025-11-0819 min
Future TenseLearning how to learn in the age of generative AIIt's exactly three years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene. In that short period of time the process of academic assessment has been in upheaval. Across the world educators are trying to address how students should be assessed and whether AI can be used for more than just helping a student to cheat. But a growing number of education researchers say the real emphasis should be on promoting critical thinking and ensuring future students learn how to learn.GuestsProfessor Dragan Gasevic — Head of the Centre for Learning Analytics, Monash UniversityProfessor Neil Se...
2025-11-0629 minEducation Technology SocietyFostering autonomy in the platformised classroomNiels Kerssens (Utrecht University) joins us to talk about the concept of 'platformisation' that came out of Utecht led by Jose Van Dijck in the 2010s and how this is now coming to bear on the classrooms and schools of 2025. We also talk about Niels’ new concept of ‘digital autonomy innovators’ and the growing demand for more collaborative and non-corporate forms of ed-tech.Accompanying reference >>> Kerssens, N. & van Es, K. (2025). Fostering autonomy in the digital classroom. in Governing the digital society. (pp. 227-244). Amsterdam University Press.
2025-10-2119 minEducation Technology SocietyShould teachers use AI to write emails to parents?AI tools are now being sold with the promise of doing all sorts of routine tasks for teachers.We talk to Brad Robinson (Texas State University) about one such tool – MagicSchool AI – and the growing temptation for teachers to let GenAI do their work for them.Accompanying reference >>> Robinson, B. & Leander, K. (2025). ‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI. Learning, Media and Technology, 1-13
2025-10-0119 minEducation Technology SocietyTechno-solutionism in educationWhy does education keep falling for techno-solutionism, despite the fact that technology does not seem to drastically improve education? Ezechiel Thibaud (The Education University of Hong Kong) guides us through the underpinning causes of techno-solutionism in education and stresses the need to better acknowledge the disappointments of digital education. Accompanying reference >>> Thibaud, E. (2025). Reflections on techno-solutionism in education: Manifestations and causes. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-12.
2025-09-1123 minFuture TenseExistential hope vs Existential FearExistential risks to human life abound, from the threat of nuclear Armageddon; to an uninhabitable planet; or an AI-induced apocalypse. Understanding such risks and how we can best respond to them is the preoccupation of S. J. Beard. But the Cambridge University researcher also speaks of "existential hope", a way of addressing our fears without the doom and despair. Also, Monash University's, Neil Selwyn, makes the call for what he terms "digital degrowth" — decoupling our online world from the shackles of consumer capitalism.GuestsDr S. J. Beard — Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Study of E...
2025-09-0529 minEducation Technology SocietySchools, datafication and the rise of EdTech ‘intermediaries’Schools are increasingly reliant on data infrastructures and platforms – leading to the growing significance of various ‘intermediary actors’ now playing key roles in the governance of digital education. Sigrid Hartong (Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg) joins us to talk about this fast changing aspect of ed-tech. Accompanying reference >>> Hartong, S., Geiss, M. & Röhl, T. (2024). Intermediaries and the digital transformation of schooling: an introduction. Research in Education 120(1):3-13
2025-06-1020 minEducation Technology SocietyDigital disinformation in the age of AI … what can schools do?The growth of deliberately misleading and false information is one of the big concerns of the 2020s. Professor Olof Sundin (Lund University) has been researching students’ (dis)information literacy since the early 2000s. He joins us to talk about the latest developments in this area – particularly the trend of now using AI to both produce *and* retrieve information. Accompanying reference >>> Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2022). Paradoxes of media and information literacy: The crisis of information. Routledge
2025-05-2618 minEducation Technology SocietyAI and the digital future(s) of universitiesWhere are universities going with digitisation and AI, and how does this fit with the views of staff and students? Dr. Magda Pischetola (University of Copenhagen) talks about her recent research into university policymaking around GenAI, and a survey of university teachers’ desired digital futures. Accompanying reference >>> Driessens, O. & Pischetola, M. (2024). Danish university policies on generative AI: Problems, assumptions and sustainability blind spots. MedieKultur: 40(76):31-52.
2025-05-1217 minEducation Technology SocietyKorea is pushing AI into schools … where might this end up?Last year the Korean government announced its substantial commitment to AI and schools, launching an ‘AI Digital Textbook’ policy that promises to establish AI-driven customised learning across the education system. We are joined by Dr. Jina Ro (Sungkyunkwan University) to make sense of Korea’s recent ed-tech turn, and the wider motivations for investing so heavily in the promise of AI transforming traditional schooling. Accompanying reference >>> Jina Ro (2025): Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea, Learning, Media and Technology,doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2462940
2025-04-2322 minEducation Technology SocietyGetting Google out of Danish schools?2022 saw a flurry of reports that the Danish Data Protection Agency was ordering schools to stop using Google products over the tech firm’s misuse of students’ personal data. We talk to Emilie Mørch Groth (Aarhus University) to see what has happened since, what this controversy tells us about the digital dependency of the modern welfare state, and the complexities of pushing back against Big Tech corporations. Accompanying reference >>> Morgan Meaker (2022). A Danish city built Google into its schools—then banned it. Wired, 23rd September, https://www.wired.com/story/denmark-google-schools-data/
2025-04-0219 minEducation Technology SocietyThe digital transformation of higher education … for better and for worseOn the face of it, digital technologies are now integral to university teaching and learning. But to what extent have things actually changed … and are these changes wholly positive? Cathrine Tømte (University of Agder) talks about the impacts of digitisation on Norwegian universities, and why teachers and students should perhaps be joining forces to push for radically different technologies. Accompanying reference >>> Rómulo Pinheiro, Cathrine Tømte, Linda Barman, Lise Degn & Lars Geschwind (2023) Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education. Springer [open access]
2025-03-2215 minEducation Technology SocietyThe cruel optimism of EdTechPlatforms are now an almost ubiquitous feature of schools. We talk with Lucas Cone (University of Copenhagen) about his work around teachers’ everyday engagements with platforms – in particular the benefits of using affect theory to make sense of teachers’ affiliations and relationships with these clearly problematic technologies. Accompanying reference >>> Lucas Cone (2024) Subscribing school: digital platforms, affective attachments, and cruel optimism in a Danish public primary school, Critical Studies in Education, 65(3):294-311, DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2023.2269425
2025-03-0723 min
MKV-poddenLive-podd: The Digital Backlash in EducationPanel discussion The hype surrounding digital technologies in education has now partly been replaced with a opposite tendency where schools worldwide are going back to printed books and banning mobile phones from the classroom. At the same time, digital technologies are deeply embedded in educational practices and the global ed-tech industry is thriving. In this panel, four distinguished researchers from the field of media and education give their perspectives on this development:· Neil Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education (Monash University, Australia)· Petar Jandrić, Professor of Information Science (Zagreb University of Applied Science, Croa...
