Stephen Gow
@steviegow.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow - Student use of AI at Edinburgh Napier University. Academic Integrity, Assessment, AI. Music loving, nature loving mountain biker.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... - our universities struggle, staff and students suffer, yet these guys are swimming in Scrooge McDuck-esque pools of profit....
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... - our universities struggle, staff and students suffer, yet these guys are swimming in Scrooge McDuck-esque pools of profit....
@emilyehoyle.substack.com fascinating lecture at York yesterday Emily. Wondered whether you have come across Cyberselfish www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-bors... and also the discourse on techbros either misunderstanding or trying make dystopian scifi real?: www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech....
Paulina Borsook Saw Tech Fascism Coming
"Cyberselfish" author interviewed on Nerd Reich podcast
www.thenerdreich.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@emilyehoyle.substack.com fascinating lecture at York yesterday Emily. Wondered whether you have come across Cyberselfish www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-bors... and also the discourse on techbros either misunderstanding or trying make dystopian scifi real?: www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech....
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day... What “Smart” Really Means:
“Smart” often implies a lack of control
“Cheap” signifies compromised security
“Convenience” often involves hidden surveillance
The Golden Rule:
Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices
Treat them as strangers in your home
“Smart” often implies a lack of control
“Cheap” signifies compromised security
“Convenience” often involves hidden surveillance
The Golden Rule:
Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices
Treat them as strangers in your home
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it.
The Beginning: A Curious Experiment
It all started ...
codetiger.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day... What “Smart” Really Means:
“Smart” often implies a lack of control
“Cheap” signifies compromised security
“Convenience” often involves hidden surveillance
The Golden Rule:
Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices
Treat them as strangers in your home
“Smart” often implies a lack of control
“Cheap” signifies compromised security
“Convenience” often involves hidden surveillance
The Golden Rule:
Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices
Treat them as strangers in your home
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social you may want to check these out Yanis - pretty sure this is not you on this channel: youtu.be/GRXKavRIBN8?... - 16:15 you seem to develop a Canadian accent!
Nadikudi Nadine
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social you may want to check these out Yanis - pretty sure this is not you on this channel: youtu.be/GRXKavRIBN8?... - 16:15 you seem to develop a Canadian accent!
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"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...
Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms
This article examines the rise of platform bureaucratization in highly digitalized classrooms. Drawing on an ethnographic study in a Swedish lower secondary school, we examine how teachers and stud...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...
youtu.be/aByWLQ7h2n0 #aiappeasment anyone? I can't even trust myself not to get distracted when working online - if my kids are on a laptop trying to do homework most of the time I check, they are doing something else. If they have a book/paper exercise, they happily get on with it...
How Big Tech Uses YOUR Kids’ Classrooms To Sell THEIR Products
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
youtu.be/aByWLQ7h2n0 #aiappeasment anyone? I can't even trust myself not to get distracted when working online - if my kids are on a laptop trying to do homework most of the time I check, they are doing something else. If they have a book/paper exercise, they happily get on with it...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... @kaiserkuo.bsky.social - sure you know this story already but worth a read - a parallel narrative to Feifei Li's excellent autobiography...love the thought of fire side salons keeping the intellectual embers going during the Cultural Revolution...
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... @kaiserkuo.bsky.social - sure you know this story already but worth a read - a parallel narrative to Feifei Li's excellent autobiography...love the thought of fire side salons keeping the intellectual embers going during the Cultural Revolution...
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Two Dancers, 1949, by Salvador Dali
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Two Dancers, 1949, by Salvador Dali
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“Educational technology has become, in its ontological infrastructures, increasingly centralised, less open and more powerful. Through GenAI, it is less truthful, less trustworthy and more epistemologically nihilistic.”
@eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Authoritarian EdTech - Eamon Costello, Stephen Gow, 2025
Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...
journals.sagepub.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“Educational technology has become, in its ontological infrastructures, increasingly centralised, less open and more powerful. Through GenAI, it is less truthful, less trustworthy and more epistemologically nihilistic.”
@eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our open-access AIED commentary is out
"Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings"
🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald
open-publishing.org/journals/ind...
"Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings"
🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald
open-publishing.org/journals/ind...
Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings
| Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
open-publishing.org
September 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Our open-access AIED commentary is out
"Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings"
🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald
open-publishing.org/journals/ind...
"Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings"
🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald
open-publishing.org/journals/ind...
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Beginning to put some details on my visit to NZ in November for #ISSOTL. Going to spend a bit of time in Aus too. Anyone want me to come visit and talk about our work? Hidden Curriculum, belonging, assessment and curriculum design…
July 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Beginning to put some details on my visit to NZ in November for #ISSOTL. Going to spend a bit of time in Aus too. Anyone want me to come visit and talk about our work? Hidden Curriculum, belonging, assessment and curriculum design…
@davidmusgrave.bsky.social Enjoyed your INRAP session today, then found this: "...if the economy can't tell that we swapped out a human with an AI, well, that's what AGI is." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/agi-beyond...
AGI Beyond the Buzz: What Is It, and Are We Ready?
Aza Raskin and Randima Fernando.
centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@davidmusgrave.bsky.social Enjoyed your INRAP session today, then found this: "...if the economy can't tell that we swapped out a human with an AI, well, that's what AGI is." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/agi-beyond...
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When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely
May 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely
An absolute must watch: youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... - we need to end Technological Appeasement.
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
youtu.be
April 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
An absolute must watch: youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... - we need to end Technological Appeasement.
Join the excellent Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier - two full-time Academic Skills Advisers. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...
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jobs.napier.ac.uk
April 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Join the excellent Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier - two full-time Academic Skills Advisers. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...
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Good morning. To foreshadow a project at KIng's where we are collecting examples from across faculties of modified assessments I have begun collecting a few from elsewhere. Is it about AI or is it just about better assessment? Some are former; some the latter I think. mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/a...
But how? And why even? Practical examples of ways assessments have been modified
Modifying or changing assessment ‘because of AI’ always feels like it feeds ‘us and them’ narratives of a forthcoming apocalypse (already predicted) and couches the change a…
mcompton.uk
March 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Good morning. To foreshadow a project at KIng's where we are collecting examples from across faculties of modified assessments I have begun collecting a few from elsewhere. Is it about AI or is it just about better assessment? Some are former; some the latter I think. mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/a...
www.studentxgenai.co.uk/genai-digest... - some useful GenAI and education resources so far this year.
GenAI Digest February 2025 — StudentX GenAI
Early GenAI 2025.
www.studentxgenai.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
www.studentxgenai.co.uk/genai-digest... - some useful GenAI and education resources so far this year.
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Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
February 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
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A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j...
#Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j...
#Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw
Judge Rules Against Fair Use Defense for AI Company - Plagiarism Today
A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j...
#Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j...
#Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw
academicintegrity.org/resources/bl...
My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity
My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity
If integrity is what we do when no-one is watching - what are the implications of a tool like Grammarly Authorship?
The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) cultivates. integrity in academic communities throughout the world to promote ethical institutions and societies. ICAI offers assessment services...
academicintegrity.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
academicintegrity.org/resources/bl...
My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity
My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity