Category: Education

Towards digital disconnection

The emergence of the field of digital disconnection studies could offer novel approaches to understanding the relationship between education and technology. Our hypothesis is that digital disconnection literature…

Creative resistance

…social and emotional capabilities and creativity stand out as most resistant to machine-based competition. Bjarne Corydon et al. Corydon, B., Staun, J., Bughin, J., Andersen, J. R., Lüneburg,…

Zombie-like, into a digital welfare dystopia

A bit off-topic (digitization of the welfare state), but an interesting choice of words, considering the type of publication: The digital welfare state is either already a reality…

Undervisning i sengen

De fleste studerende oplevede under nedlukningen i foråret 2020, at de mistede motivation ved at arbejde hjemme, og at det over tid blev sværere eksempelvis at gøre sig…

The shortcomings of educators

Neoliberal commentators place primary blame on the shortcomings of educators [9]. They emphasize that teachers have relatively high rates of absenteeism [10], often fail to cover their curriculum over the…

Lavere end normalt

I analyse af datamaterialet tegner der sig et billede af, at læringsudbyttet af undervisningen i nedlukningen vurderes at have været lavere end normalt. I spørgeskemaundersøgelsen vurderer i alt…

Computing the nordic way

The societal desire for a computerised future intensified after the Second World War (and has effectively not diminished since). This desire, and the related imaginary, is often based…

Forskel tiltager kraftigt

I denne analyse viser vi stærke indikationer på, at coronakrisen har været til særlig ugunst for de fagligt svage 9. klasseelever, der dimitterede i sommeren 2020. Vi påviser,…

43% ensomhed

Omkring 43 pct. af de studerende på de videregående uddannelser følte sig enten ensomme på studiet nogle gange, ofte eller altid i efteråret 2020. Det svarer til en…

Fjernet glæden ved at uddanne sig

70 pct. af de studerende er meget enige eller enige i, at COVID-19-situationen har fjernet noget af glæden ved at uddanne sig, og 59 pct. er helt enige…

Privat lykketræf

Den aktuelle didaktiske adfærd tjener ikke sjældent til at holde eleverne i ånde i undervisningen. Alt for ofte bliver de forkælet med aflastning i stedet for at blive…

Aula og Amazon

Det er meget nemt at indtage en kritisk position over for et projekt af Aulas størrelse og kompleksitet, når man ikke er inde i forholdene: kravspecifikationer som formuleret…

Understanding digital technologies

I have contributed to four videos on understanding digital technologies, talking about digital literacy, digital self-defense, understanding of technology and understanding of algorithms. See them om the Copenhagen…

A more convincing base

My primary objective is to provide a more convincing base from which such discussions could be better pursued. However, it is clear that the dramatic skills shifts I…

We suggest blended learning etc

We suggest setting up a nationwide workforce plan in which expected needs are broken down in detail and expected necessary skills forecast. In Denmark, the public debate indicates…

Fordrer en mere åben didaktik

Lærerne må håndtere mangfoldigheden af teksttyper i deres undervisning, hvilket gør det vanskeligt at forberede sig på en måde, hvor man kan have fuldt kontrol over stoffet. Dette…

Læser ligegodt sammen eller alene om computer

Internationalt og i Sverige ser vi en positiv sammenhæng mellem skolelederens vurdering af, at digital ressourcemangel Ingen indflydelse har på undervisningen og elevernes onlinelæsescore. Derimod klarer eleverne i…

Wrong drivers

I hate to sound like a broken twitter but no other successful country became good through using technology at the front end. Without pedagogy in the driver’s seat…

Assessment Experiences (Brazil)

These seven dimensions of results clearly show the wide potential and diversity of the impact that digital technologies may have in the school universe. Theassessment must back projects…

Mindre motiverede end normalt

Det Nationale Videncenter for e-læring og Tænketanken DEA har spurgt elever på 70 ungdomsuddannelser om deres erfaringer med undervisning under Corona-krisen. Flere end 12.000 har svaret, og to…

Tid til at stoppe op

Vi har drevet den digitale udvikling frem i bedste mening. Vi har gjort investeringerne i en tro på fremskridtet, og vi har villet det bedste for vores børn….

Nye roller og opgaver for uddannelsesinstitutionerne

De interviewede respondenter peger på, hvor vigtigt det er i den tidlige fase, at de ansatte har mulighed for at arbejde med og afprøve de teknologier, de rent…

Selling tech to teachers: education trade shows as policy events

Digital technology is an expanding area of education policy. There is growing interest, therefore, in how networks of corporate and state policy actors implicit in the formation of…

Acting on the belief

The meaningful question isn’t whether these technologies work as advertised. It’s whether someone believes that they do, and acts on that belief. Adam Greenfield Quoted in Selwyn, N….

