www.europe-infos.fr/english/8396...
Official estimates might actually be a little bit lower -- but close to 800k people, both current minors and now those who have left school, is a huge number
the risks of data breaches like this become much higher.
And EduConnect is a government service, in a country that is at least politically interested in digital sovereignty. So while it seems desirable to centralise digital services out of a concern for efficiency/equity, this is what's waiting.
French student data breach: The data of 3.5 million students implicated, including report cards and driving safety reports.
This so clearly illustrates the risks of centralisation. We might want the state to take on certain roles, especially administrative, but as data gets more centralised...
In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways
We are in such desperate need of alternatives. Alternative leaders, alternative values, alternative tech siblings (?)
On this day in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson authorized overt racial segregation in federal employment. Federal endorsement of Jim Crow policies was a significant blow to Black civil rights.
And to think: the ends could be known. Working towards social causes. Reduce suffering. If only we could have a bit of imagination, if only we could better mobilize care.
Likely. They don't seem to be receiving the best tech advice. A national embarrassment. With increasing backlash -- or at the very least ambivalence -- to tech in schools generally, and Big Tech specifically, how is this a tenable position? Beggars belief.
But also you’re very right, beyond bad taste, it’s ableism. Aren’t nike supposedly about inclusion in sports? 🧐
While also railing against cyclists
Parkrun volunteers are great in general!
from harnessing education with AI to investing in learning (outcomes).
no matter how you feel about them, prediction markets are growing more widespread, and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate these powerful gambling tools into their classrooms
students will care deeply about issues at both global and local scales. works for any subject area, any grade, any school, any student background.
e.g. working on a homelessness project, will homelessness in their community increase or decrease in response to current events, their project work?
and now: combined with inquiry-based learning. not only are kids engaged in solving real-world problems, they now have a real stake in the project outcomes. what better way to encourage learning that students actually invest in.
an essential tool to get kids excited about (and placing bets on) current events. there could be class-level and school-level betting pools set up. the pedagogical possibilities are endless. we're about to see student engagement levels go through the roof.
For those who don’t know, the OU brought teachers like Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall, Margie Wetherell, Grahame Thompson, John Allen, Tony Bennett to design and write degree courses to anyone, regardless of prior qualifications often FOR FREE and until 2010ish for around £3-500 p.a.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
"In the name of the University's final AI principle - responsiveness to the stakeholders involved (i.e. all of us ...) - we ask that the University of Edinburgh not renew its contract with OpenAI and stop using OpenAI as a supplier."
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"While jailed and unable to pay bills, Lipps lost her home, her car and her dog, she said"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
If I lived in NYC I’d be at every screening.
Pawlitics: helping us all live as well as possible.
Reading Mariame Kaba's newsletter and following her to Mary Oliver's "Messenger" and these lines:
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people
OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths
apnews.com/article/isra...
if those scripts involve edtech or not, it’s beyond the point
We really need to think better about how tech can supplement the provision of education at local levels. Tech is part of a larger picture of what education is; it cannot replace it. And this goes for both proponents and critics of edtech. We risk missing the educational forest for the edtech trees.
certainly are the result of, and reinforce, those forces. Here I am thinking about the types of pedagogy that individual screens and a focus on 'cognitive' measures make possible. There is a (anti-tech) solutionist bent here: remove the tech, problems solved. This may end up being counterproductive
A narrow focus on some set of 'cognitive' measures was the justification for a lot of this tech. There is a lot here that responds to greater cultural trends, but I would be wary of placing the blame on screens. There are deep structural forces that have led us to where we are today, and schools...
They should never find rest.
