In week 10 of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we are encouraged to reflect on the educational inequalities within our context and how these might be (at least partially) resolved or potentially further aggravated by educational technology. We are asked to consider a variety of resources on social class as well as on […]
In week 9 of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we are discussing digital education’s pedagogic methods and are encouraged to consider which of them are often prioritized by educational technology and what might be the implications of this on education and society at large. In this post, I will discuss how behaviorism is […]
In week 8 of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we discussed one of the most commonly cited advantages of using AI in education – its potential to personalize learning. We are then invited to reflect on why, given its potential, why would anyone argue we have to be careful about personalized learning. In […]
In week 7 of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we are talking about the hype of AIEd (the fusion of AI and EdTech) and challenging the claims and assumptions of AIEd supporters. In this post, I will summarise some of these claims and why I think we should be critical of them instead […]
In week 6 of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we are invited to reflect on the political structures behind EdTech investments and how venture capital funds, companies, and NGOs that are investing in educational technologies are articulating their view on the purpose of education and using their influence to tilt “the playfield” in […]
In week 5 of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we have been discussing how platform capitalism (Srnicek 2017) and tech companies’ fixation on scalability (Pfotenhauer et al. 2022) are changing the field of education, and higher public education in particular. To help us develop this discussion and reflect on the readings provided this […]
In week 3, we are invited to think about the processes behind the market-making for EdTech products using the example of Bridge International Academies, a for-profit education provider of low-cost schooling to children in India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. By reviewing the work by Riep (2017), we have analyzed what were the contributing factors to […]
In week 2 of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we were encouraged to reflect on whether the EdTech sector offers a valid diagnosis of what’s wrong with education and whether it can therefore offer valid solutions. After reflecting on the resources provided, I would like to take it even further and question whether […]
In our first week of the Critical Issues in Digital Education course, we are encouraged to consider what the purpose of education is, what are some of its key functions and how it applies to our professional context. We have been introduced to the concept of “learnification” of education (Biesta, 2004) which is the shift […]
This semester I’m embarking on a new exciting journey with the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. It’s a part-time, fully online program that I’m planning to study at for the next 3,5-4 years. This particular blog is for my first taught course in this program, Critical Issues in Digital Education, and […]
