As educational technology becomes increasingly embedded in daily learning, students are generating vast amounts of data with every interaction. Behind colourful interfaces and gamified learning experiences lies an uncomfortable reality: children’s educational journeys are being converted into valuable data assets that fuel corporate profit margins. Examining the terms of service of popular edtech platforms reveals […]

We’ve all heard that our data is being collected so often that it’s become white noise. But what happens when that data isn’t just your shopping preferences or your music taste, but the data about how a child learns? What happens when every struggle, every breakthrough, every moment of confusion becomes a commodity? This is […]

“AI will revolutionize education.” “With this technology, we can finally personalize learning for every student.” These promises sound familiar, don’t they? They echo the same rhetoric that has accompanied every new technology entering the educational space over the past decades. As I mentioned in my first blog post, we’ve gone through various cycles of tech […]

“We have to adapt to the changing technological landscape.” “AI is the future of education – we need to get on board or get left behind.” I’ve heard variations of these statements countless times over the past few months, both in my conversations with educators and in broader discussions about AI in education. Each time, […]

Besides the general disorientation I sensed when speaking to schools over the Christmas break, there was one other thing I noticed: the diversity in how they’re approaching AI in Education. It’s not simply a matter of different technological capabilities or resources, but different philosophical (and pedagogical) stances on it.   One school has embraced AI […]

This post (and the following one) have sat in my drafts for a few weeks. Over the Christmas holidays, I had the opportunity to meet with educators from three different Jesuit schools within our educational network. While I’d originally planned these as casual conversations to just touch base on where they were at, and what […]

I’ve been thinking about something that’s shifted my perspective on AI in education. What if we’re approaching this all wrong? What if, instead of seeing AI as a tool we use in education (like we use a calculator, laptop or a whiteboard), we thought of it as a medium through which education happens (like how […]

The course on Future Learning Organisations sparked something in my brain, shifting how I see various aspects of education. But it was at the book launch for Dr James Lamb & Dr Lucila Carvalho’s “*Towards harmonious, positive, postdigital Spaces for Learning*” where the pieces really fell into place. Here’s what hit me: in our postdigital […]

“To those who have, more will be given.” This biblical phrase, which sociologist Robert K. Merton dubbed the Matthew Effect, has long haunted discussions of inequality. As I watch the AI hype, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), and their supposed effects education, I can’t help but wonder: are we on the brink of another example […]

I’ve been wrestling with a question: how do we integrate Generative AI into education without short-circuiting the actual learning process? It’s a tricky balance – these AI tools are incredibly powerful at creation (think top of Bloom’s taxonomy), but what happens if students skip straight to the end, missing all those crucial learning steps along […]