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Is 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.

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  Better AI in education … is regulation the answer?

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  What values should be driving the EdTech of the future?

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  Why using GenAI in education is ‘pedagogically irresponsible’

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  Fostering autonomy in the platformised classroom

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  Should teachers use AI to write emails to parents?

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  Techno-solutionism in education

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  Schools, datafication and the rise of EdTech ‘intermediaries’

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  Digital disinformation in the age of AI … what can schools do?

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  AI and the digital future(s) of universities

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  Korea is pushing AI into schools … where might this end up?

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  Getting Google out of Danish schools?

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  The digital transformation of higher education … for better and for worse

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  The cruel optimism of EdTech

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  What is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech?

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  What do ed-tech policymakers want from academic research?

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  Reading in the digital age