Opinion or editorial blog entries from members and other scholars

Opinion or editorial blog entries from members and other scholars

When good pedagogy is only one of many possible ways to teach

When good pedagogy is only one of many possible ways to teach: How harnessing insights from behavioural science can improve teaching and learning practice. Author...
Computer Knight

Do we need to defend Assessment from Artificial Intelligence?

Michael Henderson - @mjhenderson - Professor of Digital Futures, and Director of the Educational Design and Innovation Research Hub in the Faculty of Education...

How Amazon operates in education

This post was originally published in Code Acts in Education. Ben Williamson, Kalervo N. Gulson, Carlo Perrotta and Kevin Witzenberger The global ‘big tech’ company Amazon...

Monash’s Faculty of Education (and the DER group) and Padova University (UNIPD) partner up!

As researchers and educators, we often feel ambivalent towards the constant emphasis on impact that dominates many discussions in the academy. We understand that...

Algorithmic bias and fairness in education: a (very brief) primer

Carlo Perrotta   Algorithmic bias, understood as the tendency of computational systems to reflect the biases that contaminate...

Emergency Ed-Tech

  One key ‘essential’ use of technology in education over the next few decades might well be for crisis situations. This was certainly...

Facing up to the dilemma of sustainable digital futures

How can we balance our desire to help all young people become actively engaged in digital lifestyles, with the long-term environmental unsustainability of current technology use?

Remote schooling and the rise of alternate ‘teachers’

Many students have come into contact with a wide range of other ‘teachers’ during their remote schooling. Tellingly, many of these extra-curricular services might well persist into how some families choose to engage with schooling in the future. If so, what might this mean for traditional schools and what we perceive as the ‘teaching profession?

The perils of algorithmic assessment

Critics have long highlighted the tendency for data-driven systems to reinforce disadvantage and oppression in most public services – from housing to the criminal justice system. There is little reason to expect our school systems and educational data science to be any different.

Colour-blind learning analytics improve the success of marginalised groups. What’s not to like?

Carlo Perrotta  Featured image: Edited cover illustration to the "Complete Version of ye Three Blind Mice" from the Library of Congress. From Stuart Rankin on...