AI in Education Toolkit for Racial Equity: How to mitigate racial bias in the design and development of your products · AI in Education Toolkit for Racial Equity
5 Common Ed Tech RFP Mistakes That Make It Less Effective -- THE Journal (via @unklar@mastodon.education)
Kiwi Educational Robot KaiBot Wins International Recognition On Its First Outing | Scoop News
Higher Education Futures: 8 scenarios, 8 tarot cards and 8 short stories | Digital Education (via @mseangallagher@fosstodon.org)
We present eight new speculative scenarios for the future of higher education teaching:
Extinction-era universities
AI academy
The universal university
Extreme unbundling
Justice-driven innovation
Return to the ivory tower
The university of ennui
Enhanced enhancementDoug Holton: "Here's a thread of different groups of #education…" - Mastodon
As more biometric data is collected in schools, parents need to ask these 10 questions
Imagine scanning your fingerprint just to go to the loo at #school 🧐
☝️ A high school in #Sydney implemented this to find #students vandalising toilets.
🏫 This shows how easily #biometric #technology can be introduced at #schools – should #parents be concerned?
Digital technologies for everyone: Factors contributing to female participation
Education report recommends more cybersecurity investment as risk grows | RNZ News
Supercharger Ventures EdTech accelerator applications now open
SuperCharger applications are open for the Spring 2023 cycle (started in late March) and deadline to apply is 10 December 2022. The goal is to accelerate your growth and help you expand internationally over the course of the program. They invest up to $270,000 per startup joining their accelerator program.
Schools must resist big EdTech – but it won’t be easy (via @margreta@mastodon.oeru.org)
"Schools are slowly becoming extremely reliant on a few large companies’ entire technological stacks in order to operate. In turn, these stacks are reshaping what schooling is and could be, and exercising unaccountable control over students, teachers, administrators and content providers alike"
“Pedagogy Before Technology” Is a Thought-Terminating Cliché – Little EdTech, Big Mouth (via @katiedigc@aus.social)
“Pedagogy before technology” comes from a good place, but it lacks nuance and it also lacks faith in our colleagues to be able to have complicated conversations. It’s not “pedagogy before technology.” It’s “technological considerations need to be made alongside pedagogical ones because ultimately the learner experience cannot extricate one from another,” but then I’ve never found myself accused of constructing my own thought-terminating clichés.
In New Hampshire, school technology directors collaborate to protect student data
Via @PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange
German govt rules that MS365 is incompatible with GDPR
After two years of negotiations with Microsoft, the joint committee of the German federal data protection authority and 17 state regulators (DSK) published a devastating statement that essentially says that organizations currently cannot use MS365 in a lawful way under the GDPR.
The Genome Project | EdTech Evidence Exchange
2022 Online Education Trends Report | BestColleges
BestColleges' eighth annual Online Education Trends Report continues to track trends through feedback provided by online students and school administrators captured through nationwide surveys. This report represents our sixth year of original data collection, with participation from 351 school administrators and 1,800 students. Student respondents included prospective online students, current online students (i.e., those enrolled in fully online programs), current remote learners (i.e., those enrolled in courses not offered in person due to COVID-19), and graduates of online programs. This year's findings are presented in four categories: the learning experience, marketing and recruitment, the continued impact of COVID-19, and student satisfaction.
Teaching staff and leaders want more investment in curriculum design | Jisc
Cyberbullying intervention – practical considerations for teachers
EPIT - Child data, information, and privacy
“The consequences for today’s children are extremely significant as they are being datafied from pre-birth”
Access to digital technology, the internet and multitude of online learning tools is something that our learners are growig up with. Yet, how much do our pre-schools and schools, staff, students, parents, whānau and communities know about the long-term impacts that digital access and online data collection have on the lives of rangatahi and tamariki.
We recently hosted an online panel of experts to discuss the issues facing learners within and outside of schools arising from the digital learning environment and data collection happening in the platforms, apps and sites used. Our panellists were:
Anjela Webster, Founder, Generation Online
Brent Carey, CEO, Netsafe
Dr. Caroline Keen, Founder, Sociodigital Research
Rick Shera, Partner, Lowndes Jordan Watch the discussion and get in touch to learn more.
Education Partnership & Innovation Trust | EPIT (NZ)
Creating equitable education outcomes for learners
Eric Curtis's EdTech links of the week
France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school • The Register
50 Reasons Why There Are No Māori in Your Science Department | Published in Journal of Global Indigeneity
Five thoughtful ways to approach artificial intelligence in schools | EduResearch Matters
‘I’m afraid’: critics of anti-cheating technology for students hit by lawsuits | US news | The Guardian
New technology meant to detect cheating by students taking tests at home could invade privacy, raise anxiety and be discriminatory
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2022 – Results of the 16th Annual Survey
As a result of the 16th Annual Tools for Learning survey, [the author has], this year, generated a list of 100 Top Tools for Learning. Why, since last year I produced a list of 300 tools? There are two main reasons for this: firstly, fewer people voted this year, but secondly, and more significantly, far fewer tools were nominated this year.
(1) Open Learning in the Fediverse - YouTube
As a new generation of digital technologies evolves we are awash in new terms and concepts: the metaverse, the fediverse, blockchain, web3, acitivitypub, and more. This presentation untangles these concepts and presents them from the perspective of their impact on open learning. It describes and demonstrates with working examples that anyone case use the potential and the pitfalls of a distributed and decentralized open online learning environment. Participants will see clearly the relation between such diverse concepts as digital badges and credentials, cloud-based services, open data management, activity records and tools interoperability, and persistent digital objects such as digital IDs and non-fungible tokens.
Open EdTech Launch Paper 2022 v 0.9 - Google Docs
This paper presents an initial vision for a complete, global system of education technology that can support quality education (for humans and AI) in every sector[, and is open source].
EdTech Means Nothing – Assorted Stuff
EdTech is too all-encompassing as a term, there are many nuances which we should take into account.
Ethical Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data in Teaching and Learning for Educators
40 page PDF
Why it’s wrong to blame online learning for causing mental health issues during COVID-19 — University Affairs
Postsecondary student mental health is in crisis: Research shows students’ mental health was adversely affected in the pandemic, and this falls on the heels of pre-existing concerns that campuses were struggling to keep up with demands for mental health services.
Over the last two-and-a-half years, many people — including educators, academics, education administrators, politicians and political commentators have argued that online learning is detrimental to student or family mental health or well-being.
Via @downes@mastodon.social