sample Australian school letter triggered by their LMS Chat GPT detection system ... it is all awkwardly worded, but being informed that you have 'traces of AI' in your submitted work is especially unsettling!

I'm really looking forward to December & being able to talk at 'Udforsk AI 2024' with Marte Blikstad-Balas Professor Pigga Keskitalo & Rune Johan Krumsvik - Nordic Conference on AI Research in the Education Sector ... hope to see you there! uia.no/english/about-…

As some teachers start to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their work, a majority are uncertain about or see downsides to the general use of AI tools in K-12 education, according to our fall 2023 survey. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Emotion AI in schools ... most people agree that computers can't 'detect' emotions, so why are AI products now being sold to monitor attention, concentration, distraction etc? I talk to Nathalie DiBerardino about the problems with this form of EdTech: buzzsprout.com/1301377/150635…

new article ... looking at the politics of how facial recognition tech is creeping into everyday public spaces as a quick technical fix - on this occasion the push for installing FR in Australian pubs and gambling venues to exclude problem gamblers: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I keep seeing this paper doing the rounds, and a lot of people are taking it as evidence to support smartphone bans. But there's something about it that I can't quite get my head around. More than half of the schools in the study didn't actually ban smartphones...

Mental health education & social-emotional learning in schools ... I got to chat with Neil Humphrey about the latest research evidence & thinking around this fast growing area of education: soundcloud.com/eetheducatione…

🔥Now in press at PNAS Nexus 🔥

We provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of generative AI’s potential impacts on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare.

Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen

I enjoyed chatting with Neil Selwyn about banning young people's mobile technologies in England's schools. Our conversation is now available on all major podcast platforms 📲 👇

Banning smartphones from schools continues to be a popular idea amongst many politicians and parents, but is clearly not ideal ... listen to me chat with jack reed about the latest efforts by the UK government to make schools phone-free: buzzsprout.com/1301377/149681…

Los profesores no están siendo reemplazados por robots físicos per se, pero están rodeados cada vez más de software, aplicaciones, plataformas y otras formas de inteligencia artificial diseñada para llevar a cabo tareas pedagógicas. Neil Selwyn

Thrilled to share that my book is coming out in October with Hopkins Press. Bringing together STS and critical university studies, it investigates the increasing use of digital tools for 'solving' higher education challenges through surveillance. press.jhu.edu/books/title/12…

Digital tech is steadily creeping into early childhood centres... listen to my chat with Antti Paakkari (Tampere University) about his research into how digital portfolios, activity trackers & iPads are changing the dynamics of early childhood education in 🇫🇮... buzzsprout.com/1301377/148899…

academic education research is not in great shape at the moment (increasingly irrelevant, over-theorised & sidelined by competing forms of 'evidence') ... listen to Prof. Sally Power talk about how we might begin to rethink and reinvigorate the field: soundcloud.com/eetheducatione…

AERA Meryl Alper Michael D. Smith 'Critical Data Literacies' is a guide to navigating a world increasingly governed by data, in which Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn
demonstrate how individuals and communities can empower themselves to engage with data critically and creatively.
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546829/…

Live facial recognition technology is fundamentally flawed and poorly deployed. This is security theatre, and does more damage than good.

Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality. Launching September 2024. Pre-order now available. ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

we are hiring! 2.5 year research assistant post (0.8FTE) to be part of our ARC-funded research on the realities of teachers' engagements with AI in secondary schools - deadline for applications 31/5: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

Face-to-face schooling around the world is now being regularly disrupted by extreme climate events ... we need adapt our approaches to school provision accordingly for an age of extreme heat, winds & flooding: theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State' (ed by Rita Matulionyte and myself) - OPEN ACCESS! 19 chapters & 34 contributors discuss socio-legal implications of FRT in jurisdictions from 5 world regions - Europe, North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa