A big question looms over generative AI: what really is its impact on the environment? I spent months investigating a single campus of Microsoft data centers in the Arizona desert - designated in part for OpenAI - in an attempt to find out. Thread. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Latest post on srheblog.com from The SRHE Digital University Network: A Decade of Trends and Future Directions by Katy Jordan Janja Komljenovic Jeremy Knox check it out here srheblog.com/2024/02/06/the…

Thought-provoking panel session from these colleagues thinking about past, present and future of #AIEd critical studies and how studies might help shape fairer education systems Maha Bali, PhD مها بالي 🌵🇵🇸 @GulsonKalervo Jeremy Knox selena Elisabeth Sylvan PhD Antonia Wulff Wayne Holmes

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For a SI in B Jl Sociology of Ed (soon to be announced on the BJSE website), we are looking for contributions discussing AI and education. Please do reach out to me or my co-editors, Rebecca Eynon, Jeremy Knox , and Neil Selwyn if you have any questions. We look forward to your abstracts!

The Oxford scholarship inspired by the story of the Chōshū Five, a group of young Japanese Samurai who undertook the treacherous sea journey to England in 1863.

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1/2 On the weight of clouds.
If data centres are a heavy weight to carry on, an ethical approach to AI and data in education should consider it.
Or, AIEd tools could be in huge contraddiction with a sustainable view of education.
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I am looking forward to another in-person talk, this one at the University of Manchester China Institute (Manchester China Institute), for those who are nearby and interested in attending.
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This new book on algorithms, automation and AI in education has been a couple of years in the making, with about 30 colleagues contributing, so it's great to finally get hands on a copy. It's one for the libraries to buy - or preview our intro chapter free taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…

Labour says it would use AI to spot trends in absence, as part of plans to tackle spiralling non-attendance. The party hopes AI would help to join up existing records for children to improve coordination between education, social care+wider services

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.The Labour Party says it would use AI to identify trends in pupil absence, improving coordination between education, social care and the wider services that support families
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In their article on data-driven EdTech Jeremy Knox critically examines current debates on #EthicalAI to challenge 'narrow sets of universal guidelines and principles as the accepted means of ‘engineering away’ ethical concerns'.

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I think its interesting that many providers of data-driven platforms and services claim to place learners front and centre, e.g. 'personalising' or 'adaptive' software. Promotion of data in education often seems to be 'against the institution'? #cidedata

'Meanings' are open to interpretation, multiple outcomes, and messiness, whereas data promises objectivity, precision, and efficiency. That is perhaps the appeal of the 'big data' imaginary. But we also might find what people 'do' valuable for research? #cidedata

And perhaps rather old-fashioned educational theory in the form of radical behaviourism. Is there any form of data-driven practice that can avoid the foundational focus on behaviour (via clicks in a software programme)? #cidedata

Is there a link between the datafication and the vocationalisation of education? #cidedata

Good point here - 'speak for themselves' seem to imply that data are objectively accurate and truthful, and therefore don't require any questioning about how they were produced. That seems like a troubling thing to assume in education #cidedata