🟨 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

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this paper @elinorcarmi.bsky.social & Nakou ask digital rights NGO practitioners about their experience on what mobilizes citizens to act against Big Tech & how data citizenship can offer possible ways forward for society to take. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/zzutf4xb

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this article Borgström, Karlsson & Lundahl utilise LLMs and computational text analysis to thematise a comprehensive textual database of all parliamentary speeches on independent schools in Sweden. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/4b8z762d

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this paper Kelly argues that platforms reconfigure the parent–child relationship in the school context through regimes of hypervisibility and performativity that penetrate core educational values and engender new ways of being. Read more: tinyurl.com/36zbw8xf

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this paper @philnichols.bsky.social, LeBlanc & @alliethrall.bsky.social offer ‘parametrization' to better capture the interplay of digital practices as territorialized and coded in different ways, across different scales. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/58m4zrdp

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this article @amystorn.bsky.social & @rabani.bsky.social invite researchers to engage screencapture not only as a mode of data collection but as a site of inquiry – one that reflects, mediates, and conditions practice. Read more: tinyurl.com/3rj9s8fj

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 Here @amandalevido.bsky.social, @aleeshajoy.bsky.social, @dezuanni.bsky.social & Woods report on a study, designed to raise understandings of how to teach children about algorithmic practices through practice-based workshops. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2ucyf7na

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In their study Buntins, Bedenlier & @zawacki-richter.bsky.social show how syntheses in educational technology research are potential contributors to global imbalances in knowledge construction. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/3fjskh62

In their analysis of Stack Overflow threads Seredko, @thomashillman.bsky.social & Lundin illustrate how epistemic objects are locally produced as sociomaterial accomplishments and are intertwined with the broader material context of a professional domain. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2pk34k2e

This new Special Issue will be officially launched and discussed during a launch event on March 27th 2025, 2:00-3:30 PM (UK time). Hosted by @srhe.bsky.social and facilitaded by guest editor @jkom.bsky.social. Catch many of the authors during this webinar by registering here: tinyurl.com/mksr24dn

🟨Volume 50, Issue 1 (2025) of LMT🟪 Let's introduce our new Special Issue! In their editorial @jkom.bsky.social, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Sam Sellar intruduce the dynamics of #rentiership and #assetisation in the digitalisation of education. Read all articles: tinyurl.com/a8bvzkxe

And in this one, #opensource is very policital. Much more than just "free". Reflections on rebusque as a strategy for resisting #BigTech and prioritising local needs instead. By @nicolasruiz.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy and colleagues. doi.org/10.1080/1743... #CriticalEdTech #EduSky #OER

Exploring minimal computing in refugee education in Uganda, this paper looks at the pedagogies, psychosocial support and attention to social justice that are needed. #edtech is about care here, not about developmentalist "progress". By Martha Akello et al. #CriticalEdTech doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Natalie Rusk, @rupsthereitis.bsky.social, Caitlin K. Martin, @ricarose.bsky.social, @jaafreitas.bsky.social & Linford Molaodi share stories about a co-design process between scholars and community educators to develop a coding app. #globaleducation #CriticalEdTech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The title says it already: "Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education". Micah Sapir reflects on a "minimal technological will". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CriticalEdTech

Andrew Pilsch reflects on the complexities and tensions of experimenting with minimal computing tools in the classroom. Many ideas for #edusky in this piece. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CriticalEdTech

In Decolonizing digital accessibility within land/water realities using minimal computing, @digitalliterate.bsky.social & Joaquín T. Argüello de Jesús warn us to beware of sharks. What happens to the local in schools? Minimal computing is relevant. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CriticalEdTech

In the editorial, @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @readywriting.bsky.social problematise Big EdTech, with a nod to the pre-digital history of #edtech. They foreground the leading question of #minimalcomputing: What do we need? And ask what this means for education. #DH

New issue of @lmt-journal.bsky.social coming out soon, so first I want to highlight this fantastic special issue that snuck out at the end of 2024 on minimal computing and #edtech #edusky #CriticalEdTech

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this article @henrikafloren.bsky.social, Bezemer & Domingo investigate the #assessment of a post-production film project in a vocationally oriented media course with formally agreed learning outcomes stated in the course syllabus. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/bdfm9v42

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this article Decuypere an colleagues develop ask how the data infrastructuring of an edtech event on the one hand, and the data infrastructuring of ethnographic event research on the other hand, relate to, and impact, one another. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/5arcvsdc

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this article @annekovalainen.bsky.social and @poutanenseppo.bsky.social develop an analysis on how knowledge is understood as a means for #assetisation, shaped by state activities and supported by state-owned #platforms. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/mt8x2mb9

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 This study by Lee and Ching illustrates that social influences are key drivers of early trust as students rely heavily on social cues to build confidence in using embodiment technologies. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/4btth88c

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study Shaheen argues that in/accessible technology-mediated education is an assemblage of learning, access labor, teachers, technologies, temporalities, and affectivities. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2c46t2du

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this paper Lindell & Utterberg Modén investigate a school development activity where educational actors in secondary schools navigate the effects of GenAI. Read more: tinyurl.com/z8wan7hx

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study Ro demonstrates that the educational #digitalisation initiative led by #policymakers in Korea holds a narrow conception of education that weakens the meaning of schooling. Read more: tinyurl.com/ydp6kdhs

🟨 #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.

🟨 #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...

🟨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

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this article Riley, Meston, Wallis & Kim illustrate how integrating Indigenous cultural perspectives with #DigitalLiteracy can be a profound commitment to addressing historical injustices and fostering equity in education. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/bdzxzcnv

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this paper @philnichols.bsky.social, @charleswlogan.bsky.social & @anterobot.bsky.social examine #Luddism to consider what lessons it holds for how education research and practice might confront #AI automation. Read more: tinyurl.com/3ysb8a4z

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study Gretzky & Dishon suggest that #LLMs merit broadening the notion of Author-Function beyond human authorship to include Algorithmic-Authors as participants in the construction and circulation of academic discourse. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2xmujtds

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this paper Garz and @lilliriettiens.bsky.social use the heuristics of small forms and formats as starting point for posing epistemological questions about the possible changes brought about by digitization in the present. Read more: tinyurl.com/5avnuh3p

🟪 New Publication in #LMT 🟨 In this article Fassbender describes #GenAI through the lens of new materialist thought, considering how the concept of the centaur could frame ontological, epistemological, and ethical issues related to #AIED platforms. Read more: tinyurl.com/yvsz5zz4

🟨Call for Papers🟪 Submit a manuscript for a Special Issue on 'Post-Platform Education: Reimagining Digital Ecosystems in Primary and Secondary Schooling' edited by @lucascone.bsky.social & Kerssens. Abstracts ➡ 28 February 2025 Manuscripts ➡ 31 July 2025 Read more: tinyurl.com/2c3mpnfp

🟨Call for Papers🟪 Submit a manuscript for a Special Issue on 'How edtech is made: Researching an evolving industry-education complex' edited by Sefton-Green, Pangrazio & @andyzhao.bsky.social. Abstracts ➡ 25 April 2025 Manuscripts ➡ 30 January 2026 Read more: tinyurl.com/4twy3h4j

🟨Volume 49, Issue 5 (2024) of LMT🟪 Guest editors @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @readywriting.bsky.social present how #minimalcomputing offers an alternative to the narrative of technological solutionism that drives Big EdTech. Read all articles: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/4...