Tessa Consoli
@tessacon.bsky.social
Studying digital transformation in/of Swiss upper secondary schools, digital citizenship education and the digital divide. | PhD student at the University of Zurich | former upper secondary school language teacher | she/they | obsessed with mycology 👩🏼💻🍄🌳📚🐈⬛🌈
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Tessa Consoli
@tessacon.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Which education approach to #GenAI do students experience in upper secondary schools?
We explored this through the lens of #MediaLiteracy education.
Key finding: Critical-reflective approaches foster both AI confidence & responsibility.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #AIed #DigitalAgency #EdTech
We explored this through the lens of #MediaLiteracy education.
Key finding: Critical-reflective approaches foster both AI confidence & responsibility.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #AIed #DigitalAgency #EdTech
Reposted by Tessa Consoli
@civicsoftech.bsky.social is starting to host events at different times to invite people in time zones outside of the US into the conversation! Our next Tech Talk will be on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 12pm ET. Come join us to chat tech, education, current events, and more! Register here!
Events — Civics of Technology
Learn more, RSVP, or submit a proposal for the 1st annual virtual conference to take place from 11am-3pm EST on both August 4th and 5th, 2022.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
@civicsoftech.bsky.social is starting to host events at different times to invite people in time zones outside of the US into the conversation! Our next Tech Talk will be on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 12pm ET. Come join us to chat tech, education, current events, and more! Register here!
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🗯️ As we mark the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, we’re sharing Stories of Online Harassment—a poster that reveals how AI amplifies everything from cyberstalking to hate speech and catfishing. #NoToHate
👉 Want to host an exhibition? Learn more: tacticaltech.org/supercharged...
👉 Want to host an exhibition? Learn more: tacticaltech.org/supercharged...
June 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🗯️ As we mark the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, we’re sharing Stories of Online Harassment—a poster that reveals how AI amplifies everything from cyberstalking to hate speech and catfishing. #NoToHate
👉 Want to host an exhibition? Learn more: tacticaltech.org/supercharged...
👉 Want to host an exhibition? Learn more: tacticaltech.org/supercharged...
How can we empower teachers’ and students’ agency to co-create the postdigital classroom based on their own visions and needs 🪄🦄🌈? In this paper, we propose the method of future workshops. It was such a pleasure to contribute to this!
doi.org/10.1007/s424...
#PostdigitalEducation #EducationalFutures
doi.org/10.1007/s424...
#PostdigitalEducation #EducationalFutures
June 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
How can we empower teachers’ and students’ agency to co-create the postdigital classroom based on their own visions and needs 🪄🦄🌈? In this paper, we propose the method of future workshops. It was such a pleasure to contribute to this!
doi.org/10.1007/s424...
#PostdigitalEducation #EducationalFutures
doi.org/10.1007/s424...
#PostdigitalEducation #EducationalFutures
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In today's post, Jordan Allison addresses broader currents in research on educational computing - and establishes a venue for sharing scholarship that takes a more critical stance:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reorien...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reorien...
Reorienting EdTech: Reclaiming the Civic Purpose of Educational Computing — Civics of Technology
Dr. Allison, Editor of JECR, invites scholarship that explore how ed tech either perpetuate or dismantle global inequities.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
June 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In today's post, Jordan Allison addresses broader currents in research on educational computing - and establishes a venue for sharing scholarship that takes a more critical stance:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reorien...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reorien...
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Have you seen all the promises that AI will make education more democratic? Have you always been a little sceptical of them but couldn’t say exactly why? Try my new paper in which I discuss the mismatch between the goals and values of democratic education, and contemporary educational AI tools.
Why AI will not Democratize Education: a Critical Pragmatist Perspective - Philosophy & Technology
This paper builds on Dewey’s philosophy of education to argue that AI, at least in its current commercial form, is likely to have a negative impact on democratic education. AI and other digital techno...
link.springer.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Have you seen all the promises that AI will make education more democratic? Have you always been a little sceptical of them but couldn’t say exactly why? Try my new paper in which I discuss the mismatch between the goals and values of democratic education, and contemporary educational AI tools.
Which education approach to #GenAI do students experience in upper secondary schools?
We explored this through the lens of #MediaLiteracy education.
Key finding: Critical-reflective approaches foster both AI confidence & responsibility.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #AIed #DigitalAgency #EdTech
We explored this through the lens of #MediaLiteracy education.
Key finding: Critical-reflective approaches foster both AI confidence & responsibility.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #AIed #DigitalAgency #EdTech
June 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Which education approach to #GenAI do students experience in upper secondary schools?
We explored this through the lens of #MediaLiteracy education.
Key finding: Critical-reflective approaches foster both AI confidence & responsibility.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #AIed #DigitalAgency #EdTech
We explored this through the lens of #MediaLiteracy education.
