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@risu.bsky.social

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edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · Oct 18

I like to re-share this picture of me presenting at Google to an audience including the FBI, because yes, I will fight for digital rights and better privacy and security by design. And I will have great hair while I rip apart tech bro work and egos. Especially edtech egos.

Me standing in front of slide that reads we need careful, considered thoughtful privacy design so that life can be led recklessly,fuy, fearlessly

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2h

If the ai in education boosters would even just once mention risks and harms , we might get somewhere

But all we get is “governance checklists” that aren’t helpful because vendors lie and consultants paid by schools to evaluate edtech lack the knowledge to do so.

We need product safety by design

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10h

I understand and appreciate efforts to work with AI in teaching and research for well-specified reasons and purposes but only so long as it's acknowledged AI in education is also and mainly a public problem for the sector that still needs addressing
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/a...

AI in education is a public problem

Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash Over the past year or so, a narrative that AI will inevitably transform education has become widespread. You can find it in the pronouncements of investors, tech ind…

codeactsineducation.wordpress.com

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2h

And ai in education is part of the wider edtech issue that has violated digital rights of CHILDREN- but we are somehow more concerned with screens and socials and age verification than tech used in schools and data that is shared. Because we have been trained to not see data as valuable.

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11h

AI in education centres entrepreneurs as experts in teaching and learning

AI in education is based mostly on technical potential not educational needs

AI in education locks learning into models that afford summarization instead of archives of knowledge

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 14h

This is the life I will lead in retirement

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 15h

Omg who is the pet sitter. I would die for this job. How did I miss this ad lol

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 19h

You also know what your child is doing if they are sitting at the table reading a book

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 19h

Emailed the parents of my 11 year old students, via the app we have to use, to encourage them to please buy books for their children to revise from.
Because I have had parents ask me if the school has its own app for learning. Or if I recommend Duolingo. Chat, the best tool will always be a book

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21h

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 19h

Schools:one of the top targets for online criminals and yet we bluster about if schools should take biometric data or use cctv in bathrooms. As if there is any possible justification for any of it even in a “secure” system- and no one saying “oh it is a grey area” works in the same conditions

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

I can only imagine the horrors you see in that mailing list

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 23h

THIS!!

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

It isn’t normal for fingerprints to be taken for payment, for cctv in toilets or for detentions for forgetting a pen. And for all of this data to be shared with hundreds of third parties which is probably already impacting employment and finance opportunities

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

One of my aims this next school year is to awaken communities to the risk edtech poses to their digital rights. And how it is being used to render schools like prisons

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Oh welcome to my world and the world of fighting edtech and teachers institutionalised to it

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Hahah omg yes. I should do a search

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

I want you to enjoy that a student this week changed into a fruit costume, we won’t say which one, names changed to protect the innocent etc, ran amok, changed back and NO ONE KNOWS WHO IT WAS because they need to check all the cctv. I have to say, you couldn’t make U.K. school life up.Fruit anarchy

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Right! I am THAT parent always. Why even send a message like this? Who sits and writes that and puts it into an app and then sends it out. Like pls. Check yourself bc you are wrecking kids

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

Oh indeed. I’ve worked for companies that do this and more. And the employees often don’t know

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

Listen, I have a few hours a week free and can speak fluent French. I could sub in for them until Christmas

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

Edtech is canceral (prison) tech example 56489.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 2d

@risu.bsky.social 😆😆😆 but also WTAF

A screenshot from Reddit showing an email from an automated tracking system informing a British parent that their child left lessons 3 times last week to go to the bathroom, and subtly hinting that that is unacceptable.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

UN convention on rights of the child says what

Also : why can we go to the bathroom at will as adults but you can’t at school?

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to talk on this my email is risuandinu at gmail dot com

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t seen your work, but I think across teaching and early career we need to be focussing on tech governance and digital rights of the child. And that a teacher cannot judge a t&c or an app, that’s why corporate have teams of GRC. And no edtech is safe to use in corporate environments.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

Recent success in schools :when asked if I use Gen ai I just reply “no I am not a slopper”

When I explain that term it makes people REALLY uncomfortable that there could be a derogatory term for something presented as cool. No one wants to be a slopper

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like it could be your retirement gig.
I can see you at bah mitzvah and weddings and quincenera. You could make a fortune .

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

Also the “early years” stuff is all elitist and eugenics- and this is no different. Writing kids off if they have adverse experiences while her own family ain’t exactly doing great. Whose is? Perhaps less jumping on right wing screen free bandwagons would do the royals some good. Perhaps go offline