senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Digital Education, Education Futures & Digital Cultural Heritage.
Pleased to announce the call for the first-ever European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies, taking place 18-20 June 2025 in Zurich!
If you, your colleagues or PhD students are doing critical edtech research anywhere in the world, please share and submit a paper proposal https://phzh.ch/en/about-phzh/news-events-and-current-topics/events/event/?anlassId=144640902
These slides are wonderful, thank you @mia
From: @mia
https://hcommons.social/@mia/113237259170456172
There’s a chill post-humanism that is like “all kinds of things create and think in their own way and we form a super intelligence with them” and then there is chaotic post-humanism that is like “humans eat language and shit it out and that’s what AI does but without the gross parts, so hate yourself and love VC money”
If we don’t document the shape and structure of online GLAM collections now, how will future historians understand their impact? This post includes a list of datasets I've created from GLAM collections (mostly Trove & RecordSearch), and some notes about why I think it's important to do this sort of work – it's my love letter to future historians... https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/09/20/preserving-the-history.html #GLAM #openData #histodons @histodons #digitalHumanities #digipres
🤖🤖🤖 SocialAI: We tried the Twitter clone where no other humans are allowed https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247253/social-ai-app-replace-humans-with-bots
Centre for Research in Digital Education @ University of Edinburgh is hiring a new Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Education Futures. Closing date 12 Sept. This is a thriving area of research and teaching in the Centre, with opportunities to be closely involved in our MSc Digital Education and Education Futures programmes. Many cool things are happening - come and join us! Ping me with questions. #EducationFutures #DigitalEducation #academicjobs #Edinburgh https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hc
We are recruiting! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Education Futures, based in the Centre for Research in Digital Education at Edinburgh University. Closing date for applications 9th September. Happy to chat if that would be helpful. Apply here: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/8278
New post on "PedagoGPT" - as AI becomes increasingly infrastructural, new training courses on generative AI from big tech companies will play an influential role in habituating users, making them friendly to AI, and synchronizing everyday routines and desires to giant commercial business aspirations https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2023/06/10/pedagogpt/
The Council for at Risk Academics (CARA) works closely with academics in and from Syria. Now CARA are using their network to get direct support to people affected by the earthquake, and their families. If you have the capacity to donate, or share this link, please do. (Can vouch for CARA: in 2018 they facilitated an event where @mseangallagher, @hamacleod & I worked with a group of Syrian colleagues, developing approaches to online education.) https://bit.ly/CaraQuake
RT @LeithChooses@twitter.com
Getting excited - £eith Chooses voting opens next week! You can vote online (easiest for many) OR - new this year- you can use a paper based postal voting form. #Leith
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LeithChooses/status/1613157498881732609
Recording now available. If you missed 'Exploring speculative approaches to digital education futures', which marked the launch of Dr Jen Ross' book 'Digital Futures for Learning', you can catch up now. https://buff.ly/3iO6V1v
Cool that the University of #Edinburgh (specifically EFI, Creative Informatics and CDCS) is collaborating with #Flickr on their 100 year plan. https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/flickr-foundations-100-year-plan #mscde #digital #education #futures
We developed 8 new speculative scenarios for the future of higher education, research-based and freely downloadable including 8 ‘tarot’ cards and 8 very short stories. More here and I’ll post snippets over the next couple of days: https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/higher-education-futures-8-scenarios-8-tarot-cards-and-8-short-stories @CRDE @mseangallagher @jaross
Noam Chomsky on LLMs:
> “When you have a theory there are two kinds of questions you have to ask. Why are things this way? Why are things not that way? If you don’t get the second question you’ve done nothing.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk-mlst/id1510472996?i=1000569314505
Higher Education Futures: 8 scenarios, 8 tarot cards, and 8 short stories developed by @sbayne @jaross and me: https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/higher-education-futures-8-scenarios-8-tarot-cards-and-8-short-stories #mscde #digital #education #edtech
This is a really good (and open access!) paper on futures-oriented methods in education from Cerratto-Pargman, Lindberg and Buch - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-022-00349-6 - I especially appreciate the distinction they make between representational and futures-oriented methods. #EducationFutures #PostdigitalScienceEducation #EdTechodon
Love this: "... an Internet Pigeon Network as a prototype ... is a speculation for a community-organized, affordable, resilient #internet #infrastructure for the #Gaza Strip that brings together different modes of building #communication #networks: one draws on millennia-long #history of the #pigeon post and the other on contemporary local #WiFi and do-it-yourself networks." By Helga Tawil-Souri #Palestine #Commodon #diy
https://t.co/dBApdJZDI6
Making my way through the materials developed by @sbayne @jaross and myself that extend the Near Future Teaching project (2017-2019) at the University of #Edinburgh into a post-pandemic place (hopefully). Full materials available soon for this interested in #futures #digital #education #mscde
