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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6d

Cool parcel in the post of an "Ed-tech Agitprop Pack" unexpectedly sent by @neilselwyn.bsky.social

"The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.

Photo of a tote bag with printed text "Distrusting educational technology" and stickers reading "Get AI out of education" and "Ed-tech is full of bullshit"

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · 21d

New open access article critically examining ClassDojo, published in @lmt-journal.bsky.social. In it we collate data from across 3 studies to scrutinise ClassDojo & argue it promotes a relationship of obedience between student & teacher @digitalchildau.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication

ClassDojo is a popular educational technology platform used by teachers to manage students’ behaviour and communicate with parents. This platform, though, along with other similar digital classroom...

www.tandfonline.com

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 21d

A parent at our kids' preschool asked if I knew of any studies about ClassDojo because it's used in her older kid's classroom and I said yes, yes I do, and then I emailed her all of @jamiemanolev.bsky.social and co-authors' excellent work analyzing the platform, including two open articles. First:

Reshaping school discipline with metrics: an examination of teachers’ disciplinary practices with ClassDojo

Education is increasingly infiltrated by technology and datafication. This techno-data amplification is entangled with neoliberalism and the emphasis on calculation and measurement it brings, often...

doi.org

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jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for the boost & kind words Charles. It's pleasing to know some are finding value in this research. Coincidently, we've just published a new open access collaborative piece which further examines ClassDojo's use in schools and with families - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication

ClassDojo is a popular educational technology platform used by teachers to manage students’ behaviour and communicate with parents. This platform, though, along with other similar digital classroom...

www.tandfonline.com

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 28d

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HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥

Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 29d

A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...

Are We Losing Our Minds?

A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia

www.the-geyser.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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European Educational Research Association - EERA @ecer-eera.bsky.social · Sep 1

New on our blog: A preview of @benpatrickwill.bsky.socialECER 2025 Keynote: Educational genomics is a fast-growing area of research, but should policy or practice be based on an individual's DNA? #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/should-genetics-play-a-role-in-education/

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 1

I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.

www.thecut.com/article/broo...

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Screencap from linked article, reading:
“These tools are designed to look like objective, all-knowing systems, and I think it’s important to get kids used to asking, ‘Who are the people who built this? Who said and wrote the original things that became the training data? Whose artwork was stolen by these companies to produce the training sets?’” said Bender.
For kids too young to connect with those questions, Bender suggests parents focus on the environmental impact. “Every time you use a chatbot, you’re helping to build the case for the company to develop the next model and build the next data center. Data centers have to be cooled with massive amounts of clean water, and clean water usually means drinking water.” Whose drinking water will be diverted?

That said, I wanted to provide a couple of corrections. When I problematize the term "AI", the goal is to get people to stop using it. "Many tools that use AI" doesn't mean anything. "Many tools that are sold as 'AI'" is okay. But more importantly: those study-aid podcasts systems are TRASH and nothing like automatic transcription tools.

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · Aug 31

Do you have a project (research, curriculum, advocacy) or want to distribute a call for proposals/chapters/etc?

On our contact page is a Blog Post Proposal form - we welcome contributions from our community!

www.civicsoftechnology.org/contact

Contact Us — Civics of Technology

Please contact us if you have questions, would like to be a contributor, or just want to chat. We also offer professional development workshops for K-12, college, or teacher education classes.

www.civicsoftechnology.org

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Naomi Barnes @drnomyn.bsky.social · Aug 18

To claim that one skill is clever and another mundane, is to engage in the silencing of the intelligences that GenAI companies extract in the first place. GenAI is, in essence intelligence extraction, not intelligence learning.

Frack off AI?

This is the first blog that sociologically considers the phenomenon of AI in education in response to The Eye of the Master: A social history of artificial intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli. What does it mean to consider AI and education through a lens of labour? AI has received a considerable amount of critique from the incredibly healthy field of critical edtech.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jul 24

OpenAI is now in your LMS and Trump's mandating "non-ideological" AI literacy. Here's an updated list of critical research on AI in education to make sense of it all.

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Feb 9

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · Jul 15

Cheers Barry!

jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · Jul 15

Delighted to share our (open access) pub examining 'How policies of school exclusion frame practice'. We analyse legislation guiding exclusions in 4 Aus states, & argue their use prioritises school over student needs. @australianare.bsky.social #schoolexclusions link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · Jun 24

And now consider the implications of using this tool in/for education

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jun 24

You can think of it like an anti-tool, one that actually destroys your ability to solve a problem. That actively makes it impossible to learn from solving problems how to solve new problems.

jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · Jun 20

Big congrats to Mathias Decuypere, Sigrid Hartong, Jeremy Knox & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social for putting on the inaugural ECCES which brought together many in the critical edtech research community. Capped off with an inspiring keynote from @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · Jun 9

Critical studies of ed-tech are becoming increasingly popular ... but how can they be a useful force for change? New report outlines 8 main areas that the CSET community needs to get discussing! 🧵

bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...

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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · May 14

"No easy answers ... what (social) science says about digitisation and schools" ... short chapter written for teachers in response to the Swedish government's demands to 'follow the science' regarding digital technologies in the classroom!
Download link for PDF: bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/...

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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · May 13

I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7

Introduction to special section: the political life of education online | Naomi Barnes

Just published online! A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · May 13

Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices by @benedetta.bsky.social in Digital Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society

Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...

link.springer.com

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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · May 12

On an intellectual diet of weaponry, and on resisting the computational machinery of war.

*For Isaiah*

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-...

Swords into Plowshares

Yesterday marked my fifth Mother's Day without him. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of his passing. My beautiful boy, for whom I still grieve and will grieve every day forever; and despite his death...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

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jamiemanolev.bsky.social @jamiemanolev.bsky.social · May 11

I cringe every time I hear this line & similar rolled out.

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