it was so great talking to doc students today (I was a guest in the doc sem class). the theme was education futures, of course, and we watched #tresdancing together and discussed the layers of surveillance and power and agency and how it shapes our experiences of ourselves and our world.

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Tonight in Critical Perspectives of Tech in Edu, we are watching #tresdancing from Screening Surveillance www.screeningsurveillance.com by @savasavasava.blackskycomra.de & team. Check out about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/cr... for a convo w/sava, @timmaughan.bsky.social & L. Marshall (scroll down)!

An excerpt from the article, "Silicon Valley’s Drive to Get AI Into America’s Schools Is Working" by Vauhini Vara. The excerpt reads, "As long as a student did well enough on the school’s on-screen knowledge assessments, Price said, she applauded the shortcut. Showing through quizzes that they’d mastered concepts earned the students XP—experience points, like in video games—which they could convert into dollars for investment into personal projects called 'masterpieces.'"

This detail from the recent Bloomberg Businessweek article on AI in education about how Alpha School rewards students with XP (experience points) is literally part of the plot in @savasavasava.bsky.social short film #tresdancing and its dramatization of surveillance and ed-tech.

#tresdancing | The Surveillance Studies Centre In #tresdancing, a young person has little choice but to use invasive new educational technology as they are forced to ramp up their engagement with a new, experimental technology in order to make up ...

She was my first ask! ❤️ @savasavasava.bsky.social We did a viewing of #tresdancing too. It is such a great convo starter for thinking about tech, education, and surveillance: www.surveillance-studies.ca/projects/scr...

On Monday, I begin teaching a six-week program for high school students on AI in education, surveillance, and social media. Lots of ways to start our discussion, but the one I decided to go with is @savasavasava.bsky.social’s excellent short film #tresdancing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUiv...

I currently have students making speculative stories of edtech futures - we watched your #tresdancing film for inspiration, which generated very good discussion - but I need to make a metalcore submission possible next year!

#tresdancing | The Surveillance Studies Centre In #tresdancing, a young person has little choice but to use invasive new educational technology as they are forced to ramp up their engagement with a new, experimental technology in order to make up ...

1) Watch and discuss @savasavasava.bsky.social's film #tresdancing www.surveillance-studies.ca/projects/scr...