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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Forensic new report on the relations between universities, the edtech industry and investors, with 11 key takeaways that should be the basis of institutional and policy discussions about edtech in HE going forward www.researchcghe.org/publications...

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Edtech in Higher Education: Empirical Findings from the Project ‘Universities and Unicorns: Building Digital Assets in the Higher Education Industry’ | CGHE

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/03/2024

“If China remains the place of cheap labor for Silicon Valley innovations, the Nordic countries are today the source of cheap land and cheap renewable electricity for machines needed to produce the new business of Sillicon Valley around data processing and AI.”

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Dismantling Public Values, One Data Center at the Time - NordMedia Network

“Nordic states are letting go of values and infrastructure resources that are dear to the welfare state", writes Julia Velkova, adding: "Rather than bending to Big Tech values and modes of operation, ...

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Lulu Shi @lulushi.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Call for BJSE abstract now online, email me your critical thoughts 🖌️ think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Lulu Shi @lulushi.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Not saying that tech can never be useful, but the rhetoric that shiny tech is key to 'luring students' into the classroom like in the opening lines here or in another Guardian piece last year on using robots to tackle truancy in Japan is misleading at best. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

No doubt the next year will see proliferating partnerships of AI companies with universities, so it's a good time for this call for a special issue on AI and technosolutionism in education edited by @lulushi.bsky.social Rebecca Eynon, Jeremy Knox & @neilselwyn.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lulu...

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Lulu Shi @lulushi.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

To my sociologist and AI and education researcher friends: my co-editors, Rebecca Eynon, Jeremy Knox , @neilselwyn.bsky.social are putting together a SI on AI and education (from a sociological perspective) for the British Journal of Sociology of Education. If that’s your topic, send your abstract!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/12/2023

“AI is being used as form of 'shock doctrine', where the sense of urgency generated by an allegedly world-transforming technology is used as an opportunity to transform social systems without democratic debate.” — @danmcquillan.bsky.social danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcheri...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/12/2023

“In the future, Dr Chen and colleagues envision a world where trillions of sensors are deployed into everything in the world. Clothing will have nanosensors woven into the fabric, homes will have them in every room and even our toothbrushes will have them in the bristles.” 💀

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Exclusive: AI breaktrhough could let your next running shoes learn and adapt to how you move

AlZip is creating self-building AI that can live in everyday objects

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford Internet Institute! Explore video games' impact on mental health. PhD required, expertise in data analysis vital. Fixed-term till Feb 2025. Details and apply (Jan 8th): www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacan... #PostdocJobs #MentalHealthResearch #VideoGames

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