2025-02-1647 minEducation Technology SocietyWhat is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech?There is growing interest in critical studies of education and technology. But what does it mean to be ‘critical’ of edtech, and how can this work genuinely make a difference in the world? Felicitas Macgilchrist (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) talks about the need to look beyond claims of transformation and novelty, drawing attention to marginalised forms of edtech, and the power of rageful hope. Accompanying reference >>> Macgilchrist, F. (2021). What is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech? Learning, Media and Technology 46(3):243–249 https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1958843
2025-02-0915 minEducation Technology SocietyWhat do ed-tech policymakers want from academic research?Academics are increasingly looking to make an impact on policymakers, but critical ed-tech research often seems to fall on deaf ears. In this episode Dr. Cristóbal Cobo – currently a senior ed-tech specialist at a major international organization – talks about the types of evidence that get most attention in policy circles, and some approaches that might help critical researchers get their messages through. Accompanying reference >>> Cristóbal Cobo (2019). "I Accept The Terms And Conditions: Uses And Abuses Of Digital Technologies” [PDF book]
2025-01-2814 minEducation Technology SocietyReading in the digital ageDigital books are now a common part of education, but concerns are growing around the problems of students reading on-screen.Marte Blikstad-Balas (University of Oslo) discusses the latest research around what it means to read on-screen as opposed to reading from ‘proper’ books, and why government bans on digital devices are not the best response.Accompanying reference >>> Jensen, R., Roe, A. & Blikstad-Balas, M. (2024). The smell of paper or the shine of a screen? Students’ reading comprehension, text processing, and attitudes when reading on paper and screen. Computers & Education, 219, 105107.
2025-01-1115 min
The MIT Press PodcastLuci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required to make sense of life in the data age. Bringing together cutting-edge thinking and discussion from across education, sociology, psychology, and media and communication studies, Critical Data Literacies develops a powerful argument for collectively rethinking the role that data plays in our everyday lives and re...
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New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyLuci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required to make sense of life in the data age. Bringing together cutting-edge thinking and discussion from across education, sociology, psychology, and media and communication studies, Critical Data Literacies develops a powerful argument for collectively rethinking the role that data plays in our everyday lives and re...
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New Books in CommunicationsLuci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required to make sense of life in the data age. Bringing together cutting-edge thinking and discussion from across education, sociology, psychology, and media and communication studies, Critical Data Literacies develops a powerful argument for collectively rethinking the role that data plays in our everyday lives and re...
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New Books in SociologyLuci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required to make sense of life in the data age. Bringing together cutting-edge thinking and discussion from across education, sociology, psychology, and media and communication studies, Critical Data Literacies develops a powerful argument for collectively rethinking the role that data plays in our everyday lives and re...
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New Books in MathematicsLuci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required to make sense of life in the data age. Bringing together cutting-edge thinking and discussion from across education, sociology, psychology, and media and communication studies, Critical Data Literacies develops a powerful argument for collectively rethinking the role that data plays in our everyday lives and re...
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New Books in EducationLuci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2023), Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required to make sense of life in the data age. Bringing together cutting-edge thinking and discussion from across education, sociology, psychology, and media and communication studies, Critical Data Literacies develops a powerful argument for collectively rethinking the role that data plays in our everyday lives and re...
2024-12-1940 minEducation Technology SocietyAustralia thinks that it can ban young people from using social media … we have questions!The Australian government has just announced that it will ban all young people under the age of 16 from using social media.Dr. Clare Southerton explains the background to this ‘ban’ and what it might mean for students and schools.Recommended reading >>> Lisa Given (2024). Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery. The Conversation, 28th November.