Key finding: Critical-reflective approaches foster both AI confidence & responsibility.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #AIed #DigitalAgency #EdTech
Reposted by Tessa Consoli
One important thing these testimonies reinforce is the huge gap between how AI could be used and how it is likely to be used. The idea that "embracing" AI would solve all problems is just silly. Choosing to teach with AI vs. dealing with how it is likely to be used are very different challenges.
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
One important thing these testimonies reinforce is the huge gap between how AI could be used and how it is likely to be used. The idea that "embracing" AI would solve all problems is just silly. Choosing to teach with AI vs. dealing with how it is likely to be used are very different challenges.
Bridging the gap between #technologyintegration in education & sustainability! This study highlights the need to consider sustainability aspects when integrating technologies like #LLMs (the example of smartboards does not fully convince me). 🌍💻 #EdTech #Sustainability
Bridging the Gap: A Debate on Sustainability Aspects of Digital Media in Education
While there has been some progress in addressing ethical questions within current digital media integration frameworks, such as the TPACK model, insufficient research exists regarding the meaningful i...
www.mdpi.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Bridging the gap between #technologyintegration in education & sustainability! This study highlights the need to consider sustainability aspects when integrating technologies like #LLMs (the example of smartboards does not fully convince me). 🌍💻 #EdTech #Sustainability
Current #digitalcitizenship education often focuses narrowly on tech skills & safety, missing the bigger picture of citizenship. This study from Germany proposes a comprehensive framework (Infra-DC) to equip people not just to thrive but to critically shape digital & democratic societies. 📢🧑🏾💻🌍
View of Personal Responsibility and Beyond
ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de
February 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Current #digitalcitizenship education often focuses narrowly on tech skills & safety, missing the bigger picture of citizenship. This study from Germany proposes a comprehensive framework (Infra-DC) to equip people not just to thrive but to critically shape digital & democratic societies. 📢🧑🏾💻🌍
Reposted by Tessa Consoli
🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
February 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
Here we developed a scale to let students assess whether their teachers' use of digital technologies serves four dimensions of #instructionalquality in everyday school settings. We then examined how these dimensions & the frequency of tech use predicted students' #digitalcompetences and engagement.
Quality of technology integration matters: Positive associations with students’ behavioral engagement and digital competencies for learning - Education and Information Technologies
Despite extensive research on technology's potential to enhance teaching, large-scale studies often report mixed or negative impacts of technology use at school on student learning achievements. This ...
link.springer.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Here we developed a scale to let students assess whether their teachers' use of digital technologies serves four dimensions of #instructionalquality in everyday school settings. We then examined how these dimensions & the frequency of tech use predicted students' #digitalcompetences and engagement.
Reposted by Tessa Consoli
If, like me, you're often asked about alternatives to Big Tech's AI, then this report on "AI technology that’s informed and guided by the principles of decoloniality, feminism, antiracist, and post-capitalist AI systems" from @schock.cc and co-authors may be of interest to you:
AI Commons - One Project
What if we could redefine AI? What if we could shift its production from a capitalist model to a more disruptive, inclusive, and decentralized one?
oneproject.org
February 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If, like me, you're often asked about alternatives to Big Tech's AI, then this report on "AI technology that’s informed and guided by the principles of decoloniality, feminism, antiracist, and post-capitalist AI systems" from @schock.cc and co-authors may be of interest to you:
This paper critiques #CognitiveLoadTheory and argues that the learning brain is predictive, embodied, neuronally plastic, non-linear, dynamically self-organising, and inherently emotional. The critique of the critique below is also very interesting. 🧠🍥🤯
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This paper critiques #CognitiveLoadTheory and argues that the learning brain is predictive, embodied, neuronally plastic, non-linear, dynamically self-organising, and inherently emotional. The critique of the critique below is also very interesting. 🧠🍥🤯
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This study highlights how reliance on #generativeAI tools creates a feedback loop where increased cognitive offloading exacerbates the decline in #criticalthinking. 🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♀️
AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relations...
www.mdpi.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This study highlights how reliance on #generativeAI tools creates a feedback loop where increased cognitive offloading exacerbates the decline in #criticalthinking. 🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♀️
Maybe now some of those who used to say "I have nothing to hide" understand why we need digital self-defense education & workshops. 🥷🏽🔐 #surveillance #digitalselfdefense
once again, please read the @wired.com guide on protecting yourself from government surveillance…
February 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Maybe now some of those who used to say "I have nothing to hide" understand why we need digital self-defense education & workshops. 🥷🏽🔐 #surveillance #digitalselfdefense
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Get geared up for our February book club: The Propagandists' Playbook by @ftripodi.bsky.social!
In today's blog post, @philnichols.bsky.social and @alliethrall.bsky.social put the book into conversation with ongoing debates about media literacy.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/whose-m...
In today's blog post, @philnichols.bsky.social and @alliethrall.bsky.social put the book into conversation with ongoing debates about media literacy.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/whose-m...
