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Who shapes the platforms we are told to use in education?

Digital tools are never neutral. They carry assumptions about pedagogy, power, and control.

In my latest blog post, I argue that digital policy is pedagogical. Educators need to engage with it, not just implement it.

Read the post:
https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0031_digital_policy_is_pedagogy.html

#DigitalPedagogy #EdTech #CriticalPedagogy #PlatformPolitics #EducationPolicy

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AI, Assessment, and the Automation of Judgement

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-5868-359f-07f3-7be267815052

If AI can write essays and give feedback, what are we really assessing?

My latest blog post explores how AI challenges not just assessment practice but the automation of judgement itself.

Read it here:
https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0030_ai_assessment_and_the_automation_of_judgement.html

#Education #Assessment #AI #DigitalPedagogy #AuthenticAssessment #CriticalPedagogy #EdTech #Fediverse

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Learning Management Systems do more than deliver content - they deliver assumptions.

My latest blog post looks at The Hidden Curriculum of the LMS and how platform design can shape what counts as teaching, often without our noticing.

What values are encoded in your LMS? And how do they shape the choices available to educators?

Read it here: https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0029_the_hidden_curriculum_of_the_lms.html

#elearning #LMS #digitalpedagogy #criticalpedagogy #highered

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New blog post: Framing the Digital: Why Pedagogy Must Come Before Platform

Too often, platforms shape teaching by default. This post argues for putting pedagogy first and resisting technology-led design.

Read it here:
https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0028_framing_the_digital.html

#DigitalPedagogy #CriticalPedagogy #OnlineLearning #EdTech #PedagogyFirst

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New blog post: Reclaiming Assessment Through Annotation

Annotation can be a powerful assessment practice in online and distance education. It supports critical pedagogy, invites authentic engagement, and offers resilience against AI-generated work.

How can we centre thinking, not just output?

#Assessment #Annotation #OnlineLearning #CriticalPedagogy #AIResilience

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New blog post: Reclaiming Society - How Progressive Education Can Resist the Rise of Extremism

Extremism thrives when education is reduced to compliance and market logic. In this post, I explore how progressive, participatory learning - including online and distance modes - can help resist polarisation and rebuild democratic culture.

Full post here:
https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0025_reclaiming_society.html

#Education #CriticalPedagogy #ProgressiveEducation #DigitalLearning #OpenEducation #MastodonEdu

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Is generative AI exposing cracks in how we teach and assess—or just helping us paper over them?

In my latest post, I argue that the real issue isn’t AI. It’s our limited educational imagination.

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📢 New blog post: Time to Reopen the Conversation on OERs
Despite early momentum, OERs have largely disappeared from strategic discussion in many UK universities—especially the Russell Group. Why is that, and why does it matter?

🧠 Reflecting on my own experience, I argue for a renewed institutional commitment to open education.

Read the post 👉 https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0014_time_to_reopen_the_conversation_on_oers.html

#OER #OpenEducation #UKHE #DigitalPedagogy #CriticalPedagogy #EdTech

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#DeepTransformation #Network

Hello
#CriticalPedagogy

‘Against the Dictatorship of Ignorance. Lecture by Henry Giroux

Critical Theory (??)__
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoEP3sW9Lco

.\Can You Find Joy in a World of Suffering(?)__

https://deeptransformation.network/posts/81929377

Is there space for critical pedagogy in UK TEL research?
Most funding seems to reward scale, tech, and policy alignment --- not deep pedagogical critique.
What's your experience? Are we missing vital conversations?

https://elearning.home.nomagic.uk/0011_why_critical_pedagogy_and_tel_are_not_research_priorities_in_the_uk.html

#DigitalEducation #TEL #CriticalPedagogy #UKResearch

Hello Fediverse!

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1967-df40-0386-d82480399108

Second Breakfast: "The War on the Imagination"
By Audrey Watters • 03 Mar 2025 • New York

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-the-imagination/

"We can't automate this work, obviously. It’s not a task or a routine to be engineered. It’s relational, emotional."

#imagine #ideas #criticaltheory #politicaltheory #criticalpedagogy #digital #technologypolicy #criticalpolicy #democracy #arts

How is #STS a form of #CriticalPedagogy? What reflexive, creative + political work does it require?

Learn fm a #collective of scholars & students about such questions that they developed in their #workshop: https://doi.org/nvzq

Associated Data: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4302j

Wordcloud generated during the workshop. The background is black with words of different sizes and colors juxtaposed. By sam smiley, one of the authors of the piece.

How is #STS a form of #CriticalPedagogy? What reflexive, creative + political work does it require?

Learn fm a #collective of scholars & students about such questions that they developed in their #workshop: https://doi.org/nvzq

Associated Data: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4302j

How is #STS a form of #CriticalPedagogy? What reflexive, creative + political work does it require?

Learn fm a #collective of scholars & students about such questions that they developed in their #workshop: https://doi.org/nvzq

Associated Data: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4302j

How may #BigData's dream of timelessness be countered through #CriticalPedagogy?

@wrongrrl on #pedagogy of #SituatedData in #community archives — the #BiologicalComputerLab + #CommunityDataClinic at @UofIllinois: https://doi.org/nvz3

Associated Data: https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4g880

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📢📢📢10.1-2 Out Now!

includes 2 ORA, 1 Engagement, & 2 collections on microbial standards & STS Pedagogies, covering topics of #colonialism #vaccination #bioenergy #AI #Agribiopolitics #CriticalPedagogy & more: https://bit.ly/4eYRZVI

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Aren’t you supposed to be working on your last assignment for the teaching period?

#Caturday #TuxedoCat #MEd #MixedMethods #Survey #ResearchDesign #Empathy #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #PDA #Constructivism #CriticalPedagogy

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Lets talk about emancipatory sociodigital educations / hacker education in ISCAR Congress!

#CriticalPedagogy #hackereducation #sociodigitalFutures

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