2024-12-0917 minEducation Technology Society‘Nudging’ students to do the right thingDigital technologies are now a key means of ‘nudging’ students (and teachers) to make better decisions. Mathias Decuypere (PHZH) talks about the coming together of behavioural economics thinking and digital education, and how critical ed-tech scholars should be looking for alternate ways of working with this concept of the ‘edunudge’. Accompanying reference >>> Mathias Decuypere & Sigrid Hartong (2023) Edunudge. Learning, Media and Technology, 48(1):138-152
2024-12-0320 minEducation Technology SocietyThe challenges of studying in the ‘platformised’ universityUniversity life is now increasingly mediated by digital platforms. Joe Noteboom’s research looks at the everyday realities of studying through platforms, and how students’ dependence on these technologies can lead to a number of problems and vulnerabilities. Accompanying reference >>> Joe Noteboom (2024): The student as user: mapping student experiences of platformisation in higher education, Learning, Media and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2414055
2024-11-2319 minEducation Technology SocietyRaising a generation of techno-skeptical studentsDan Krutka (University of North Texas) is on a mission to support students, teachers and parents to think critically and make informed decisions about the digital tech in their lives.Dan talks about the idea of the ‘Technoskepticism Iceberg’ as a framework to identify the technical, psychosocial and political dimensions of technology.Accompanying reference >>> Pleasants, J., Krutka, D., & Nichols, T. (2023). What relationships do we want with technology? Toward technoskepticism in schools. Harvard Educational Review, 93(4):486-515
2024-10-2919 minEducation Technology SocietyStudents ‘cheating’ with Generative AITwo years on from the initial panic around Chat GPT and student cheating we catch with Phill Dawson from Deakin’s ‘Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning’.Phill reflects on what universities have got wrong in their responses to GenAI, and why this might be a good time to entirely rethink the notion of student assessment altogether.Accompanying reference >>> Bearman, M., Tai, J., Dawson, P., Boud, D., & Ajjawi, R. (2024). Developing evaluative judgement for a time of generative artificial intelligence. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1-13.
2024-10-0616 minEducation Technology SocietyWhat’s the problem with Google Classroom?We talk with Sonia Livingstone (Digital Futures for Children, LSE) about the ways in which EdTech and data protection policies often fail to protect children’s rights at school. In particular we look at Google Classroom as an example of how policymakers, regulators and governments need to intervene more forcibly in the EdTech marketplace. Accompanying reference >>> Livingstone, S., Pothong, K., Atabey, A., Hooper, L., & Day, E. (2024). The Googlization of the classroom: Is the UK in protecting children's data and rights? Computers and Education Open, 100195.
2024-09-1318 min
Dasprive Podcast169 – Love robots, op papa-jacht met DNA, en de 700 miljard data industrieDeze week in Dasprive:
Bart zet zijn kruistocht bij Bpost lekker door
Australiërs gaan op papa-jacht door middel van publieke DNA-databanken
Japanse love robots
De 700 miljard fake industrie om onze aandacht
Dit en natuurlijk nog veel meer, deze week in Dasprive.
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2024-07-1558 minEducation Technology Society‘Digital natives’ … the concept that refuses to diePekka Mertala (University of Oulu) talks about a new exhaustive analysis of nearly 1900 articles that charts the evolving use of the ‘digital native’ concept in academic literature. We talk about the history of the idea of ‘digital natives’, why the persistence of the idea is damaging, and how we need to actively campaign against its future use.** this is the final episode of Season One of ETS ... we will return in September! ** Accompanying reference >>> Mertala, P., López-Pernas, S., Vartiainen, H., Saqr, M., & Tedre, M. (2024). Digital natives in the scientific l...
2024-06-1018 minEducation Technology SocietyEmotion AI in educationNathalie DiBerardino (Western University) discusses the growing take-up of emotion AI in schools – tech that claims to detect student attention, concentration, and even interest levels. What are the harms of relying on such tech in classrooms, and how might educators and students push back? Accompanying reference >>> DiBerardino, N. & Stark, L. (2023). (Anti)-Intentional Harms: The Conceptual Pitfalls of Emotion AI in Education. in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 1386-1395).
2024-05-1417 minEducation Technology SocietyBanning mobile phones from schoolsJack Reed (University of Exeter) talks about the recent UK government push to ban mobile phones from schools in England. He fills us in on the motivations of UK politicians, why phone bans need to seen as a human rights issue, and the benefits of taking a postdigital approach to thinking about technology and education.Accompanying reference >>> Reed, J. & Dunn, C. (2024). Postdigital young people’s rights: a critical perspective on the UK government’s guidance to ban phones in England’s schools. Postdigital Science and Education 10.1007/s42438-024-00464-6
2024-04-2819 minEducation Technology SocietyDigital technologies in early childhood educationAntti Paakkari (Tampere University) talks about his research on digital technologies in Finnish early childhood centres – from digital portfolios to activity trackers. We discuss how these technologies are changing the dynamics between children, educators and parents, and leading to increased assessment of children despite the expectation that early childhood centres are assessment-free. Accompanying reference >>> Paakkari, A., Paananen, M., & Grieshaber, S. (2023). Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care
2024-04-1519 minEducation Technology SocietyDigital technologies and the commercialism of educationFaith Boninger talks about how digital technologies are increasingly implicated in the commercialism of education. We talk about Faith’s involvement in the long-running NEPC reports on virtual high schools, the NEPC’s fight against personalised learning systems, and why tech companies have an insatiable urge to ‘fix’ education. Accompanying link >> The National Education Policy Centre at the University of Colorado
2024-04-0215 minEducation Technology SocietyIs there a place for facial recognition technology in education?Recent reports of facial recognition technology being developed for use in US classrooms has attracted widespread criticism. We talk to Charles Logan (Northwestern University) about the problems that facial recognition poses for students and educators. >>> Accompanying reference: Inside Higher Education (2024). Facial Recognition Heads to Class. Will Students Benefit? Feb 27th.
