Education Technology Society

Neil Selwyn
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Education Technology Society

Casting a critical eye over the world of digital education, education futures and EdTech.   Join Neil Selwyn as he talks to experts from around the world committed to new ways of thinking about digital technology and education

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Reading in the digital age

    Digital books are now a common part of education, but concerns are growing around the problems of students reading on-screen.Marte Blikstad-Balas (University of Oslo) discusses the latest research around what it means to read on-screen as opposed to reading from ‘proper’ books, and why government bans on digital devices are not the best response.Accompanying reference >>> Jensen, R., Roe, A. & Blikstad-Balas, M. (2024). The smell of paper or the shine of a screen? Students’ readi...

    15 min

  2. 12/09/2024

    Australia thinks that it can ban young people from using social media … we have questions!

    The Australian government has just announced that it will ban all young people under the age of 16 from using social media.Dr. Clare Southerton explains the background to this ‘ban’ and what it might mean for students and schools.Recommended reading >>> Lisa Given (2024). Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery. The Conversation, 28th November.

    17 min

  3. 12/03/2024

    ‘Nudging’ students to do the right thing

    Digital technologies are now a key means of ‘nudging’ students (and teachers) to make better decisions. Mathias Decuypere (PHZH) talks about the coming together of behavioural economics thinking and digital education, and how critical ed-tech scholars should be looking for alternate ways of working with this concept of the ‘edunudge’. Accompanying reference >>> Mathias Decuypere & Sigrid Hartong (2023) Edunudge. Learning, Media and Technology, 48(1):138-152

    20 min

  4. 11/23/2024

    The challenges of studying in the ‘platformised’ university

    University life is now increasingly mediated by digital platforms. Joe Noteboom’s research looks at the everyday realities of studying through platforms, and how students’ dependence on these technologies can lead to a number of problems and vulnerabilities. Accompanying reference >>> Joe Noteboom (2024): The student as user: mapping student experiences of platformisation in higher education, Learning, Media and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2414055

    19 min

  5. 10/29/2024

    Raising a generation of techno-skeptical students

    Dan Krutka (University of North Texas) is on a mission to support students, teachers and parents to think critically and make informed decisions about the digital tech in their lives.Dan talks about the idea of the ‘Technoskepticism Iceberg’ as a framework to identify the technical, psychosocial and political dimensions of technology.Accompanying reference >>> Pleasants, J., Krutka, D., & Nichols, T. (2023). What relationships do we want with technology? Toward technoskepti...

    19 min

  6. 10/06/2024

    Students ‘cheating’ with Generative AI

    Two years on from the initial panic around Chat GPT and student cheating we catch with Phill Dawson from Deakin’s ‘Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning’.Phill reflects on what universities have got wrong in their responses to GenAI, and why this might be a good time to entirely rethink the notion of student assessment altogether.Accompanying reference >>> Bearman, M., Tai, J., Dawson, P., Boud, D., & Ajjawi, R. (2024). Developing evaluative judgement for a...

    16 min

  7. 09/12/2024

    What’s the problem with Google Classroom?

    We talk with Sonia Livingstone (Digital Futures for Children, LSE) about the ways in which EdTech and data protection policies often fail to protect children’s rights at school. In particular we look at Google Classroom as an example of how policymakers, regulators and governments need to intervene more forcibly in the EdTech marketplace. Accompanying reference >>> Livingstone, S., Pothong, K., Atabey, A., Hooper, L., & Day, E. (2024). The Googlization of the clas...

    19 min

  8. 06/10/2024

    ‘Digital natives’ … the concept that refuses to die

    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’, why the persistence of the idea is damaging, and how we need to actively campaign against its future use.** this is the final episode of Season One of ETS ... we will return in September! ** Accompanying reference >>> Mertala, P.,...

    18 min
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Casting a critical eye over the world of digital education, education futures and EdTech.   Join Neil Selwyn as he talks to experts from around the world committed to new ways of thinking about digital technology and education

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  • Creator
    Neil Selwyn
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    24
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    © 2025 Education Technology Society
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