Eamon Costello

dair_institute - Twitch Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

“Mainlining AI straight into their veins,” they say?

@ginasue.bsky.social will join
@alexhanna.bsky.social & me on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to take apart the UK government's latest AI fiasco:

Monday, Jan 20, noon Pacific
www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopes

"The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school"

"With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education"

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Call for panels open for 4th International Conference of the journal Scuola Democratica. Great place for dialogue for anyone interested in democracy and education: www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-pan...

Wonderful event today at @dcuioe.bsky.social with @eam0.bsky.social, Manuel Fernández López, and their guests. I learned so much about Futures Thinking and its value. Well done to all involved.

Column | Teachers got mad about a cheat button in Chrome. Now Google’s pausing it. Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy.

Google backtracked after I tipped the Washington Post to how they were pushing AI functionality during exams. wapo.st/47OPRzL

With invited speakers including @michalwieczorek.bsky.social

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking This expert exchange invites you to be part of a dialogue that explores the role of Futures Thinking in education and engage in a reclamation of socio-technical imaginaries of what our world and our society could be, that are rooted in democracy, sustainability, ethics, relational pedagogies, mutuality, hope and beauty. You are called to give up stinking thinking and arrive in the beauty of the present direct from the future with expert researchers pursuing a diversity of inquiries in the field of educational futures that explore: Generative AI, anticipatory ethics and speculative design with students and teacher educators What is known about the current knowledge and competencies of teacher educators in Ireland, North and South, on Futures Thinking How Futures Workshoping can be used as a participatory methodology to support community democratic dialogue Featured speakers: Dr Valeria Prias & Dr Stefania Bocconi, National Research Council of Italy Dr Manuel Fernandez Lopez, DCU IoE, PI of SCoTENS FuturesNow project Dr Michal Wieczorek Ad Astra Fellow, Univeristy College Dublin Aisling Silke, DCU IoE, PI of Erasmus+ Enhance Project

Authoritarian EdTech Commentary on Authoritarian EdTech by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

Authoritarian EdTech

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking This expert exchange invites you to be part of a dialogue that explores the role of Futures Thinking in education and engage in a reclamation of socio-technical imaginaries of what our world and our society could be, that are rooted in democracy, sustainability, ethics, relational pedagogies, mutuality, hope and beauty. You are called to give up stinking thinking and arrive in the beauty of the present direct from the future with expert researchers pursuing a diversity of inquiries in the field of educational futures that explore: Generative AI, anticipatory ethics and speculative design with students and teacher educators What is known about the current knowledge and competencies of teacher educators in Ireland, North and South, on Futures Thinking How Futures Workshoping can be used as a participatory methodology to support community democratic dialogue Featured speakers: Dr Valeria Prias & Dr Stefania Bocconi, National Research Council of Italy Dr Manuel Fernandez Lopez, DCU IoE, PI of SCoTENS FuturesNow project Dr Michal Wieczorek Ad Astra Fellow, Univeristy College Dublin Aisling Silke, DCU IoE, PI of Erasmus+ Enhance Project

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking

Sept 26th @dcuioe.bsky.social

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With invited speakers including @michalwieczorek.bsky.social

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking This expert exchange invites you to be part of a dialogue that explores the role of Futures Thinking in education and engage in a reclamation of socio-technical imaginaries of what our world and our society could be, that are rooted in democracy, sustainability, ethics, relational pedagogies, mutuality, hope and beauty. You are called to give up stinking thinking and arrive in the beauty of the present direct from the future with expert researchers pursuing a diversity of inquiries in the field of educational futures that explore: Generative AI, anticipatory ethics and speculative design with students and teacher educators What is known about the current knowledge and competencies of teacher educators in Ireland, North and South, on Futures Thinking How Futures Workshoping can be used as a participatory methodology to support community democratic dialogue Featured speakers: Dr Valeria Prias & Dr Stefania Bocconi, National Research Council of Italy Dr Manuel Fernandez Lopez, DCU IoE, PI of SCoTENS FuturesNow project Dr Michal Wieczorek Ad Astra Fellow, Univeristy College Dublin Aisling Silke, DCU IoE, PI of Erasmus+ Enhance Project