2024-03-1019 minEducation Technology SocietyThe history of educational computing in EuropeMichael Geiss (Zurich University of Teacher Education) talks about a new edited book looking at how computers came into European schools from the 1960s to 1990s. We talk about the importance of ‘pioneer’ teachers in paving the way for EdTech markets to develop, why critical scholars need to ‘follow the money’ while also paying more attention to national political structures, and why the EdTech agendas of international organisations like OECD shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Accompanying reference >> Carmen Flury and Michael Geiss (2023). How computers entered the classroom, 1960-2000: historical perspectives. Degruyter (free to download)
2024-02-2821 minEducation Technology SocietyIs it time to rethink how we teach Digital Citizenship?Jack Webster (University of Auckland) talks about the need to update how schools teach the topic of ‘Digital Citizenship’, and how post-digital thinking might revitalise this often-overlooked aspect of digital education. Accompanying reference >> Jack Webster (2024). Updating Digital Citizenship Education for a Postdigital Society. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-023-00305-3
2024-02-1016 min
Vov at VideTeknologiens væsenDer bliver skabt masser af ny teknologi, men det er ikke altid, at afsendernes ideer flugter med modtagernes behov. Mødet mellem udviklere og brugere er omdrejningspunktet for ny dansk forskning, der prøver at gennemskue, om teknologien gør som planlagt, eller om der måske er utilsigtede og usynlige konsekvenser.
Bliver undervisningen bedre, hvis dansklæreren får hjælp af kunstig intelligens til at vurdere elevernes skriveevner? Det er et af de spørgsmål, antropologen Maja Hojer Bruun gerne vil blive klogere på i de kommende år med et nyt stort forskningsprojekt, der handler om brugen af...
2024-02-0124 minEducation Technology SocietyAI technology in primary classrooms - a Swedish perspectiveKaterina Sperling (Linköping University) talks about her ongoing research into the realities of AI use in Swedish primary classrooms. Accompanying reference >> Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden, Jörgen Nissen, Fredrik Heintz (2022). Still w(AI)ting for the automation of teaching: An exploration of machine learning in Swedish primary education using Actor-Network Theory. European Journal of Education, 57(4):584-600 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12526
2024-01-2417 minEducation Technology SocietyWhy the digital disruption of higher education might be a long time coming …Claire Murray (University of South Australia) talks about research looking at the claims made by EdTech companies and investors about the ‘digital disruption’ of universities.She talks about how the EdTech sector is limited by its focus on the economic value of higher education and promises of enhanced efficiency, acceleration and scalability.In contrast to promises of micro-credentials and nano-degrees, Claire’s work suggests that elite institutions, students and families continue to value the social and cultural capital that comes from the traditional mode of four year degrees and face-to-face tuition. So, unlike ride-s...
2023-12-1013 minEducation Technology SocietyThe de-digitization of Swedish schools?In August 2023, the Swedish education minister Lotta Edholm surprised many people by announcing her government’s intention to reverse the country’s previous bold commitment to the digitisation of schools. With more details now emerging of an official commitment to textbooks, hand-writing and other ‘analogue’ methods, we catch up Prof. Anna-Lena Godhe (Jönköping University) to find out what is really going on … and whether this is the beginning of an international political backlash against digital technology in the classroom. Additional reading >> The Guardian (Sept 2023). Switching off: Sweden says back-to-basics schooling works on paper
2023-11-2615 minEducation Technology SocietyThe political and economic agendas behind EdTechIn this episode, Dr. Lulu Shi (University of Oxford) talks about the her new research around the economic and political agendas of tech firms and policymakers driving the digitalisation of education in the UK. Lulu’s work is already raising interesting findings. Amongst other things, we talk about the influence of effective altruism on UK government thinking around tech, and the ambitions of firms such as Duolingo to profit from testing and accreditation.Accompanying material >> More information on Lulu’s research and career to date
2023-11-1514 minEducation Technology SocietyAI and education – making sense of the hypeWayne Holmes (UCL) has been working around AI and education *long* before it became fashionable! In this episode, Wayne looks back over the recent hype around Chat GPT and generative AI and offers some suggestions of where the field of AI and education might be heading next. We also get up to speed on how international organisations such as UNESCO, OECD, the EU and Council of Europe are beginning to push distinct agendas around AI and education.Accompanying reference >> Wayne Holmes & Ilkka Tuomi (2022). State of the art and practice in AI in e...
2023-10-2314 min
レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article PodcastSweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schoolsAs young children went back to school across Sweden in August, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time, and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online research, and keyboarding skills.
The return to more traditional ways of learning is a response to politicians and experts questioning whether the country's hyper-digitalized approach to education, including the introduction of tablets in nursery schools, had led to a decline in basic skills.
Swedish Minister for Schools Lotta Edholm announced in August in a statement that the government wants to reverse the decision...
2023-10-0402 minEducation Technology SocietyAI and education in ChinaReports of ‘what China is doing’ are a key part of the hype around AI and education in Western countries.But how is AI actually being developed in China, and how can we make sense of the complex politics, history and culture of Chinese education?In this episode we hear from Jeremy Knox (University of Oxford) about his recent book ‘AI and education in China’. Accompanying reference >> Jeremy Knox (2023). AI and Education in China: Imagining the Future, Excavating the Past. Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003375135
2023-10-0417 minEducation Technology SocietyAudrey Watters’ ‘Second Breakfast’Until recently, Audrey Watters was one of the most prominent and prolific critics of digital technology and education – dubbed ‘ed-tech's Cassandra'.Then in 2021, she published a book, quit Twitter, and wound up her highly influential ‘Hack Education’ blog.In this episode, we catch up with Audrey about her new ‘Second Breakfast’ project, and her pivot to writing about fitness technologies, food and exercise.Audrey talks about the parallels between fitness tech and digital education, the enduring legacy of BF Skinner in current Silicon Valley thinking, as well as her reflections on the relentless grind of crit...
