Bob Harrison
@bobharrisonedu.bsky.social
Retired Visiting Professor
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Do you influence strategy, policy, or culture in learning tech? Enter the ALT Leadership in Digital Education Award and be recognised for your vision. Deadline: 14 July. Learn more: buff.ly/jxEt2k0 #DigitalLeadership #ALTAwards2025 #altc
July 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Do you influence strategy, policy, or culture in learning tech? Enter the ALT Leadership in Digital Education Award and be recognised for your vision. Deadline: 14 July. Learn more: buff.ly/jxEt2k0 #DigitalLeadership #ALTAwards2025 #altc
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Our next CPD Webinar explores 'Top Tips on Student Guidance for the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Higher Education'. #altc Members are invited to join us on 9 July - Learn more: buff.ly/qvXGDvT
June 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Our next CPD Webinar explores 'Top Tips on Student Guidance for the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Higher Education'. #altc Members are invited to join us on 9 July - Learn more: buff.ly/qvXGDvT
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"Digital training opportunities should be made available to everyone so that you are providing a safe space to develop digital skills & digital literacy. Make your training accessible to TAs, admin & site staff, governors, students & parents" @ictevangelist.bsky.social @ollylewisedu.bsky.social 1/2
May 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"Digital training opportunities should be made available to everyone so that you are providing a safe space to develop digital skills & digital literacy. Make your training accessible to TAs, admin & site staff, governors, students & parents" @ictevangelist.bsky.social @ollylewisedu.bsky.social 1/2
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Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time. Spoiler alert. It doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time
Exclusive: education secretary exploring tools to compile student reports and assess writing and vocational skills
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March 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time. Spoiler alert. It doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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#ARLTSIG next event is part of their series on ‘Tackling racism in the Education and EdTech sector’. Matthew Johnson, the CEO of Race on the Agenda, one of Britain's leading anti-racist change drivers, joins us to explore how we can tackle systemic racism in the Education & EdTech sector.
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March 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“The EdTech bros will counter that they want to re-design schools around their tech. Their vision is to “replace entire functions of the teacher” with their “infinitely patient, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful” AI tutors.
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Meet the educational entrepreneurs who want to teach a new generation of Elon Musks
The billionaire's admirers and ex-employees have launched online schools and an “unapologetically elitist” AI tutor.
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March 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“The EdTech bros will counter that they want to re-design schools around their tech. Their vision is to “replace entire functions of the teacher” with their “infinitely patient, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful” AI tutors.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ALT & Echo360 invite you to join our upcoming webinar (9 April) on leveraging digital technologies to transform learning. Dr. Richard Nelson will guide us through University of Bradford’s transformative journey along their Digital Education Roadmap. Register now - go.alt.ac.uk/4iL9xa8 #altc
March 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ALT & Echo360 invite you to join our upcoming webinar (9 April) on leveraging digital technologies to transform learning. Dr. Richard Nelson will guide us through University of Bradford’s transformative journey along their Digital Education Roadmap. Register now - go.alt.ac.uk/4iL9xa8 #altc
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
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Episode 110 is out now. In this episode I share a preview of a new space I have created to share work in progress, a new project in the making, i.e. Long Distance Leadership Postcards, and reflect on progress with re-inventing Mondays. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
110 - The Percolator
Podcast Episode · Leading Virtual Teams with Dr Maren Deepwell · 14/03/2025 · 26m
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March 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Episode 110 is out now. In this episode I share a preview of a new space I have created to share work in progress, a new project in the making, i.e. Long Distance Leadership Postcards, and reflect on progress with re-inventing Mondays. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
Why Michaela Community School embodies the worst aspects of English Education.
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Why Michaela Community School embodies the worst aspects of English Education.
Blog 35. Katherine Birbalsingh has written in the Spectator a second time attacking Bridget Phillipson. James Whiting (SEA Secretary) critiques her Michaela project in a second post on the school.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Why Michaela Community School embodies the worst aspects of English Education.
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“Edtech exhibitions are futurist discourse dissemination forums. The discourse typical of BETT is that schooling must be “smarter”, with technologies elevated as solutions to all contemporary problems of a “broken” system of institutionalized education.”
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Ben Williamson on LinkedIn: Great edtech exhibitions as futuring events
30,000 people attended "the biggest education technology exhibition in the world” last month - I was one of them.
