Tag: 2019

Technically precocious boy

We examine the work that these imaginaries do for projects such as OLPC by evoking deeply held feelings about the value of (certain types of) play, creativity, and…

Rotting brains & square eyes

This paper will explore some of the pressing issues regarding children’s use of technology. For example, do outcomes depend on the quality of media consumed, or is all…

Kreativitet og virkelyst

Digitale teknologier indeholder et potentiale for udfoldelse af børn, unge og voksnes kreativitet og virkelyst. Ved at sætte fokus på digitalt design og elevernes kreative processer med at…

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…

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…

Chaperone in the iPhone

Paper presented at a master class with Evan Selinger at the university of Roskilde in 2019. For the last four decades, political institutions have made a dramatic push…

Unplugged approaches

In today’s highly digitalized world, we often associate computational problem-solving processes with the use of computers. Yet, solving problems computationally by designing solutions and processing data is not…

Our review of the evidence

…clearly demonstrates that, on average:– Online education is the fastest-growing segment of higher education and its growth is overrepresented in the for-profit sector.– A wide range of audiences…

Belæg for forhåbninger

Studierne inden for tematikken om digitale læringsplatforme og elevers læring peger dog også på en række centrale udfordringer i forhold til at udnytte de potentialer, der er forbundet…

From fake news to junk news

The creation of a standardised market for online publics and its expansion to the long tail of the Web; the quantification of engagement through metrics of clicking and…

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…

Dannelse i et digitaliseret samfund

Der er stort samfundsmæssigt fokus på de såkaldte STEM uddannelser (Science, Technology, Engineering og Mathematics), og en fortsat udvikling af det digitale samfund sættes ofte lig med fokuserede…

What’s not to like?

Antallet af likes handler ofte om mere end, hvor mange der egentlig ’synes godt om’ nogen eller noget. Mange likes er et kraftigt signal til algoritmer om, at…

Where is the theory?

Critics often characterise the study of educational technology as under-theorised. To test this assertion and to determine the extent of this criticism, the present paper reports an in-depth…

Le discours educapital

On peut resumer celle-ci en quelques points, qui se retrouvent en filigrane dans la plupart des discours des marchands d’éducation, articulant dogme libéral et neutralisation de toute forme…

Issues/Concerns

From a lecture by Wendell Wallach at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (2019): https://vums-web.villanova.edu/Mediasite/Play/398be2773c1b47d29919dbc4a72544ed1d

Promissory data

As I realized that there was a lack of empirical support for The Graphic, I took the opportunity during a conference break to remark to a speechwriter for…

Realising the potential of technology in education

Yet all too often technology initiatives have failed to deliver value for money and, crucially, failed to have a positive impact. We know that not all education settings…

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….

Dark pattern & manipulation

Jesper Balslev, lektor ved Københavns Erhvervsakademi, introducerer et eksperiment med en radikaliserende Facebookalgoritme og præsenterer teorier om, hvordan såkaldte dark patterns eller designet manipulation kan skabe negative sociale…

Not born to read

Let’s begin with a deceptively simple fact that has inspired my work on the reading brain over the last decade and move from there: human beings were never…

Behind the Screen

At this point in our conversation, Melinda’s partner dipped back into the darkened living room in which we were meeting and chimed in with her own summation, based…

Assembly lines for the spirit

Contrary to the expectations of the Italian autonomist theorists—who foresaw the coming of emancipatory futuristic feudalism, with its cognitive workers reclaiming the means of production while watching capitalists…

Projekt genopLIFE truet

4. Maj. 2028: Det ambitiøse forskningsprogram “genopLIFE™” – som er internationalt førende indenfor genoplivningsteknologi – er truet efter en nylig rapport udgivet af det digitalt-etiske råd.

Le prolétariat du clic

Si ces analyses semblent encore pertinentes, c’est parce que le capitalisme des plateformes a abondamment recours à la même vieille ruse qu’utilisaient les propriétaires manufacturiers du siècle passé:…

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…

Cybernetic pedagogy?

I’m pretty happy to have gotten this website up and running. It has become a cognitive prosthetic of great value to me – first of all because I…

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…

Le design de la visibilité

Aussi dans: Cardon, D. (2019). Culture Numérique. SciencesPo Les Presses.

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…

Quatre familles d’algorithmes

Cardon, D. (2019). Culture Numérique. SciencesPo Les Presses.

Goodhart’s law

Goodhart’s law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”[1]One way…

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