Opinion or editorial blog entries from members and other scholars

Opinion or editorial blog entries from members and other scholars

Mythbusters: “digital natives” is a zombie idea

This is the script of my short segment for the “mythbusters” episode of Meet the Education Researcher. A brief rant about “digital...

Mechanical induction and heuristics in AI: upon opening the black box and finding it...

This post, published to coincide with the launch of the Monash Data Futures Institute, is part of a series on AI...

Through the technological looking glass: Connecting primary school students to opera

Dr Renee Crawford - Senior Lecturer, Music Education. Faculty of Education. Monash University. Introducing school...

What if I could predict your future from the colour of your shoes?

From Janine Arantes This post is part of a short series based on a a day-long symposium on...

Early years online … the rise of ‘virtual pre-school’

Recent controversy over virtual pre-school provision raises broader questions over what priorities and values are driving our education systems.

Julian Sefton-Green: this changes everything! What does “the digital” mean for the purposes and...

By Julian Sefton-Green February 2019 saw DER host a day-long symposium on ‘digital education futures’.  A number of ideas...

Datafication and education: some thoughts from the crowd

February 2019 saw DER host a day-long symposium on ‘digital education futures’. The day ended with a 60 minute ‘feed forward’ session, where participants...

The teacher as social media celebrity … the downsides of being ‘edu-famous’?

Neil Selwyn comments on the growing prominence of teachers achieving social media 'celebrity' status ... 

Google’s TensorFlow and the “democratization” of artificial intelligence: what does it mean for education?

By Carlo Perrotta Featured image by Daniel Friedman This post is part of a series on machine learning (applied AI) in education. The previous posts are...

The future of EdTech in schools … just look at what they are doing...

2018 saw regular news reports of what were presented as clever, crazy and/or creepy tech developments in Chinese schools. In this opinion piece, Neil Selwyn argues that we shouldn't be fooled into thinking that these types of technology are unique to China. Instead, we need to ask why we are not seeing the same sort of media interest being shown about similar practices in the West.