Pekka Mertala (University of Oulu) talks about a new exhaustive analysis of nearly 1900 articles that charts the evolving use of the ‘digital native’ concept in academic literature. We talk about the history of the idea of ‘digital natives’, wh

Emotion AI in education

May 14th, 2024 17m 4s

Nathalie DiBerardino (Western University) discusses the growing take-up of emotion AI in schools – tech that claims to detect student attention, concentration, and even interest levels. What are the harms of relying on such tech in classrooms,

Banning mobile phones from schools

Apr 28th, 2024 19m 10s

Jack Reed (University of Exeter) talks about the recent UK government push to ban mobile phones from schools in England. He fills us in on the motivations of UK politicians, why phone bans need to seen as a human rights issue, and the benefits

Digital technologies in early childhood education

Apr 15th, 2024 19m 24s

Antti Paakkari (Tampere University) talks about his research on digital technologies in Finnish early childhood centres – from digital portfolios to activity trackers. We discuss how these technologies are changing the dynamics between children

Digital technologies and the commercialism of education

Apr 2nd, 2024 15m 6s

Faith Boninger talks about how digital technologies are increasingly implicated in the commercialism of education. We talk about Faith’s involvement in the long-running NEPC reports on virtual high schools, the NEPC’s fight against personalise

Is there a place for facial recognition technology in education?

Mar 10th, 2024 19m 18s

Recent reports of facial recognition technology being developed for use in US classrooms has attracted widespread criticism. We talk to Charles Logan (Northwestern University) about the problems that facial recognition poses for students and ed

The history of educational computing in Europe

Feb 27th, 2024 21m 36s

Michael Geiss (Zurich University of Teacher Education) talks about a new edited book looking at how computers came into European schools from the 1960s to 1990s. We talk about the importance of ‘pioneer’ teachers in paving the way for EdTech ma

Is it time to rethink how we teach Digital Citizenship?

Feb 10th, 2024 16m 12s

Jack Webster (University of Auckland) talks about the need to update how schools teach the topic of ‘Digital Citizenship’, and how post-digital thinking might revitalise this often-overlooked aspect of digital education. Accompanying reference

AI technology in primary classrooms - a Swedish perspective

Jan 24th, 2024 17m 15s

Katerina Sperling (Linköping University) talks about her ongoing research into the realities of AI use in Swedish primary classrooms. Accompanying reference >> Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden, Jörgen Nissen, Fredrik Heintz (2022). Stil

Why the digital disruption of higher education might be a long time coming …

Dec 10th, 2023 13m 47s

Claire Murray (University of South Australia) talks about research looking at the claims made by EdTech companies and investors about the ‘digital disruption’ of universities.She talks about how the EdTech sector is limited by its focus on the

The de-digitization of Swedish schools?

Nov 26th, 2023 15m 2s

In August 2023, the Swedish education minister Lotta Edholm surprised many people by announcing her government’s intention to reverse the country’s previous bold commitment to the digitisation of schools. With more details now emerging of an of

The political and economic agendas behind EdTech

Nov 15th, 2023 14m 35s

In this episode, Dr. Lulu Shi (University of Oxford) talks about the her new research around the economic and political agendas of tech firms and policymakers driving the digitalisation of education in the UK. Lulu’s work is already raising int

AI and education – making sense of the hype

Oct 23rd, 2023 14m 23s

Wayne Holmes (UCL) has been working around AI and education *long* before it became fashionable! In this episode, Wayne looks back over the recent hype around Chat GPT and generative AI and offers some suggestions of where the field of AI and e

AI and education in China

Oct 4th, 2023 17m

Reports of ‘what China is doing’ are a key part of the hype around AI and education in Western countries.But how is AI actually being developed in China, and how can we make sense of the complex politics, history and culture of Chinese educatio

Audrey Watters’ ‘Second Breakfast’

Sep 16th, 2023 22m 9s

Until recently, Audrey Watters was one of the most prominent and prolific critics of digital technology and education – dubbed ‘ed-tech's Cassandra'.Then in 2021, she published a book, quit Twitter, and wound up her highly influential ‘Hack Ed

Digitisation of education … what are critical scholars writing about in 2023?

Sep 2nd, 2023 17m 29s

Ben Williamson joins us for a sneak preview of the mammoth 2024 World Yearbook of Education with eighteen new chapters themed around “Digitalization of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence.”Accompanying re

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Season 1 - Trailer

May 30th, 2023 1m 23s

Advance warning of ‘Education Technology Society’ … a new podcast about digital education and education futures.This is a place to catch up with the latest ideas, arguments and work coming out of the critical studies of education and technolog

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