University just sent an email about ongoing stress on campus electrical grid due to heat wave and decison to increase building temps to attempt to alleviate stress, so maybe we should talk about AI use in education in relation to that, eh?

Call for papers now open - Digital Intimacies X at Monash's Caulfield campus and remote, December 4-6. digintx2024.tumblr.com

"Consistent with prior work, our results show that access to GPT-4 significantly improves performance... However, we additionally find that when access is subsequently taken away, students actually perform worse than those who never had access" #ethics #AI #education #research

Listen to Monash professor jo lampert talk about the 'perfect storm' of staff recruitment problems currently facing schools, and how school leaders can practically support those teachers who are still standing... bit.ly/46mCvrX Neil Selwyn

Looking for a text to support teachers in contextualizing (gen)AI in the broader issues of the digital automation of education? This from Neil Selwyn & colleagues has resonated & launched great convos:Digital Tech & the Automation of Edu-Key Qs & Concerns rdcu.be/dN6JG

UK school caught using facial recognition for canteen payments ... in the words of the UK data regulator: "We’ve taken action against this school to show introducing measures such as FRT should not be taken lightly, particularly when it involves children" computerweekly.com/news/366596461…

School concerns over how to stop their students making 'inappropriate' use of genAI when writing assignments are dragging on ... is this beginning to put teachers off AI altogether? criticaledtech.com/2024/08/06/tea…

Very happy to have been part of this report ... a great overview of the complexities of digital exclusion in the 2020s

Dr. Luci Pangrazio and Dr. Neil Selwyn’s book offers critical perspectives on the challenges and dangers of uncritical acceptance of datafication in contemporary society. Read Dr. Ballenger’s review: ow.ly/3VbZ50SUcNI The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Morehouse College

I talk to Sam Sellar (lead editor of Discourse) about publishing in academic journals ... we talk about common reasons for articles getting desk-rejected, how to be a good peer-reviewer & why scholarly journals still have a future: soundcloud.com/eetheducatione…

"Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis (which it is facilitating), get rid of poverty (on which it is heavily relying), and unleash the full potential of human creativity (which it is undermining)?" ... uniavisen.dk/en/cut-the-ai-…

Lecturer post in Faculty of Education, Monash (Melbourne) ... relational pedagogies, inclusion in education & educational access through a social justice lens ... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

"France is to trial a ban on mobile phones at school for pupils up to the age of 15, seeking to give children a 'digital pause' that, if judged successful, could be rolled out nationwide from January": theguardian.com/world/article/…

I wrote a book on #education about #datafication: "Critical Datafication Literacy. A Framework and Practical Approaches" is available #OpenAccess from transcript Verlag: transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-737… Thanks for supporting this research, Economic and Social Research Council Data Justice Lab Privacy International! Details below:

#PubDay for my first book, Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality, where I argue the push to ameliorate racial inequality via data-intensive #edtech extracts resources from working-class communities of color here in California. ucpress.edu/books/access-i…

"Children as Data Subjects: Families, Schools, and Everyday Lives" - open-access chapter featuring a small discussant contribution toward the end from me & Luci Pangrazio: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

season#2 of the 'Education Technology Society' podcast starts in a couple of weeks - first topics = 'What's the problem with Google Classroom?' & 'AI cheating' ... check out last season's episodes here (and subscribe to get the new content when it drops!): buzzsprout.com/1301377