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Our next CPD Webinar explores 'Top Tips on Student Guidance for the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Higher Education'. #altc Members are invited to join us on 9 July - Learn more: buff.ly/qvXGDvT
"Digital training opportunities should be made available to everyone so that you are providing a safe space to develop digital skills & digital literacy. Make your training accessible to TAs, admin & site staff, governors, students & parents" @ictevangelist.bsky.social @ollylewisedu.bsky.social 1/2
Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time. Spoiler alert. It doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#ARLTSIG next event is part of their series on ‘Tackling racism in the Education and EdTech sector’. Matthew Johnson, the CEO of Race on the Agenda, one of Britain's leading anti-racist change drivers, joins us to explore how we can tackle systemic racism in the Education & EdTech sector.
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“The EdTech bros will counter that they want to re-design schools around their tech. Their vision is to “replace entire functions of the teacher” with their “infinitely patient, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful” AI tutors.
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ALT & Echo360 invite you to join our upcoming webinar (9 April) on leveraging digital technologies to transform learning. Dr. Richard Nelson will guide us through University of Bradford’s transformative journey along their Digital Education Roadmap. Register now - go.alt.ac.uk/4iL9xa8 #altc
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
Episode 110 is out now. In this episode I share a preview of a new space I have created to share work in progress, a new project in the making, i.e. Long Distance Leadership Postcards, and reflect on progress with re-inventing Mondays. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
Why Michaela Community School embodies the worst aspects of English Education.
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Thanks Siobahn…It was a huge mistake and we told them at the time but the DfE and BCS refused to listen
“Edtech exhibitions are futurist discourse dissemination forums. The discourse typical of BETT is that schooling must be “smarter”, with technologies elevated as solutions to all contemporary problems of a “broken” system of institutionalized education.”
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“Unfortunately, in many ways, AI is quietly automating educational inequity, exacerbating the school-to-prison nexus, further reinforcing tracking and within-school segregation, and creating “synthetic” gaps in achievement and opportunity”
#AI will not save us from greedy billionaires
It will not prevent greed
It will not solve man's inhumanity to man
Only people can do that. We all have a part to play.
#justsaying
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“In this paper, we argue that there still is no sign of a revolution of AI in education, only in the media and corporate outlets. “
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“Generative AI tools can make certain written tasks quicker and easier, but it cannot replace the judgement and deep subject knowledge of a human expert.”
Taxonomy of Social Media Platforms for Learning in Higher Education Purvis. A. and Beckingham, S. (2024) A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review. (2024). Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 21(05). https://doi.org/10.53761/vvvccy83
Timeline of Social Media and Communication Platforms Purvis. A. and Beckingham, S. (2024) A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review. (2024). Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 21(05). https://doi.org/10.53761/vvvccy83
Following the publication of our paper 'A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review' in JUTLP, @dralison.bsky.social and I are very happy to share that two associated infographics are now available to download with a CC licence.
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“The weight of the available evidence suggests that the current wholesale adoption of unregulated AI applications in schools poses a grave danger to democratic civil society and to individual freedom and liberty.”
Hear, hear Bob!
Like all other learning technology innovation, #AI use must be grounded in established #FE pedagogy and introduced in collaboration with - or preferably led by - expert educator and learner voices.
#UKFE #AmplifyFE #EduSky #EdTech