Bob Harrison

Do you influence strategy, policy, or culture in learning tech? Enter the ALT Leadership in Digital Education Award and be recognised for your vision. Deadline: 14 July. Learn more: buff.ly/jxEt2k0 #DigitalLeadership #ALTAwards2025 #altc

Our next CPD Webinar explores 'Top Tips on Student Guidance for the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Higher Education'. #altc Members are invited to join us on 9 July - Learn more: buff.ly/qvXGDvT

"Digital training opportunities should be made available to everyone so that you are providing a safe space to develop digital skills & digital literacy. Make your training accessible to TAs, admin & site staff, governors, students & parents" @ictevangelist.bsky.social @ollylewisedu.bsky.social 1/2

Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time Exclusive: education secretary exploring tools to compile student reports and assess writing and vocational skills

Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time. Spoiler alert. It doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#ARLTSIG next event is part of their series on ‘Tackling racism in the Education and EdTech sector’. Matthew Johnson, the CEO of Race on the Agenda, one of Britain's leading anti-racist change drivers, joins us to explore how we can tackle systemic racism in the Education & EdTech sector.
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Meet the educational entrepreneurs who want to teach a new generation of Elon Musks The billionaire's admirers and ex-employees have launched online schools and an “unapologetically elitist” AI tutor.

“The EdTech bros will counter that they want to re-design schools around their tech. Their vision is to “replace entire functions of the teacher” with their “infinitely patient, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful” AI tutors.

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ALT & Echo360 invite you to join our upcoming webinar (9 April) on leveraging digital technologies to transform learning. Dr. Richard Nelson will guide us through University of Bradford’s transformative journey along their Digital Education Roadmap. Register now - go.alt.ac.uk/4iL9xa8 #altc

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

110 - The Percolator Podcast Episode · Leading Virtual Teams with Dr Maren Deepwell · 14/03/2025 · 26m

Episode 110 is out now. In this episode I share a preview of a new space I have created to share work in progress, a new project in the making, i.e. Long Distance Leadership Postcards, and reflect on progress with re-inventing Mondays. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

Why Michaela Community School embodies the worst aspects of English Education. Blog 35. Katherine Birbalsingh has written in the Spectator a second time attacking Bridget Phillipson. James Whiting (SEA Secretary) critiques her Michaela project in a second post on the school.

Why Michaela Community School embodies the worst aspects of English Education.
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Thanks Siobahn…It was a huge mistake and we told them at the time but the DfE and BCS refused to listen

Automated Contempt The political-technological crisis is only deepening in the United States, and I hardly know where to begin today's email to you, other than to say that I hope you're okay. And if you're not, do feel ...

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Always worth listening to what Audrey has to say

Ben Williamson on LinkedIn: Great edtech exhibitions as futuring events 30,000 people attended "the biggest education technology exhibition in the world” last month - I was one of them. What I learned about the edtech future of…

“Edtech exhibitions are futurist discourse dissemination forums. The discourse typical of BETT is that schooling must be “smarter”, with technologies elevated as solutions to all contemporary problems of a “broken” system of institutionalized education.”

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What can we learn from the PIAAC adult skills survey to inform post-16 policy in England? - Education Policy Institute On 24th February 2025, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) will hold a public webinar looking at what we can learn from the PIAAC adult skills survey to inform post-16 policy in England. This event i...

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Birbalsingh v Phillipson. Marxism or Elitism? Blog 34 James Whiting, General Secretary of the SEA, explains how Labour should not be worried about challenging the Michaela Community School model.

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YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Bugs Bots & Algorithmic Bias: Examining the Power and Peril of AI in Education

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“Unfortunately, in many ways, AI is quietly automating educational inequity, exacerbating the school-to-prison nexus, further reinforcing tracking and within-school segregation, and creating “synthetic” gaps in achievement and opportunity”

#AI will not save us from greedy billionaires
It will not prevent greed
It will not solve man's inhumanity to man

Only people can do that. We all have a part to play.
#justsaying

(PDF) The commodification of education and the (generative) AI-induced scam-like culture PDF | Learning is hard, mastery takes time, and time ripens all things. This may seem appalling in an age where instant gratification offers quick ways... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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“In this paper, we argue that there still is no sign of a revolution of AI in education, only in the media and corporate outlets. “

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education

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“Generative AI tools can make certain written tasks quicker and easier, but it cannot replace the judgement and deep subject knowledge of a human expert.”

Taxonomy of Social Media Platforms for Learning in Higher Education Purvis. A. and Beckingham, S. (2024) A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review. (2024). Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 21(05). https://doi.org/10.53761/vvvccy83

Timeline of Social Media and Communication Platforms Purvis. A. and Beckingham, S. (2024) A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review. (2024). Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 21(05). https://doi.org/10.53761/vvvccy83

Following the publication of our paper 'A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review' in JUTLP, @dralison.bsky.social and I are very happy to share that two associated infographics are now available to download with a CC licence.

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Time for a Pause: Without Effective Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good. Ignoring their own well-publicized calls to regulate AI development and to pause implementation of its applications, major technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta are racing to fend o...

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“The weight of the available evidence suggests that the current wholesale adoption of unregulated AI applications in schools poses a grave danger to democratic civil society and to individual freedom and liberty.”

Edtech brokers and evidence governance: knowledge intermediaries in the education technology market New types of intermediary organisations are creating evidence to guide school practices and shape markets around education technologies. This article focuses on the practices through which edtech b...

We need a pedagogical approach not an economical one

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AI-powered virtual school where kids spend just 2 hours on academics coming to Arizona The Charter Board has greenlit a virtual charter school where computer programs will teach students “core instruction” for just two hours per day.

Moe and Chubb “Liberating Learning” becomes real

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AI in schools - Talking Teachers Professor Rose Luckin is an internationally respected academic and influential communicator across multiple stakeholders about the future of education and technology, particularly artificial intellige...

AI in schools with Rose Luckin

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Hear, hear Bob!
Like all other learning technology innovation, #AI use must be grounded in established #FE pedagogy and introduced in collaboration with - or preferably led by - expert educator and learner voices.
#UKFE #AmplifyFE #EduSky #EdTech

The Economic Case for AI-Enabled Education The Economic Case for AI-Enabled Education

It’s not about economics it’s about pedagogics

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Government delays Oak National Academy review An 'independent' review of Oak National Academy will not be published until early next year, with a consultation launched for edtech firms to set out if the online school has impacted their business

Don’t delay just shut it down!

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Ofsted to review use of AI in schools DfE commissions watchdog to examine how AI can 'support teaching and learning' and manage admin

30 yrs researching the use of technology for teaching, learning and assessment OFSTED have always been years behind what schools and colleges were doing. This is like asking the manager of a horse stables to inspect formula one racing….

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Weighing in on Casey Newton's "AI is fake and sucks" debate AI is real, but the hype is manufactured. A dose of skepticism is helpful for seeing how this story goes.

t's necessary to be skeptical of claims made by powerful, big tech-adjacent hypesters of AI in education, before they convince others - like depts of ed - to act on the hype to the potential further detriment of the sector.”

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