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Stephen Gow

@steviegow.bsky.social
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Leverhulme Research Fellow - Student use of AI at Edinburgh Napier University. Academic Integrity, Assessment, AI. Music loving, nature loving mountain biker.

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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d... - argues that institutions are institutions are "not investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... - our universities struggle, staff and students suffer, yet these guys are swimming in Scrooge McDuck-esque pools of profit....
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Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@emilyehoyle.substack.com fascinating lecture at York yesterday Emily. Wondered whether you have come across Cyberselfish www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-bors... and also the discourse on techbros either misunderstanding or trying make dystopian scifi real?: www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech....
thenerdreich.com
Paulina Borsook Saw Tech Fascism Coming
"Cyberselfish" author interviewed on Nerd Reich podcast
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day... What “Smart” Really Means: “Smart” often implies a lack of control “Cheap” signifies compromised security “Convenience” often involves hidden surveillance The Golden Rule: Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices Treat them as strangers in your home
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The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started ...
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social you may want to check these out Yanis - pretty sure this is not you on this channel: youtu.be/GRXKavRIBN8?... - 16:15 you seem to develop a Canadian accent!
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Nadikudi Nadine
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...
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Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms
This article examines the rise of platform bureaucratization in highly digitalized classrooms. Drawing on an ethnographic study in a Swedish lower secondary school, we examine how teachers and stud...
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
youtu.be/aByWLQ7h2n0 #aiappeasment anyone? I can't even trust myself not to get distracted when working online - if my kids are on a laptop trying to do homework most of the time I check, they are doing something else. If they have a book/paper exercise, they happily get on with it...
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How Big Tech Uses YOUR Kids’ Classrooms To Sell THEIR Products
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... @kaiserkuo.bsky.social - sure you know this story already but worth a read - a parallel narrative to Feifei Li's excellent autobiography...love the thought of fire side salons keeping the intellectual embers going during the Cultural Revolution...
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Two Dancers, 1949, by Salvador Dali
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“Educational technology has become, in its ontological infrastructures, increasingly centralised, less open and more powerful. Through GenAI, it is less truthful, less trustworthy and more epistemologically nihilistic.” @eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Authoritarian EdTech - Eamon Costello, Stephen Gow, 2025
Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...
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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Our open-access AIED commentary is out "Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings" 🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald open-publishing.org/journals/ind...
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Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings | Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Beginning to put some details on my visit to NZ in November for #ISSOTL. Going to spend a bit of time in Aus too. Anyone want me to come visit and talk about our work? Hidden Curriculum, belonging, assessment and curriculum design…
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@davidmusgrave.bsky.social Enjoyed your INRAP session today, then found this: "...if the economy can't tell that we swapped out a human with an AI, well, that's what AGI is." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/agi-beyond...
centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com
AGI Beyond the Buzz: What Is It, and Are We Ready?
Aza Raskin and Randima Fernando.
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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely
Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
An absolute must watch: youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... - we need to end Technological Appeasement.
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Join the excellent Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier - two full-time Academic Skills Advisers. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Good morning. To foreshadow a project at KIng's where we are collecting examples from across faculties of modified assessments I have begun collecting a few from elsewhere. Is it about AI or is it just about better assessment? Some are former; some the latter I think. mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/a...
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But how? And why even? Practical examples of ways assessments have been modified
Modifying or changing assessment ‘because of AI’ always feels like it feeds ‘us and them’ narratives of a forthcoming apocalypse (already predicted) and couches the change a…
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.studentxgenai.co.uk/genai-digest... - some useful GenAI and education resources so far this year.
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GenAI Digest February 2025 — StudentX GenAI
Early GenAI 2025.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
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Jonathan Bailey @plagiarismtoday.com · 11/02/2025
A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j... #Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw
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Judge Rules Against Fair Use Defense for AI Company - Plagiarism Today
A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.
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Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
academicintegrity.org/resources/bl... My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity
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If integrity is what we do when no-one is watching - what are the implications of a tool like Grammarly Authorship?
The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) cultivates. integrity in academic communities throughout the world to promote ethical institutions and societies. ICAI offers assessment services...
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