2023-09-1622 minEducation Technology SocietyDigitisation of education … what are critical scholars writing about in 2023?Ben Williamson joins us for a sneak preview of the mammoth 2024 World Yearbook of Education with eighteen new chapters themed around “Digitalization of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence.”Accompanying reference >> Ben Williamson, Janja Komljenovic, Kalervo Gulson (eds) (2024) World Yearbook of Education 2024: Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. Routledge ISBN 9781032417905
2023-09-0317 min
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2023-09-012h 02Education Technology SocietySeason 1 - TrailerAdvance warning of ‘Education Technology Society’ … a new podcast about digital education and education futures.This is a place to catch up with the latest ideas, arguments and work coming out of the critical studies of education and technology.We will be releasing episodes from Sept 2023, so FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to this show from the podcast platform of your choice.See you very soon!
2023-05-3101 min
Collective Intellectualities17 Neil Selwyn - Ed-Tech: Puncturing the Hype for a Planetary FutureFor today’s episode, we’ll be chatting with Neil Selwyn, who is a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. An internationally recognized scholar, Neil’s research focuses on digital education and technology. Neil’s recent projects explore data in schooling, digital labor, AI technologies, and sustainability in educational technology.Links to recent works:Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology (2023) in Learning, Media, and Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2159978The future of AI and education: Some cautionary notes (2022) in European Journal of Educationhttps://doi.org...
2023-04-251h 02
Education International EdVoicesTeasing the Tech - Episode 3 | EdTech & quality educationThis is the third episode of our podcast series entitled: “Teasing the tech”. Our guest speaker, Neil Selwyn, is a professor at the Faculty of Education in Monash University, Australia, and a leading international researcher in the area of digital education. Martin Henry, research coordinator at Education International, will be the host for these series.
In this episode we will be looking at the impact of education techonologies on quality teaching and learning. Are the dominant forms of education techonologies improving the quality of education? Is edtech making education better, more inspiring, engaging, innovative? Listen to it now!
2023-03-2439 minEducation International EdVoicesTeasing the Tech - Episode 2 | EdTech & labour relationsThis is the second episode of a podcast series entitled: “Teasing the tech”. Our guest speaker, Neil Selwyn, is a professor at the Faculty of Education in Monash University, Australia, and a leading international researcher in the area of digital education. Martin Henry, research coordinator at Education International, will be the host for these series.
As technological for-profit giants, such as Google or Microsoft, are playing a major role in education, the transformation of the State and the public sector in the current context makes it important to give attention to changes in labour relations. This will be the focus of t...
2023-03-0230 min
Próxima paradaHil St. Soul, Neil Young y Margo PriceNeil Young "Long may you run" - Better Oblivion Community Center & Phoebe Bridgers "Dylan Thomas" - Lana Del Rey "Doin' time" - Gene Clark "Life's greatest fool" - Margo Price "Radio" - Love Fame Tragedy "My cheating heart" - Selwyn Birchwood "Living in a burning house" - Jaguar Wright "The what if's" - Dave McMurray "Loser" - Ernie Watts "Music prayer for peace" - Esperanza Spalding "Precious" - Terrace Martin, Robertr Glasper, 9th Wonder "First responders" - Hil St. Soul "Concret jungle" y "Until you come back to me"
2023-02-281h 04Education International EdVoicesTeasing the Tech - Episode 1 | EdTech & democratic accountabilityThis episode is the first of a podcast series entitled: “Teasing the tech”, focusing on things teachers should know about the impact of education technologies on labour relations, teaching and learning and education governance.
Our guest speaker, Neil Selwyn, is a Professor at the Faculty of Education in Monash University, Australia. Neil is recognised as a leading international researcher in the area of digital education. In this episode, we will be 'following the money', and looking, amongst other things, into the potential implications of the expanding role of education technologies for democratic accountability and education governance.
2023-02-1744 min
EdSurge PodcastWhat Role Should AI Play in Education? A Venture Capitalist and an EdTech Critic Face OffWhat happens when a venture capitalist who funds edtech companies faces off with an edtech critic about what role AI should play in education? We found out, in this discussion between professor Neil Selwyn and venture-fund founder Ryan Craig.
2022-03-0841 min
EdSurge PodcastShould Robots Replace Teachers?Robots are having a moment—including the announcement last week of a new home robot by Amazon. What could that mean for education? We talked with Neil Selwyn, a research professor at Monash University in Australia and author of the provocative book "Should Robots Replace Teachers?"
2021-10-0540 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureLife Riffs: Improvisation in Poetry, Theology, and Flourishing / Micheal O'Siadhail & David Ford"Be with me, Madam Jazz, I urge you now, / Riff in me so I can conjure how / You breathe in us more than we dare allow." (Micheal O'Siadhail, The Five Quintets)Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail and theologian David Ford discuss the improvisational jazz that emerges in the interplay of poetry and theology, riffing on life and love, the meaning of covenant, retrieving wisdom from history, and imagining a future by letting go in communion with Madam Jazz. Interview by Drew Collins.About Micheal O'SiadhailMicheal O'Siadhail is a poet. His Collected Poems was...