Digital Literacy

Recalling key tenets of theoretical debates about the term, I traced a gradual expansion of the concept’s range of address from reading and writing skills via communication in…

Educational amnesia

An accomplice for the continuing amnesia about the history of education is, surprisingly enough, educational research itself. Instead of asking – What do children need? What are our…

Novel and controversial proposals

One of the most fascinating yet elusive aspects of cultural change is the way certain ideals and arguments acquire an almost self-evident power at particular periods, just as…

Grit

Deliberate practice, operationally defined as studying and memorizing words while alone, better predicted performance in the National Spelling Bee than being quizzed by others or reading for pleasure….

Real life survey

More importantly still, the deeper issue of the actual feasibility of representing ‘real life’ problems in a survey format whilst retaining and not modifying the essential problem-setting characteristics…

Startled animals

I repeatedly noticed how hard it was for me to observe absence-in-class during group work: As soon as I left my position at the back of the classroom…

Tre analytiske distinktioner

Det er i dette lys, jeg foreslår, at vi introducerer tre analytiske distinktioner i forhold til evidensdiskursen: En skelnen mellem evidensbaseret og evidensinformeret viden gør det muligt at…

Kaninen er del af aktiviteten

(3) Målet må altid udløse aktiviteter. Begrebet ‘mål i sigte‘ er suggestivt, fordi det præsenterer bevidstheden for afslutningen eller konklusionen på en proces. Den eneste måde, hvorpå vi…

Udbygning af edb-kapacitet, 1983

Siden 1969 har udbygningen af edb-kapacitet for forskning og videregående uddannelse i Danmark fundet sted på grundlag af principper og forslag, der blev fremlagt i betænkning nr. 523…

Inadaptation

L’éducation, l’instruction n’ont plus aucune “gratuité”, doivent servir efficacement. Et toutes les critiques dirigées envers l’enseignement tournent toujours autour de ceci: “On apprend des quantités de choses inutiles….

7 undesirable consequences of algorithms

Counterserendipity Hyperfocus Self-amplifying cascades Skill erosion Perverse feedback Date deluge Monoculture Tenner, E. (2018). The Efficiency Paradox. Alfred A. Knopf

Edu-business

This chapter moves on from where the last left off. Here we look again into the world of multinational edu-business and begin to explore the buying and selling…

Déclencheurs de rêves

Les textes littéraires sont donc des déclencheurs de rêves éveillés, qui permettent de faire un retour sur, de prolonger, d’accompagner ou de préparer l’action. Loin d’être une activité…

Philosophical design

Abstract submitted to the “The Grammar of Things” conference in Darmstadt 2017.

To know an object is to act on it

To understand the development of knowledge we must start with an idea which seems central to me – the idea of an operation. Knowledge is not a copy…

World class

While the discourse of myth is about the denial or destruction of the past, the discourse of meaninglessness is about the ultimate in collateral damage: the destruction of…

Kritik af den digitale fornuft

April 2018 Kritik af den digitale fornuft i uddannelse handler om digitaliseringen af vores samfund, som den har udfoldet sig i de seneste årtier især inden for uddannelsesområdet. Bogen…

Passivity

This disregard for ‘passivity’ is, in my view, a philosophical deficiency. In Gerd Biesta’s work, for instance, we find a recent emphasis on passivity. Biesta writes that learning…

Levende leksikon

Hvad angår den frie kultivering af sindets kræfter, må det bemærkes, at den hele tiden står på. Den bør egentlig rette sig mod de højere kræfter. De lavere…

The Four-C model

Kaufman, J. C., Beghetto, R. A., Baer, J., & Ivcevic, Z. (2010). Creativity polymathy: What Benjamin Franklin can teach your kindergartener. Learning and Individual Differences, 20(4), 380–387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2009.10.001

Edb-teknologi og datalære, 1972

De sidste 15 års teknologiske udvikling inden for edb kan karakteriseres som særdeles markant; det gælder såvel materiel som programmel. Det ses bl.a. af udviklingen i antallet af…

AIed

Based on the combination of these models with data analytics and machine learning processes, Pearson’s proposed vision of AIed includes the development of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) which…

Impact on learning

Yet achieving any degree of confidence or certainty over a discernable ‘cause-and-effect’ relationship between technology and learning is nigh on impossible. Put simply, it has proved tremendously difficult…

Digital Demens

Opbygningen af hjernen gennem hele livet. Opadgående og nedadgående kurve (fremhævet i gråt), positive og negative faktorer.

Blindness in seeing

Should one have the ambition of scanning learning processes in situ and in actu in a school class for just one hour, it would not be enough to…

Lars Qvortrup 1983

“Hvis der skal udvikles datamatformidlede og datamatunderstøttende undervisningssystemer – og som sagt er de nationale demografiske argumenter herfor ikke stærke – så må minimumskravet være, at der etableres et udviklingsarbejde, hvor det er udviklingspsykologer, dannelsesteoretiekre, uddannelsessociologer, der fører det store ord, og hvor der hele tiden sikres en brugerdialog – med pædagoger og elever – med indbygget vetoret.

Two-headed hammer

No amount of technology will make a dent

I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I’ve had…