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Schools, 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  

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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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  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