2021-07-1748 min
Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teachingInside Education 419, Deirdre Hodson on Technology and Sustainability (22-6-21)Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's podcast I speak to Deirdre Hodson who works in the European Commission’s department for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture in Brussels. She provides a European Union policy perspective on technology and sustainability in education. Among the topics we discuss are:
How she came to work in the area of digital education policy and her studies in the area
Ben Williamson
Neil Selwyn
How her studies contributed to her work as a policymaker
How the pandemic is likely to impact on policy and practice
The need for...
2021-06-2258 min
Politics CentralKris Faafoi: What people need to know about the Canterbury weather warningsAuthorities are prepared for the swollen Ashburton river to breach its banks.The region's one of three - along with Timaru and Selwyn - to declare a state of local emergency after hours of heavy rainfall.District Mayor Neil Brown says he's never seen the river this high.But he says the region has planned for a one-in-200-year weather event, and stopbanks are holding the river back.Acting Minister for Emergency Management Kris Faafoi told The Weekend Collective up to 4,000 people are at risk of evacuation in Ashburton if the river breaks its banks."...
2021-05-3006 min
Byte Into ITAre Australians Suspicious of Artificial Intelligence?Professor Neil Selwyn Of Monash University’s Education faculty discusses a nationwide survey of Australian attitudes to artificial intelligence; and the team talk about the highs and lows of being a reddit moderator. With presenters Vanessa Toholka, Laura Summers and Dan Morganti. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/byte-into-it/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/3RRRFMByteIntoIT/Twitter: https://twitter.com/byteintoit
2020-09-2347 min
Feierabendbier Open EducationStones that calculate
Wir sprechen nach einer Sommerpause über die Vaterfiguren von Openness, über evidenzbasierten Optimismus, über Steine, die rechnen können und über praktische Beispiele von Openness. Feedback gern auf unserer Website: https://feierabendbier-open-education.de/
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Wasser
Was wir gemacht haben
Markus
Vorbereitungen Vorträge und Workshop: auf neuem Blog http://vortrag.drdeimann.de/HFD: Auswahl Sitzung zum University Future Festival https://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/de/universityfuture-festival-learning-systems-and-new-normalMitwirkung bei einer Expertise zu frühkindlicher BildungKultur-Trip mit BC 100 Himmelsscheibe von Nebra https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelsscheibe_von_Nebra
Christian
2020-09-171h 24
ScreenStrong FamiliesThe Myth of the Technology-Enhanced SuperkidJoin Melanie Hempe and Matt Miles—educator and co-author with Joe Clement of "Screen Schooled"—discuss "The Myth of the Technology-Enhanced Superkid."
"Young people's engagements with digital technologies are varied and often unspectacular—in stark contrast to popular portrayals of the digital native." —Neil Selwyn
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2020-09-1500 min
Meet The Education ResearcherDigital education after COVID-19 (Felicitas Macgilchrist & Ben Williamson)EdTech has been a key aspect of remote schooling during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
How have schools and families been making use of digital technologies so far, and what might the longer term consequences be for education?
Listen to highlights from an online seminar (24/06/20) with Felicitas Macgilchrist (Germany), Ben Williamson (UK) & Neil Selwyn (Australia)
2020-06-2838 min
Teacher Talk Podcast - Erfolgreiches Lernen und gelungene Digitalisierung in der Schule (digitaler Unterricht)006 Teil 2 - Moodle & YouTube im Einsatz an einer Gesamtschule // Interview mit den Lehrern Johannes & SebastianHeute im Interview: Johannes & Sebastian, beides Gesamtschullehrer. Die beiden geben einen Einblick, wie man eigentlich aus dem Nichts mit Digitalisierung an der Schule startet und was eine "Fachkonferenz für Digitales Lernen" ist. Außerdem erzählen die beiden etwas über die Integration der Lernplattform Moodle an der Schule. Daneben diskutieren wir, welche Emotionen im Präsenzunterricht ausgelöst werden. Sebastian hat da noch folgenden Buch-Tipp für uns: "Should Robot Replace Teachers" (Neil Selwyn). Während der Corona-Zeit haben die beiden Lehrer einen YouTube-Kanal für Moodle-Erklär-Videos und Live-Streams für Infos aus der Schule gestartet.Di...
2020-06-2233 minTeacher Talk Podcast - Erfolgreiches Lernen und gelungene Digitalisierung in der Schule (digitaler Unterricht)006 Teil 1 - Moodle & YouTube im Einsatz an einer Gesamtschule // Interview mit den Lehrern Johannes & SebastianHeute im Interview: Johannes & Sebastian, beides Gesamtschullehrer. Die beiden geben einen Einblick, wie man eigentlich aus dem Nichts mit Digitalisierung an der Schule startet und was eine "Fachkonferenz für Digitales Lernen" ist. Außerdem erzählen die beiden etwas über die Integration der Lernplattform Moodle an der Schule. Daneben diskutieren wir, welche Emotionen im Präsenzunterricht ausgelöst werden. Sebastian hat da noch folgenden Buch-Tipp für uns: "Should Robot Replace Teachers" (Neil Selwyn). Während der Corona-Zeit haben die beiden Lehrer einen YouTube-Kanal für Moodle-Erklär-Videos und Live-Streams für Infos aus der Schule gestartet.Di...
