restofworld.org/2024/mali-ai-t…

Two ySKILLS conclusions on #research #children #youth

✔️ #DigitalLiteracy is both a valued outcome and the means of realising #ChildRights
✔️ #DigitalLiteracy cannot guarantee children’s #wellbeing - schools, regulators and industry must play their part
blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/…

'Time to acknowledge that sustainability is indigeneity writ large'. A worthwhile read. Thank u Payal Arora

'Where technology is used, teacher and student data and privacy protections should be safeguarded.'
Recommendations on Teachers and Tech from the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession

ilo.org/global/industr…… ✨

#SDG4
#TechonOurTerms

[BREAKING NEWS] A DA councillor has been arrested for the October arson attack at the home of Bergville councillor Michael Buthelezi. Buthelezi's wife and three children died in the blaze. #DStv403 #eNCA

Calling all CAREGIVERS and TEACHERS looking for interesting and stimulating African language children's books that focus on local content. Visit ulwazilwethu.org.za. Let's get our children reading so we can reverse the narrative that our children cannot read!!!

Valuable advice for graduate students

In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-…

404media.co/ai-generated-m…

Serving as moderator today in the #unesco DLW public lecture and dialogue with 2 laureates of the 2018 AM Turing Award Prof Yann LeCun VP Chief AI Scientist Meta & Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Quebec AI Institute.
University of Johannesburg

unesco.org/en/weeks/digit…

I look forward to critical discussion today as our team presents an initial draft of the #UNESCO #AI Competency Framework for Teachers at Digital Learning Week. Growing critical consciousness & transformative ethical agency of teachers underpins the framework. University of Johannesburg UJ News

A useful list of 'Open Access Journals in Educational Technology'
joshuaweidlich.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/ope…
by Joshua Weidlich

'If the forced move to online schooling demonstrated one thing, it is that schools as physical hubs - where people congregate and interact - are a necessity for the welfare of young people.'
tes.com/magazine/analy…

New today! A summary of our research showing the absence of Matthew effects in NAPLAN
reading and numeracy from Yr 3 to Yr 9.

Link to an open access version of the paper here authors.elsevier.com/a/1hJhU,8E16Ed…

theconversation.com/our-research-s… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Uni of New England

A useful report by Unesco, with inputs from many experts incl. ⁦Guy Berger @[email protected]⁩
#AI

Reporting on artificial intelligence: a handbook for #journalism educators - #UNESCO Digital Library unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0…

Citing concerns that facial recognition tech infringes on privacy and increases discrimination, over 100 artists have announced that they are boycotting any concert venue that uses it. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

No words can express my happiness today!!! Look at this cohort!! 😍🤩The goal of my research is to reimagine internet infrastructure from the South, from Latin America, from Indigenous territories. So many people to thank & celebrate with!! ❤️ Thank you Just Tech committee!

'..one of the most contentious amendments is the European Parliament’s proposed ban on biometric surveillance, which would include the facial-recognition systems currently used by law enforcement.' spectrum.ieee.org/ai-regulation-…

Yes! A much-needed reminder that ArXiv papers aren't peer-reviewed.