🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 As part of LMT's 20th anniversary, in this editorial eight current and former editors reflect on the journal's achievements and consider its future. Read more: tinyurl.com/yk7k2hkf

@adriancrowley.bsky.social help! I really can’t stop playing ‘Measure of Joy’. Were these the new songs forming when you played the Green Note? Gorgeous. Looking forward to the Servant Jazz Quarters show!

Our book from our Playing the Archive project a few years ago is out now. Open access, free download from uclpress.co.uk/book/playing... @uclremap.bsky.social @vsigno.bsky.social

Here is an account of our recent Digital Inequalities and AI day which we shared with the UCL Knowledge Lab partly as a CSET event @vsigno.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social @neilselwyn.bsky.social reflect.ucl.ac.uk/remap-collab...

Couldn’t agree more. Well said, Anna 👍😌

"My root worry about AI has always been that while it was making machine learning better, it was also making human learning worse. I am not alone in this. ... AI doesn’t improve thinking but blocks essential stages of it." isrf.org/blog/the-fig...

"If universities don’t start asking harder questions about AI’s real value, they’ll keep spending money they don’t have on tools their students don’t need—while real educational challenges go unresolved."

🟨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. Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm

🟨 #LMT News 🟪 #LMT Editor Felicitas Macgilchrist (@discoursology.bsky.social) joins Neil Selwyn (@neilselwyn.bsky.social) to talk about what is 'critical' in critical studies of #EdTech. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

🟨 #LMT News 🟪 We warmly welcome Luci Pangrazio (@lucipangrazio.bsky.social) as new member of the #LMT editorial team! After many years of great contributions to the research field as well as the journal's editorial board we are excited to have her add a fourth voice to the editorial team.

New Lost and Found www.mixcloud.com/richard-grah... with @darrenhayman.bsky.social an old @theleaflibrary.bsky.social track, a new @firestations.bsky.social one and a collaboration ‘Mirrored Daughters’ and much more including Neko Case, new Nada Reid, Tunng, Seamus Fogarty...

If any proposed edtech tool doesn't necessarily help us do things better, why do we always phrase ethical use of AI as a "why not" question when the people who support its use don't offer a compelling "why even"? More detailed thoughts here blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: “we can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulate” #STS’ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy

My thoughts on the unsurprisingly tech-utopian AI Action Plan are too long to fit in BlueSky post or thread, but they are available here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jessic...

Pleased to say Learning, Media & Technology is now on here @lmt-journal.bsky.social and this special issue editorial from just before end of last year on MiniEdTech gives a sense of the kind of critical research on education and tech we publish @johnpp.bsky.social @discoursology.bsky.social

The Unbound Academy grift as summarized by @ddmeyer.bsky.social includes this self-dealing: "It is a conflict of interest, then, that 100% of Unbound Academy’s named board members are affiliated with th[e] vendors" whose services the board is paying for with public dollars.

We're getting the social media crisis wrong The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Hello @amandaallenphd.bsky.social I’m on here. Finally posted something. Thanks for the nudge on FB…😌