Stephen Gow

Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms This article examines the rise of platform bureaucratization in highly digitalized classrooms. Drawing on an ethnographic study in a Swedish lower secondary school, we examine how teachers and stud...

"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...

YouTube video by More Perfect Union How Big Tech Uses YOUR Kids’ Classrooms To Sell THEIR Products

youtu.be/aByWLQ7h2n0 #aiappeasment anyone? I can't even trust myself not to get distracted when working online - if my kids are on a laptop trying to do homework most of the time I check, they are doing something else. If they have a book/paper exercise, they happily get on with it...

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... @kaiserkuo.bsky.social - sure you know this story already but worth a read - a parallel narrative to Feifei Li's excellent autobiography...love the thought of fire side salons keeping the intellectual embers going during the Cultural Revolution...

Two Dancers, 1949, by Salvador Dali

Thanks Neil. Say no to #AIappeasement!

Authoritarian EdTech - Eamon Costello, Stephen Gow, 2025 Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...

“Educational technology has become, in its ontological infrastructures, increasingly centralised, less open and more powerful. Through GenAI, it is less truthful, less trustworthy and more epistemologically nihilistic.”
@eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social

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Our open-access AIED commentary is out

"Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings"

🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald

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Beginning to put some details on my visit to NZ in November for #ISSOTL. Going to spend a bit of time in Aus too. Anyone want me to come visit and talk about our work? Hidden Curriculum, belonging, assessment and curriculum design…

AGI Beyond the Buzz: What Is It, and Are We Ready? Aza Raskin and Randima Fernando.

@davidmusgrave.bsky.social Enjoyed your INRAP session today, then found this: "...if the economy can't tell that we swapped out a human with an AI, well, that's what AGI is." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/agi-beyond...

Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

An absolute must watch: youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... - we need to end Technological Appeasement.

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Join the excellent Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier - two full-time Academic Skills Advisers. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...

But how? And why even? Practical examples of ways assessments have been modified Modifying or changing assessment ‘because of AI’ always feels like it feeds ‘us and them’ narratives of a forthcoming apocalypse (already predicted) and couches the change a…

Good morning. To foreshadow a project at KIng's where we are collecting examples from across faculties of modified assessments I have begun collecting a few from elsewhere. Is it about AI or is it just about better assessment? Some are former; some the latter I think. mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/a...

Live in Berkeley: Jessica Chen Weiss and Ryan Hass on the U.S. and China in 2025 Podcast Episode · Sinica Podcast · 12/03/2025 · 1h 2m

Great to hear Alistair and Rory giving China some thought - I'd recommend checking out @kaiserkuo.bsky.social and his amazing Sinica Podcast to keep up on China related research and culture: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

GenAI Digest February 2025 — StudentX GenAI Early GenAI 2025.

www.studentxgenai.co.uk/genai-digest... - some useful GenAI and education resources so far this year.

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

Judge Rules Against Fair Use Defense for AI Company - Plagiarism Today A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.

A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.

www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j...

#Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw

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My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity

Lauren Lavern has a segment on BBC6 music called House Music dedicated to this...https://www.instagram.com/bbc6music/reel/C4GaNxdKdnY/ - Hilarious.

An admission of pseudo-science...

“No one wants to kill the golden goose,”...If management and marketing professors embraced all of psychology’s reforms, he said, then many of their most memorable, most TED Talk–able findings would go away. “To use marketing lingo, we’d lose our unique value proposition...” - Ouch.