Based on Bryant, P., Lanclos, D., & Phipps, L., “Beyond the Borderlands: Reimagining the Competencies of Postdigital Educational Leadership in an Era of Coalescing Geopolitical Crisis.” I, Peter Bryant, and Donna Lanclos had been at a conference for three days. We had agreed to write a chapter on Postdigital Leadership and Crises. So on a…
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Toxicity and Responsibility: Is it time to reassess institutional engagement with Twitter (X)
About a year ago I left Twitter (or X), a decision based on concerns about the platform’s increasingly toxic environment. The decision was right, and has been borne out by the recent far right riots in the UK, where misinformation, outright lies, and the way in which the platform as allowed racists and nazis to…
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Push the Narrative Back!
“Why won’t you let us innovate?!” “You are holding us back!” “If we have to do the things you say, we won’t be able to change anything!” “You’re wrong, we’re right, and we are going to ignore all your concerns!” “Disabled Students will just have to make do with the content they can access!” It’s…
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That thing you just said about your AI? Yeah, I have questions.
I / we have written about AI. We have asked about disclaimers and acknowledgements in response to people saying things like “We might feel that AI is most usefully considered as another tool: in itself ethically neutral…” (it is not ethically neutral) (pretty sure that ethical neutrality is not a real thing!). We have written…
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Do I need a new license? Creative Commons, Cambridge Analytica and Ethics
With thanks to Dan Lynds for for suggestions and edits Earlier this year Robin de Rosa and Rajiv Jhangiani launched the Open Pedagogy Notebook, a resource for any educators to both use open resources and learn more about the underpinning idea of open. I first met Robin in August 2016 at DigPedPEI, we had lots…
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Virtual fieldwork and equivalent experiences
I thought I’d left this debate behind a while ago, but recently I noticed that “reasonable adjustments” and “equivalent experiences” have appeared in learning technology discussions. I should say that I think learning technologists have the best of intentions, but I also think that there are approaches that will lead to two tier provision, either…
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