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5Rights Foundation @5rightsfound.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Children want technology that supports them, not technology that constantly watches them. We’re joining 120+ organizations calling on governments to prohibit unlawful digital surveillance of children in educational, commercial and care settings. 🔗 Statement: 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joi...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"AI in education revives old debates on who defines and teaches 'truth.' As LLMs shape how knowledge is built and shared, tech firms, not states, could emerge as new global educators. ... able to influence millions with no pedagogical or ethical framework." www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
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Who educates the LLMs?
AI in education revives old debates on who defines and teaches “truth.” As LLMs shape how knowledge is built and shared, tech firms, not states, could emerge as new global educators
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talia-k.bsky.social @talia-k.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Just clocked this interesting/worrying article about a MAT sacking one of its primary schools governing bodies. The LEA would have had to follow a much more rigorous process: educationuncovered.co.uk/news/multi-a...
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"Generative AI use reflects and amplifies structural inequalities in digital access, literacy and opportunities" blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
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AI literacy in an unequal world: pitfalls and promises - Media@LSE
Can AI literacy deliver? LSE's Mariya Stoilova and Professor Sonia Livingstone discuss their latest findings from the DFC project on AI and children’s rights.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"Hype is no longer fleeting noise. It has become institutionalised, calculable, and consequential." Neat little essay on studying hype practices, devices, and techniques www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/h...
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Hype is not noise: Why we need Hype Studies
In this article, Professor Neil Pollock, Chair in Innovation and Social Informatics at the University of Edinburgh Business School, and Professor Robin Williams, Director of the Institute for the Stud...
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Rather than a just transition, where decarbonised economies are accompanied by more democratic workplaces and a fairer distribution of wealth, we're getting an AI-driven 'unjust transition' that reinforces the global fossil-fuel autocracy. Case in point: restofworld.org/2025/khazna-...
restofworld.org
The invisible backbone of the UAE’s AI superpower dreams
UAE's largest data center operator Khazna is challenging Western assumptions while building regional dominance.
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jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New open access article critically examining ClassDojo, published in @lmt-journal.bsky.social. In it we collate data from across 3 studies to scrutinise ClassDojo & argue it promotes a relationship of obedience between student & teacher @digitalchildau.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication
ClassDojo is a popular educational technology platform used by teachers to manage students’ behaviour and communicate with parents. This platform, though, along with other similar digital classroom...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Those of us studying edtech platforms and infrastructures in education talk a bit about vendor "lock-ins" - how schools can't get out of a platform once they're on it. This is a magnificent paper about that by @lucascone.bsky.social and Signe Sophus Lai www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
1. Data lock-in: Schools become dependent on Google's systems,which collect and use data from students and teachers.
2. Political lock-in: Digital solutions have become part of politicalmodernization projects—and are therefore difficult to roll back.
3. Regulatory lock-in: Legislation lags behind technology, and it isdifficult to enforce rules on global players.
4. Discursive lock-in: The debate is characterized by an "eitherChromebooks or blackboards" rhetoric that makes alternativesinvisible.
5. Temporal lock-in: The longer the technology has been in use, theharder it becomes to switch to something else.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I really enjoyed this chat with @honeypisquared.bsky.social & @darrenmacey.bsky.social . If you're a teacher or in education their webinar take-down of the Department for Education's so-called 'support' materials is a must-watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuFI...
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AI in Education: How evidence-based are the DfE's new AI support materials?
YouTube video by Lucy Rycroft-Smith (research)
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
English politicians "wringing their hands" about the child obesity epidemic can start by making their walking and cycling to school safer, more pleasant and healthier with a 20mph limit as an urban/village norm. Wales has done it, Scotland is doing it. bit.ly/4etcF9s
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Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, study shows
Exclusive: Analysis by Royal Society for Public Health suggests obesity rates will rise in 90% of the country
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jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Big congrats to Mathias Decuypere, Sigrid Hartong, Jeremy Knox & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social for putting on the inaugural ECCES which brought together many in the critical edtech research community. Capped off with an inspiring keynote from @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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talia-k.bsky.social @talia-k.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Dataveillance taking greater hold as schools implement DfE guidance to conduct online searches/social media checks for candidates prior to interview (in addition to statutory DBS checks). Interesting to see which actors are moving in to this space: onlinescr.co.uk/feature/soci...
onlinescr.co.uk
Social Media Checks for Schools | Single Central Record
The Department of Education guidance now recommends social media and online reputation screening for prospective staff in England.
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talia-k.bsky.social @talia-k.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Really important article below highlighting how corporate PR agencies are using digital education games in UK schools/communities/STEM centres to sanitise oil/energy reputations specifically targeting children: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
thebureauinvestigates.com
Oil giant Equinor funds game that promotes fossil fuels to children
An online game used in UK schools portrays oil, gas and coal as part of a green transition.
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talia-k.bsky.social @talia-k.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#UoEDigEdStudentConf recordings are now available here: media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Digi.... I particularly recommend Bex Drummond's presentation on 'Can GenAI level the playing field for students with barriers to learning?'
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Media Hopper Create
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
While the EU pushes for digital sovereignty, it appears that the UK is further entrenching its nation in Silicon Valley dependency, writes Tech Policy Press Fellow Megan Kirkwood. www.techpolicy.press/the-uks-ai-s...
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The UK’s AI Strategy Risks Entrenching the Power of Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
While the EU pushes for digital sovereignty, it appears that the UK is further entrenching its nation in Silicon Valley dependency, writes Megan Kirkwood.
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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Can tech support equity in schools? Teachers and edtech developers in SW UK - please join us for a workshop on designing and using edtech for equity. Please share!
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