2020-06-2232 min
OutClassedAn interview with Neil Selwyn: The role of technology in education, data analytics and more. Ep 10In this week's OutClassed Podcast, Mike and Blake Speak with Neil Selwyn from Monash University in Australia about the role of technology in schools.In this episode we discuss a range of topics including:* The place of data in education and a discussion around assessment* What role does educational research research play in schools* Learning analytics and data driven schooling * Blended learning and advice on how to move forward post COVID and school closuresTo see all the OutClassed episodes go to utb.fyi/outclassed
2020-06-191h 09OutClassedThriving in remote learning environments - Ep 2In this week's OutClassed Podcast, Mike and Blake explore how to thrive in remote learning environments, and how this will positively effect schools when they reopen.We look at balance policy and freedom to innovate, how to keep your whole school connected, and an article by Neil Selwyn about where online schooling is inferior (see the resource section below for the link).To see all the Outclassed episodes go to utb.fyi/outclassed
2020-04-2054 min
New Work in Digital HumanitiesNeil Selwyn, "What is Digital Sociology?" (Polity, 2019)The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology.In What is Digital Sociology (Polity, 2019), Neil Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital. Blending theory and empirical examples, the five chapters highlight areas of inquiry where digital approaches are taking hold and shaping the discipline of sociology today. The book explores key topics...
2020-03-2753 min
New Books in TechnologyNeil Selwyn, "What is Digital Sociology?" (Polity, 2019)The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology.In What is Digital Sociology (Polity, 2019), Neil Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital. Blending theory and empirical examples, the five chapters highlight areas of inquiry where digital approaches are taking hold and shaping the discipline of sociology today. The book explores key topics...
2020-03-2754 min
Bildung-Alt-EntfernenBldgAltEntf 023: "Fuck ju Faust!"Die Folge haben wir am 24.01.2020 aufgenommen.
Intro & Feedback
O hat Faust gelesen, wir müssen da jetzt alle durch.
Da Esther auf Twitter fragte, welchen Aufwand wir mit der Produktion haben, ein Verweis auf die Edufunkfolge im Open Education Radio.
Florian meint, wir sollten uns einen Thread auf Twitter zum Thema LMS mal durchlesen.
David ist auf eine Podcastepisode zum Thema Lernmythen gestoßen.
Mathias berichtet, wie er seine Lehre ständig weiter entwickelt.
News+Alt+Entf
News+O
O hat Faust gel...
2020-01-262h 46
Teacher Magazine (ACER)Podcast Special: In Conversation with Geoff Masters and Neil SelwynACER’s Research Conference took place this month with the theme – ‘Preparing students for life in the 21st century: Identifying, developing and assessing what matters’. In this episode, we’ll take you to the closing session of the conference – the ‘In Conversation’ between ACER CEO Professor Geoff Masters AO and Neil Selwyn, a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. We’ll share highlights from their discussion about what schooling might look like in 10 years’ time.
Now, this session began directly after Neil delivered the conference’s Karmel Oration, so, as you’re going to hear a few references to that talk...
2019-08-2523 min
Eat This for PerformanceHow to Have an Athletic Career with No Regrets with Neil BlundenSSM Episode #31
What happens when you are passionate about your sport? You get the story of Neil.
Neil Blunden is a hockey coach, former elite hockey player and in general a hockey passionate person. Neil is an Assistant Coach with the McGill University Hockey Team and has been around the world as the Assistant Coach of the Serbian Men’s National Team, Director of Hockey Operations at HK Partizan – Belgrade, Serbia, Coordinator of Hockey Development at Selwyn House School right here in Westmount, QC, and Hockey Instructor in Zagreb, Croatia.
In this interview Neil...
2019-05-2140 min
Business Success Archives -Selwyn Whitehead – San Francisco Bay Bankruptcy Attorney on Getting Help To Reorganize Debt or LiquidateIn this episode, host Neil Howe talks with California Bankruptcy Attorney Selwyn Whitehead on helping people with their debt problems.
Selwyn helps consumers looking to save their homes or other major assets and Small business owners looking to salvage what they can from their stalled enterprises.
One of the first problems is admitting that there is a problem and to stop digging the hole. Whitehead says there are 2 main solutions. Reorganizing Debt and Liquidation.
Listen in as Selwyn goes through the options for individuals and business owners to get the best outcome from t...
2018-02-2100 minBusiness Innovators Radio NetworkSelwyn Whitehead – San Francisco Bay Bankruptcy Attorney on Getting Help To Reorganize Debt or LiquidateIn this episode, host Neil Howe talks with California Bankruptcy Attorney Selwyn Whitehead on helping people with their debt problems.
Selwyn helps consumers looking to save their homes or other major assets and Small business owners looking to salvage what they can from their stalled enterprises.
One of the first problems is admitting that there is a problem and to stop digging the hole. Whitehead says there are 2 main solutions. Reorganizing Debt and Liquidation.
Listen in as Selwyn goes through the options for individuals and business owners to get the best outcome from t...
2018-02-2100 min
Business Authority RadioSelwyn Whitehead - San Francisco Bay Bankruptcy Attorney on Getting Help To Reorganize Debt or LiquidateIn this episode, host Neil Howe talks with California Bankruptcy Attorney Selwyn Whitehead on helping people with their debt problems. Selwyn helps consumers looking to save their homes or other major assets and Small business owners looking to salvage what they can from their stalled enterprises.One of the first problems is admitting that there is a problem and to stop digging the hole. Whitehead says there are 2 main solutions. Reorganizing Debt and Liquidation.Listen in as Selwyn goes through the options for individuals and business owners to get the best outcome from their...
2018-02-2137 minMeet The Education ResearcherLiteracy, teacher education & curriculum history (Bill Green)Prof Bill Green (Charles Sturt University) has been described as “one of Australia’s most recognized education researchers”
In this podcast, Bill talks to Neil Selwyn about his long career researching literacy, teacher education, curriculum history and rural education.
