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Digital technologies and the commercialism of education

Faith 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

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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