What I learned about the edtech future of…
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February 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“Edtech exhibitions are futurist discourse dissemination forums. The discourse typical of BETT is that schooling must be “smarter”, with technologies elevated as solutions to all contemporary problems of a “broken” system of institutionalized education.”
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“Unfortunately, in many ways, AI is quietly automating educational inequity, exacerbating the school-to-prison nexus, further reinforcing tracking and within-school segregation, and creating “synthetic” gaps in achievement and opportunity”
“Unfortunately, in many ways, AI is quietly automating educational inequity, exacerbating the school-to-prison nexus, further reinforcing tracking and within-school segregation, and creating “synthetic” gaps in achievement and opportunity”
Bugs Bots & Algorithmic Bias: Examining the Power and Peril of AI in Education
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
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February 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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“Unfortunately, in many ways, AI is quietly automating educational inequity, exacerbating the school-to-prison nexus, further reinforcing tracking and within-school segregation, and creating “synthetic” gaps in achievement and opportunity”
“Unfortunately, in many ways, AI is quietly automating educational inequity, exacerbating the school-to-prison nexus, further reinforcing tracking and within-school segregation, and creating “synthetic” gaps in achievement and opportunity”
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#AI will not save us from greedy billionaires
It will not prevent greed
It will not solve man's inhumanity to man
Only people can do that. We all have a part to play.
#justsaying
It will not prevent greed
It will not solve man's inhumanity to man
Only people can do that. We all have a part to play.
#justsaying
February 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#AI will not save us from greedy billionaires
It will not prevent greed
It will not solve man's inhumanity to man
Only people can do that. We all have a part to play.
#justsaying
It will not prevent greed
It will not solve man's inhumanity to man
Only people can do that. We all have a part to play.
#justsaying
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“In this paper, we argue that there still is no sign of a revolution of AI in education, only in the media and corporate outlets. “
“In this paper, we argue that there still is no sign of a revolution of AI in education, only in the media and corporate outlets. “
(PDF) The commodification of education and the (generative) AI-induced scam-like culture
PDF | Learning is hard, mastery takes time, and time ripens all things. This may seem appalling in an age where instant gratification offers quick ways... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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February 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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“In this paper, we argue that there still is no sign of a revolution of AI in education, only in the media and corporate outlets. “
“In this paper, we argue that there still is no sign of a revolution of AI in education, only in the media and corporate outlets. “
www.gov.uk/government/p...
“Generative AI tools can make certain written tasks quicker and easier, but it cannot replace the judgement and deep subject knowledge of a human expert.”
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education
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January 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“Generative AI tools can make certain written tasks quicker and easier, but it cannot replace the judgement and deep subject knowledge of a human expert.”
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Following the publication of our paper 'A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review' in JUTLP, @dralison.bsky.social and I are very happy to share that two associated infographics are now available to download with a CC licence.
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January 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Following the publication of our paper 'A Decade of Social Media for Learning: A Systematic Review' in JUTLP, @dralison.bsky.social and I are very happy to share that two associated infographics are now available to download with a CC licence.
doi.org/10.53761/vvv...
doi.org/10.53761/vvv...
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“The weight of the available evidence suggests that the current wholesale adoption of unregulated AI applications in schools poses a grave danger to democratic civil society and to individual freedom and liberty.”
“The weight of the available evidence suggests that the current wholesale adoption of unregulated AI applications in schools poses a grave danger to democratic civil society and to individual freedom and liberty.”
Time for a Pause: Without Effective Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good.
Ignoring their own well-publicized calls to regulate AI development and to pause implementation of its applications, major technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta are racing to fend o...
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December 20, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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“The weight of the available evidence suggests that the current wholesale adoption of unregulated AI applications in schools poses a grave danger to democratic civil society and to individual freedom and liberty.”
“The weight of the available evidence suggests that the current wholesale adoption of unregulated AI applications in schools poses a grave danger to democratic civil society and to individual freedom and liberty.”
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Hear, hear Bob!
Like all other learning technology innovation, #AI use must be grounded in established #FE pedagogy and introduced in collaboration with - or preferably led by - expert educator and learner voices.
#UKFE #AmplifyFE #EduSky #EdTech
Like all other learning technology innovation, #AI use must be grounded in established #FE pedagogy and introduced in collaboration with - or preferably led by - expert educator and learner voices.
#UKFE #AmplifyFE #EduSky #EdTech
December 15, 2024 at 4:55 PM