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Neil Selwyn
@neilselwyn.bsky.social
digital media + education | Monash University | research interests: automation, AI, tech bans, public interest ed-tech | host of 'Education Technology Society' podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377
Why are academics using GenAI to write articles, grade assignments, compose emails and a lot of other tasks that they would/should otherwise be doing themselves? A brief summary of our anonymous survey of over 200 academics' 'grey uses' of GenAI ... researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a...
Academic (mis)uses of GenAI
This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …
researchwhisperer.org
As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.
nysfocus.com
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ www.404media.co/henrico-virg...
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computer...
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Large numbers of academic experts have been loudly arguing that social media bans don't make sense & don't work ... however, no-one seems particularly willing to listen. Criticism of the social media ban don't seem to be sticking ... so, time for new approaches?! www.bera.ac.uk/blog/academi...
Academics and the UK social media ban: Lessons from Australia
Looking on from the other side of the world, the UK’s proposed social media ban already seems to be progressing along very familiar lines. As education researchers now dealing with the aftermath...
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Australia is set to have a national media literacy strategy - some thoughts on what this should look like (and the pitfalls that need to be avoided!): lens.monash.edu/will-austral...
Will Australians get the ‘National Media Literacy Strategy’ they need?
The Albanese government has confirmed further details of its intention to develop a National Media Literacy strategy as part of its $153.5m ‘News Media Assistance’ program.
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🔜 Education International is bringing unions together in Madrid to put learners and teachers at the centre of AI in education. We are stepping up 🚸 to protect students 🛡️ to defend teachers 🌏 to shape the future Stay tuned! #AIinEducation #GoPublic
ICYMI - The AI Resist List - nine different ways (and lots of practical examples) of how you can contribute to the fight against AI ... airesistlist.org
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
airesistlist.org
"A Charter School Spent $500,000 on AI-Powered Humanoid Robots. Was It Worth It?" ... you really do have to ask what pushes a school to waste $500,000 on such an extreme case of 'AI theater'! voiceofsandiego.org/2026/06/24/a...
A Charter School Spent $500,000 on AI-Powered Humanoid Robots. Was It Worth It?
Officials at a charter chain known for credit recovery made a couple of big-dollar purchases in the form of ChatGPT-powered robots. Researchers are skeptical they’re worth the dough.
voiceofsandiego.org
new article: Toward a Sociology of AI and Education ... introductory piece written with my @cder-oxford.bsky.social colleagues Lulu Shi, Rebecca Eynon & Jeremy Knox: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The digital backlash continues in education ... secondary schools in Victoria (Australia) will only be allowed 2 hours of screen-time each day, with schools compelled to plan for 'device-free learning time' ... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Eyes up, screens down’: Victoria restricts tech in high school classrooms to two hours a day in national first
Academic says laptops have ‘completely overtaken’ traditional note-taking and research and other states should ‘absolutely’ follow the state’s lead
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If only there were other more effective ways that governments could genuinely 'stand up to big tech'?! I guess banning young people from having social media accounts is all we can do ...
"Veremos una intensificación de la militarización y el autoritarismo de las nuevas tecnologías" - una nueva entrevista conmigo ha sido publicada en El Asombrario & Co... una discusión muy interesante sobre el futuro de la tecnología digital! elasombrario.publico.es/veremos-una-...
“Veremos una intensificación de la militarización y autoritarismo de las nuevas tecnologías”
La digitalización parecía ser el camino para conseguir un escenario global más igualitario, pero está resultando ser lo contrario. Según Naciones Unidas,
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Learning Analytics is now a growing part of ed-tech - especially in universities. Listen to my interview with Dr. Hannes Hautz about his research on students' responses to having these technologies introduced into their courses .... www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Greenwashing AI in Higher Ed: An environmental argument for universities’ resistance to Big Tech ... new essay by Matthew Riemland open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/6-184
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Do schools need to be more careful when using social media? Listen to me talk with Dr. Tiffani Apps about the data justice & child rights issues that schools face when using social media for self-promotion & communicating with parents ... www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
"Hay mucha tecnología educativa ahí fuera que debería reducirse drásticamente... o desaparecer por completo"... ¡Me alegra ser destacada en este nuevo artículo! exitoeducativo.net/actualidad-d...
Neil Selwyn (pedagogo): “Existe mucha tecnología educativa que debería reducirse drásticamente… o desaparecer por completo”
El catedrático de Monash University propone una mirada incómoda pero necesaria: repensar el papel de la tecnología en educación más allá del entusiasmo tecnológico dominante.
exitoeducativo.net
Is Ed-Tech Falling Out of Favour? ... new blog post: with the backlash against digital technology in schools gaining momentum, how can public faith be restored in ed-tech? criticaledtech.com/2026/05/10/i...
The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
theguardian.com
Does GenAI spell the death of the essay??? 📝 🤖 I spoke with assessment expert Thomas Corbin about the future of written assignments in the AI age, and why universities should rediscover the original spirit of essays as exploratory engagements with thinking. www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Does GenAI spell the death of the essay? - Education Technology Society
GenAI is changing the way that schools and universities think about student assessment. We talk to Thomas Corbin (Deakin University) about the future of the written essay in the era of AI, and ho...
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Developing a critical digital literacy course in a school system where the government is trying to get screens out of the classroom! Listen to me talk to Prof. Louise Mifsud about the new 'Empowered' project being run out of @oslomet.bsky.social ... www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Digitally empowered students? - Education Technology Society
How can students and teachers be supported to get the most out of living with digital tech? Prof. Louise Mifsud (Oslo Met) is leading a new project supporting students’ critical digital literacy....
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"Exploring Teachers’ Repair & Maintenance Work Around GenAI Technologies" ... new open access article from our Swedish research on the considerable behind-the-scenes repair work that teachers end up having to do when using GenAI tools to 'assist' them! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
new book coming out in January 2027! Very happy to have been involved in this project, although @markandrejevic.bsky.social must take the credit for most of the heavy lifting in getting this book written and out into the world - looks great! www.sup.org/books/media-...
Ed-tech as climate criminal? 🎙️ Colm O’Neill makes a really interesting case for rethinking ed-tech in light of its environmental costs ... I got to talk to him about the environmental harms associated with ed-tech and alternate ‘perma-computing’ approaches: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Vague ideas is certainly one way of describing AI hype in 2026 ….
In advance of this week's two-day humanities & liberal arts symposium on digital futures (held in HK & Zhuhai), here are the ten talking-points that I'll be highlighting to consider when thinking about the role(s) that digital tech should be playing in humanities, liberal arts & cultural education
Everything going on in the US at the moment rams home the point that tech has politics ... so listen here to Dr. Morgan Anderson talk about the politics of US ed-tech in these times of Trump 2.0 (spoiler: she uses the phrase 'cognitive dissonance' at least once): www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Six years on since COVID hit us all, and it is wild how most people in ed-tech now act like *nothing* happened. I got to talk with Mark West about how the pandemic fundamentally changed our dependency on ed-tech, and what we can learn from the COVID experience. www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
We're hearing more & more sloppy talk about 'AI ethics' in education - 🎧🎙️ listen to me talk to @michalwieczorek.bsky.social for a philosophical take on the ethics of AI ... and why a lot of current ed-tech is ethically questionable! www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