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking This expert exchange invites you to be part of a dialogue that explores the role of Futures Thinking in education and engage in a reclamation of socio-technical imaginaries of what our world and our society could be, that are rooted in democracy, sustainability, ethics, relational pedagogies, mutuality, hope and beauty. You are called to give up stinking thinking and arrive in the beauty of the present direct from the future with expert researchers pursuing a diversity of inquiries in the field of educational futures that explore: Generative AI, anticipatory ethics and speculative design with students and teacher educators What is known about the current knowledge and competencies of teacher educators in Ireland, North and South, on Futures Thinking How Futures Workshoping can be used as a participatory methodology to support community democratic dialogue Featured speakers: Dr Valeria Prias & Dr Stefania Bocconi, National Research Council of Italy Dr Manuel Fernandez Lopez, DCU IoE, PI of SCoTENS FuturesNow project Dr Michal Wieczorek Ad Astra Fellow, Univeristy College Dublin Aisling Silke, DCU IoE, PI of Erasmus+ Enhance Project

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking

Sept 26th @dcuioe.bsky.social

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues Guided by Brey’s Anticipatory Technology Ethics, we examined AI-based research mentors (AIRMs) through technology foresight as well as identification and evaluation of ethical issues. Scenario plan...

📝 Latest Publication Alert! 📝

"AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues"

Daniel Crean, Michał Wieczorek, Bert Gordijn & Alan J. Kearns

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

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#ArtificialIntelligence
#ResearchIntegrity

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Authoritarianism and Business Education: The Coming Threat from Generative AI - Global Focus Magazine Explore the rise of authoritarianism in U.S. universities amid political pressure and funding cuts affecting education quality.

"Authoritarianism and Business Education: The Coming Threat from Generative AI"

by Professor Jerry Davis via @downes.bsky.social

#AuthoritarianEdTech

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Educational AI Risks Becoming an Authoritarian Vehicle for Thought Control These systems are a dictator’s dream: the perfect infrastructure for the imposition of totalitarianism.

"Educational AI Risks Becoming an Authoritarian Vehicle for Thought Control"

by Nicholas Rabb on
@truthout.org

"These systems are a dictator’s dream: the perfect infrastructure for the imposition of totalitarianism."

truthout.org/articles/edu...
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Authoritarian EdTech #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78219

Thank you for writing such an important paper. The resignation of so many to an imaginary tech manifest destiny—including in the educational community, is shocking. There’s no inevitable future—only one to which we will default unless we can shake people’s sense of helplessness. We are not powerless

Prisons in England and Wales to cut spending on education courses by up to 50% Move comes despite election manifesto promises from Keir Starmer to improve ‘access to learning’ Prisons across England and Wales are set to slash frontline spending on education courses by up to 50%, despite promises from Keir Starmer to improve “access to learning” in last year’s general election manifesto. The budget for classroom courses at HMP Leicester will be cut by 46.5%, another men’s prison is cutting spending by 25%, while a women’s prison is cutting its provision in education by 26%, sources have confirmed. Continue reading...

Prisons in England and Wales to cut spending on education courses by up to 50%

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Costello, E., Ferreira, G., Hrastinski, S., McDonald, J.K., Tlili, A., Veletsianos, G., Marin, V.I., Huijser, H.& Altena, S. (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Education Research and Scholarship:Seven Framings.Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 22(3). doi.org/10.53761/xs5...

8/ What critical, creative and pluralistic approaches can we take to research into its effects on the outcomes of and experiences of students in higher education? ’"

7/ We go on to suggest that to sustain the desirable but sometimes elusive nexus between research and teaching, we need to see both as rich, diverse, and distributed activities consisting of many actors. We seek to probe: What is AI? Who gets to say so and why?

6/ We describe why these particular frames are relevant and how we wrote this commentary.

/ It discusses seven framings of AIED: methodological pluralism; metaphors; ethnographic studies; imagining futures through fiction; humanistic groundings of AI design and development; third space professionals in research; and open education.

4/ This commentary aims to provide
educational researchers with a glimpse into the wide array of research problems and problematisation of AI in Education (AIED).

3/ This is a crucial step in any inquiry that is of concern to both novice and experienced researchers alike: moving from problem-solving to problematisation

2/ She described a particular point we may reach at which technical solutions stop working, and when we should then widen the lens to ask about the problem framing itself.