Tessa Consoli

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay. The paper suggests that the usage of LLMs could actually harm learning, especially for younger users.

🗯️ 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...

On my way to #ecces #phzh. The program is promising✨. Yes, I printed it🦕🦖🖨️. Difficult to choose which panel to attend!

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!
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#PostdigitalEducation #EducationalFutures

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.

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...

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...

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

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: 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...

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. 📢🧑🏾‍💻🌍

We already have many people involved, if you want to contribute just make a donation or share the link.

Donate to Sakina: "Mother hold me tight!", organised by Lida Naeim Sakina was able to flee from the Taliban, but not from leukaemia, which was diagnosed last … Lida Naeim needs your support for Sakina: "Mother hold me tight!"

You can contribute here and share the existing link gofund.me/180d76ea

Beyond risk: reducing the gap between diaspora youth digital citizenship needs and school curricula by Amelia Johns, Anita Harris, Emily Booth, Gilbert Caluya and Jessica Walton ABSTRACT Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with social issues and citizenship practices. Diaspora youth are further stigmatised, being defined as ‘at-risk’ of greater harm from digital environments, which frames them as victims or non-agentic. This article draws on qualitative research with diaspora youth, as well as policymakers and educators, about their digital citizenship education needs, practices and views. We explore their perceptions of digital citizenship: as a concept and practice, and also its place and framing within Australian school education. The findings reflect a disconnect between diaspora youth and key stakeholders regarding the purpose and benefits of digital citizenship education. This illustrates a need for a more nuanced approach that takes diaspora youths’ own experiences, needs and aspirations seriously in the design of school curricula.

🟨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.

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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 ...

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.

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?

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. 🧠🍥🤯
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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...

This study highlights how reliance on #generativeAI tools creates a feedback loop where increased cognitive offloading exacerbates the decline in #criticalthinking. 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️

reading 📖🤓

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

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.”

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...

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. 🌳🌲🍄

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 …

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."

Screenshot of the first page of an article titled "Generative AI and the (Re)turn to Luddism" published in the journal Learning, Media, and Technology.

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.

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Paywalled, but reach out for a PDF!

“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…

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.

YouTube video by Steve Kenner Nicht neutral!

Ich bin nicht neutral! Warum der Mythos Neutralität ein politisches Kampfmittel der neuen Rechten ist und nicht nur Bildungsarbeit, sondern letztlich die Demokratie gefährdet 👇🏽

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A philosophically informed glossary of key concepts in AI

www.aiglossary.co.uk/index

Publication alert✨Swiss schools place little emphasis on #mediaeducation, leaving gaps in fostering students' digital citizenship. Expressive media activities foster civic engagement but not respect. How can both be fostered?
#digitalliteracy #medialiteracy #DigitalCitizenshipEducation