Bill reflects on the need for persistence in education research, his fascination with social theory … as well as why academics tend to write badly (and what they can do about it).
2017-12-0815 min
Digitalsamtal#104 – Undervisning i en digitaliserad världNeil Selwyn, professor vid fakulteten för utbildning på Monash University i Australien, var öppningstalare på årets upplaga av Makerdays. Efter en uppskattad timme på scenen satte han sig ner med Anders för att prata mer om digtalisering, utbildning och digital kompetens. Både i skolan och i ett bredare perspektiv.
Har du synpunkter på samtalet, frågor eller förslag på vad vi kan prata om i kommande avsnitt: Hör gärna av dig. Gärna genom att delta i diskussionerna i Facebook-gruppen Digital Samhällskunskap.
Ni kan också skicka e-post till oss på podcast@digitalsamtal.se. Digitalsamtal finns...
2017-11-0831 min
Bandana Blues, founded by Beardo, hosted by SpinnerBandana Blues #690 Spinner Gets all R&'B'd Up!!show#690 05.06.17 New Tunes & R&B Out The Ass! 1. Low Society - Raccoon Song from Sanctified 2017 Rezonate Records (4:35) 2. Laura Tate - Hitting On Nothing from Let's Just Be Real 2017 811 Gold Records (2:38) 3. Polly O'Keary and The Rhythm Method - Yours To lose from Black Crow Callin' 2017 self-release (4:00) 4. Bridget Kelly Band - What You Need from Bone Rattler 2017 Alpha Sun Records BMI AlOmega Music (5:29) 5. Floyd Dixon - Sad Journey [1950] from Boogie Uproar - Gems from the Peacock Vaults 2014 One Day Music (2:47) 6. Sonny Parker - Money Ain't Everything [1952] from Boogie Uproar...
2017-05-072h 00Feierabendbier Open EducationEin Lob dem DiskursIn Episode 26 geht’s um die verschiedenen Definitionen von Open Pedagogy und den Weg dorthin, das Buch Education and Technology: key issues and debates von Neil Selwyn, eine Radiosendung u.a. mit Christian Füller, einen Artikel von danah boyd und unsere Lobhudelei von Jim Groom. Feedback gern via twitter oder in den Shownotes: docs.google.com/document/d/1OIhLK…/edit?usp=sharing
Was wir trinken
Christian: Buddelship Mitschnagger & Buddelship Great Escape
Markus: Augustiner Helles
Was wir gemacht haben
PD Dr. Markus Deimann:
Urkunde in Hagen abgeho...
2017-04-2000 min
Data & SocietyThe Messy Realities of Digital SchoolingIn this Databite, Neil Selwyn works through some emerging headline findings from a new three year study of digital technology use in Australian high schools. In particular Neil highlights the ways in which schools’ actual uses of technology often contradict presumptions of ‘connected learning’, ‘digital education’ and the like. Instead Neil considers…
• how and why recent innovations such as maker culture, personalised learning and data-driven education are subsumed within more restrictive institutional ‘logics’;
• the tensions of ‘bring your own device’ and other permissive digital learning practices
• how alternative and resistant forms of technology use by students tend to mitigate...
2017-02-0738 min
Start the WeekTechnology in EducationOn Start the Week Andrew Marr explores the use of technology in education. Professor Sugata Mitra has installed an internet-connected PC in a slum in India and watched how curiosity leads children to learn together. Digital technology is increasingly used in schools but the educationalist Neil Selwyn questions whether this is a positive step. The writer Lynsey Hanley looks at how class is embedded in the education system and the former Headmaster at Eton, Tony Little, on his vision for the future of schooling.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
2016-05-0941 min
Department of Education Public Seminars‘Online all the time’ Teachers’ work in the digital ageProfessor Neil Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminars series. This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies are now implicated in teachers’ work and labour. Drawing upon in-depth ethnographic studies of three Australian high schools, Neil will detail the ways in which teachers’ work is now enacted along digital lines – often in notably intensified, standardized and evidenced ways. However, these research findings also raise questions regarding the extent to which these digitisations can be said to constitute wholly ‘new’ labour conditions – pointing to continuities and disjunctures between teac...
2015-11-0554 min
Department of Education Public Seminars‘Online all the time’ Teachers’ work in the digital ageProfessor Neil Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminars series. This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies are now implicated in teachers’ work and labour. Drawing upon in-depth ethnographic studies of three Australian high schools, Neil will detail the ways in which teachers’ work is now enacted along digital lines – often in notably intensified, standardized and evidenced ways. However, these research findings also raise questions regarding the extent to which these digitisations can be said to constitute wholly ‘new’ labour conditions – pointing to continuities and disjunctures between teac...
2015-11-0554 min
Teachers Education ReviewTER #010 - Technology in Schools with Dr Neil Selwyn - Nov 17 2013Professor Neil Selwyn from Monash University talks with TER Podcast about the difference between the rhetoric and the reality of technology in education.Support TER Podcast at Patreon.com/TERPodcastTER Podcast on TwitterFollow TER Podcast on Facebook
2013-11-171h 23Teachers Education ReviewTER #010 - Technology in Schools with Dr Neil Selwyn - Nov 17 2013Professor Neil Selwyn from Monash University talks with TER Podcast about the difference between the rhetoric and the reality of technology in education.Support TER Podcast at Patreon.com/TERPodcastTER Podcast on TwitterFollow TER Podcast on Facebook
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