This excellent editorial by @lucipangrazio.bsky.social pulls together so many important threads in the "AI Literacy" conversation. A concise and valuable resource for anyone doing work in this area.
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Have used your blog piece on this Ben (thanks), in a course I’m teaching this semester hoping it helps (at least in a small way) to counter students often uncritical use of AI to support their writing.
"Zombie citations" of work that was never written are becoming a big problem in academic publishing. After encountering one recently I tried tracking down its source. Instead I found a growing mob of mutant references gathering on Google Scholar codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...
Welcome Carlo, & congrats on the new(ish) job. Nice to see & hear from another familiar voice on here.
black and white picture of a 'No Phones' sign ... with a yellow text title: "Are we seeing a digital backlash in education'
The Swedish government is pushing to get digital tech out of classrooms ... listen to me talk with Dr. Ingrid Forsler about why this is, and what it means for digital education around the world: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Important insights from Ben here that point to the extremmy corrosive impact AI tech is having on knowledge production in research. So depressing.
I do think social science people thinking their research papers on AI are uniquely exciting because they're *about AI* need to get a grip a bit. I help edit a social science journal on education and technology, and the endless submissions about AI - let alone produced by it - are mostly very tedious
Have you read first online #OA article by Neil Tippett, Anna Sullivan, Jamie Manolev, Bruce Johnson & Barry Down ‘How policies of school exclusion frame practice: a comparative analysis of Australian state education policies' in AER? https://loom.ly/Glp71Pc
Thanks for the boost AARE!
New paper: Computational social science and critical studies of education and technology: an improbable combination? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Rebecca Eynon and Nabeel Gillani
Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...
New paper alert! In this article I look at the rise of the 'single platform solution' in schools driven by big tech. Very difficult to keep corporate logics at bay!
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Photo of a tote bag with printed text "Distrusting educational technology" and stickers reading "Get AI out of education" and "Ed-tech is full of bullshit"
Cool parcel in the post of an "Ed-tech Agitprop Pack" unexpectedly sent by @neilselwyn.bsky.social
"The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.
JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM
They've lost the 9yos
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....
A parent at our kids' preschool asked if I knew of any studies about ClassDojo because it's used in her older kid's classroom and I said yes, yes I do, and then I emailed her all of @jamiemanolev.bsky.social and co-authors' excellent work analyzing the platform, including two open articles. First:
Thanks for the boost & kind words Charles. It's pleasing to know some are finding value in this research. Coincidently, we've just published a new open access collaborative piece which further examines ClassDojo's use in schools and with families - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥
Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
New on our blog: A preview of @benpatrickwill.bsky.socialECER 2025 Keynote: Educational genomics is a fast-growing area of research, but should policy or practice be based on an individual's DNA? #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/should-genetics-play-a-role-in-education/
Screencap from linked article, reading: “These tools are designed to look like objective, all-knowing systems, and I think it’s important to get kids used to asking, ‘Who are the people who built this? Who said and wrote the original things that became the training data? Whose artwork was stolen by these companies to produce the training sets?’” said Bender. For kids too young to connect with those questions, Bender suggests parents focus on the environmental impact. “Every time you use a chatbot, you’re helping to build the case for the company to develop the next model and build the next data center. Data centers have to be cooled with massive amounts of clean water, and clean water usually means drinking water.” Whose drinking water will be diverted? That said, I wanted to provide a couple of corrections. When I problematize the term "AI", the goal is to get people to stop using it. "Many tools that use AI" doesn't mean anything. "Many tools that are sold as 'AI'" is okay. But more importantly: those study-aid podcasts systems are TRASH and nothing like automatic transcription tools.
I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.
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To claim that one skill is clever and another mundane, is to engage in the silencing of the intelligences that GenAI companies extract in the first place. GenAI is, in essence intelligence extraction, not intelligence learning.
OpenAI is now in your LMS and Trump's mandating "non-ideological" AI literacy. Here's an updated list of critical research on AI in education to make sense of it all.
Cheers Barry!
Delighted to share our (open access) pub examining 'How policies of school exclusion frame practice'. We analyse legislation guiding exclusions in 4 Aus states, & argue their use prioritises school over student needs. @australianare.bsky.social #schoolexclusions link.springer.com/article/10.1...
And now consider the implications of using this tool in/for education