Whose Media Literacy? — Civics of Technology
If you want to strike up a conversation with someone, you could do worse than asking them about their thoughts on “media literacy.”
www.civicsoftechnology.org
February 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Get geared up for our February book club: The Propagandists' Playbook by @ftripodi.bsky.social!
In today's blog post, @philnichols.bsky.social and @alliethrall.bsky.social put the book into conversation with ongoing debates about media literacy.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/whose-m...
In today's blog post, @philnichols.bsky.social and @alliethrall.bsky.social put the book into conversation with ongoing debates about media literacy.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/whose-m...
A few days on @bsky.app and after uploading my cover image and liking some #mushroom photos, the #algorithms have already unraveled my obsession with #mycology. I have an entire Instagram profile (@spitzmorchel) dedicated to this obsession, which I am considering moving to another platform. 🌳🌲🍄
February 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A few days on @bsky.app and after uploading my cover image and liking some #mushroom photos, the #algorithms have already unraveled my obsession with #mycology. I have an entire Instagram profile (@spitzmorchel) dedicated to this obsession, which I am considering moving to another platform. 🌳🌲🍄
We asked 2'247 teachers whether they covered topics such as the ethical issues of automation or #medialiteracy in class. We then looked at what factors predicted these actions. We found that teachers' belief in their responsibility and competence are crucial. High-tech classrooms aren't the key. ✨🧠👩🏼🏫
Why do some teachers teach media literacy while others do not? Exploring predictors along the “will, skill, tool, pedagogy” model
The present study aims to identify factors that predict whether teachers engage in teaching about digital technologies (media education), which is an …
www.sciencedirect.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We asked 2'247 teachers whether they covered topics such as the ethical issues of automation or #medialiteracy in class. We then looked at what factors predicted these actions. We found that teachers' belief in their responsibility and competence are crucial. High-tech classrooms aren't the key. ✨🧠👩🏼🏫
Why the radical right loves #generativeAI and how Midjourney & Co. are shaping the aesthetics of contemporary #digitalfascism. "Technology is not a politically neutral tool. As a nostalgia machine and stereotype amplifier, it lends itself to the creation of right-wing world views."
Roland Meyer heute über die radikale Rechte und KI: „Die Technologie ist kein politisch neutrales Werkzeug. Als Nostalgiemaschine und Klischeeverstärker drängt sie sich für den Entwurf rechter Weltbilder geradezu auf.“ geschichtedergegenwart.ch/echte-emotio...
Echte Emotionen. Generative KI und rechte Weltbilder
Die radikale Rechte liebt generative KI. Trump wie Musk teilen massenhaft KI-generierte Bilder auf ihren Plattformen, und auch die AfD hat schon lange den Nutzen von Midjourney & Co. für ihren Wahlkam...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
February 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Why the radical right loves #generativeAI and how Midjourney & Co. are shaping the aesthetics of contemporary #digitalfascism. "Technology is not a politically neutral tool. As a nostalgia machine and stereotype amplifier, it lends itself to the creation of right-wing world views."
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New article from me, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, and @anterobot.bsky.social on the evolution of "Luddism" as a social identification and its potentials (and limits) for organizing resistance to automation in education today.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paywalled, but reach out for a PDF!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paywalled, but reach out for a PDF!
January 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New article from me, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, and @anterobot.bsky.social on the evolution of "Luddism" as a social identification and its potentials (and limits) for organizing resistance to automation in education today.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paywalled, but reach out for a PDF!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paywalled, but reach out for a PDF!
Publication alert ✨ What kind of #pedagogy do teachers use when using #digitaltechnologies? A more #constructivist one, where students are encouraged to collaborate and build their own knowledge, a "drill & practice" one, or a more traditional frontal teaching one? Read our paper to find out more.
“Digital constructivists, activators or presenters? Different profiles of technology integration among swiss upper secondary school teachers”
This study explores patterns of technology integration in upper secondary school learning activities. Data were collected via an online survey in Swit…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Publication alert ✨ What kind of #pedagogy do teachers use when using #digitaltechnologies? A more #constructivist one, where students are encouraged to collaborate and build their own knowledge, a "drill & practice" one, or a more traditional frontal teaching one? Read our paper to find out more.
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Ich bin nicht neutral! Warum der Mythos Neutralität ein politisches Kampfmittel der neuen Rechten ist und nicht nur Bildungsarbeit, sondern letztlich die Demokratie gefährdet 👇🏽
youtu.be/Fjq99uT9LMI?...
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Nicht neutral!
YouTube video by Steve Kenner
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January 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ich bin nicht neutral! Warum der Mythos Neutralität ein politisches Kampfmittel der neuen Rechten ist und nicht nur Bildungsarbeit, sondern letztlich die Demokratie gefährdet 👇🏽
youtu.be/Fjq99uT9LMI?...
youtu.be/Fjq99uT9LMI?...
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