Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
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Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? TeknologirĂĽdet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...
What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful.
isrf.org/blog/what-do...
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
Yesterday my 14yo told us she wants to rewrite her English coursework because the schoolâs AI checker gave it an 80% score (ie 4 in 5 chance it was written using GenAI). It definitely wasnât. Another way AI is fucking over the kids. I hate it so much.
Glad to see this from the FT, but many have been raising this for a long time and it's been disregarded as a sort of digital nimbyism or patronised as pearl-clutching panic. Labour needs a decent tech strategy and Blair and Mandelson's influence on policy needs to end with the change in leadership
This is such an important point: we rightly bemoan the âcorporatizationâ of higher ed but the irony is that many of the corporate managerial practices being imposed on us were discredited and abandoned by for-profit corporations long ago.
Assetization transforms workers into income-generating assets, reshaping employment, shifting financial risks onto labour, and blurring the boundary between people and the value extracted from them.
https://ow.ly/wYkO50YVY9k
Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm www.nature.com/articles/d41... ... I have some thoughts...
Edtech investors are *spooked* by the current public backlash to tech and AI in education so much that they're writing multi-part blog posts desperately pushing back on the pushback www.reachcapital.com/resources/th...
Teknologirüdet har gjennom 35 case dokumentert og vurdert bruk av KI i vürt eget arbeid med teknologivurdering, blant annet til kartlegging av eksperter og aktører, horisontskanning, utvikling av scen...
