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🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪

As part of LMT's 20th anniversary, in this editorial eight current and former editors reflect on the journal's achievements and consider its future.

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@adriancrowley.bsky.social help! I really can’t stop playing ‘Measure of Joy’. Were these the new songs forming when you played the Green Note? Gorgeous. Looking forward to the Servant Jazz Quarters show!

Playing the Archive Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Opies built...

Our book from our Playing the Archive project a few years ago is out now. Open access, free download from uclpress.co.uk/book/playing... @uclremap.bsky.social @vsigno.bsky.social

Briefly thought you were in France. Thanks for clarifying 😌

Here is an account of our recent Digital Inequalities and AI day which we shared with the UCL Knowledge Lab partly as a CSET event @vsigno.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social @neilselwyn.bsky.social reflect.ucl.ac.uk/remap-collab...

Usually to be seen dumped outside our house but much nicer in that setting ✔️

Sudden panic because I’m away. Did I remember to order this already? Phew! Yes, of course I did. Looking forward to it 👍

Couldn’t agree more. Well said, Anna 👍😌

The Fight About AI In this Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield shares some of his thoughts ahead of the forthcoming

"My root worry about AI has always been that while it was making machine learning better, it was also making human learning worse. I am not alone in this. ... AI doesn’t improve thinking but blocks essential stages of it."
isrf.org/blog/the-fig...

"If universities don’t start asking harder questions about AI’s real value, they’ll keep spending money they don’t have on tools their students don’t need—while real educational challenges go unresolved."

Beyond risk: reducing the gap between diaspora youth digital citizenship needs and school curricula by Amelia Johns, Anita Harris, Emily Booth, Gilbert Caluya and Jessica Walton ABSTRACT Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with social issues and citizenship practices. Diaspora youth are further stigmatised, being defined as ‘at-risk’ of greater harm from digital environments, which frames them as victims or non-agentic. This article draws on qualitative research with diaspora youth, as well as policymakers and educators, about their digital citizenship education needs, practices and views. We explore their perceptions of digital citizenship: as a concept and practice, and also its place and framing within Australian school education. The findings reflect a disconnect between diaspora youth and key stakeholders regarding the purpose and benefits of digital citizenship education. This illustrates a need for a more nuanced approach that takes diaspora youths’ own experiences, needs and aspirations seriously in the design of school curricula.

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪

In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.

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What is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech? Neil Selwyn in Conversation with Felicitas Macgilchrist

🟨 #LMT News 🟪

#LMT Editor Felicitas Macgilchrist (@discoursology.bsky.social) joins Neil Selwyn (@neilselwyn.bsky.social) to talk about what is 'critical' in critical studies of #EdTech.

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

Welcome to LMT's Editorial Team Luci Pangrazio

🟨 #LMT News 🟪

We warmly welcome Luci Pangrazio (@lucipangrazio.bsky.social) as new member of the #LMT editorial team! After many years of great contributions to the research field as well as the journal's editorial board we are excited to have her add a fourth voice to the editorial team.

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New Lost and Found www.mixcloud.com/richard-grah... with @darrenhayman.bsky.social an old @theleaflibrary.bsky.social track, a new @firestations.bsky.social one and a collaboration ‘Mirrored Daughters’ and much more including Neko Case, new Nada Reid, Tunng, Seamus Fogarty...

Five questions to ask before adopting a new technology | LSE Higher Education As AI becomes a part of the edtech landscape, LSE HE Blog Fellow Maha Bali exhorts educators to ask five questions when considering a new technology for their course

If any proposed edtech tool doesn't necessarily help us do things better, why do we always phrase ethical use of AI as a "why not" question when the people who support its use don't offer a compelling "why even"?
More detailed thoughts here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI Going our own way will unleash national renewal

Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: “we can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulate” #STS’ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy

Jessica Rose Morley, PhD on LinkedIn: UK AI Opportunities Action Plan **UK AI Opportunities Action Plan ** It's quite the tech-utopian, hype-escalating feast, but given the focus on 'opportunities' this is hardly surprising…

My thoughts on the unsurprisingly tech-utopian AI Action Plan are too long to fit in BlueSky post or thread, but they are available here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jessic...

Pleased to say Learning, Media & Technology is now on here @lmt-journal.bsky.social and this special issue editorial from just before end of last year on MiniEdTech gives a sense of the kind of critical research on education and tech we publish @johnpp.bsky.social @discoursology.bsky.social

Is that on the Green Chain south of Chinbrook Meadows - feel sure I’ve walked over that at some point 🤔

Hope this goes well, Lyndsay. Looks great! We are hosting as well at the Knowledge Lab!

The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI” They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They have replaced poor kids with rich kids.

The Unbound Academy grift as summarized by @ddmeyer.bsky.social includes this self-dealing: "It is a conflict of interest, then, that 100% of Unbound Academy’s named board members are affiliated with th[e] vendors" whose services the board is paying for with public dollars.

We're getting the social media crisis wrong The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics

We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

Done! And I have had City Song on repeat lately. New Lost and Found coming soon. We are back! See you there…

Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Hello @amandaallenphd.bsky.social I’m on here. Finally posted something. Thanks for the nudge on FB…😌

Yes. Me too. I was lucky to see him. Great writer and performer. Wonderful human. 😌