The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education

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What is 'critical' in critical studies of edtech? Three responses

Felicitas Macgilchrist

LEARNING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY (2021)

Article Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Dashboard stories: How narratives told by predictive analytics reconfigure roles, risk and sociality in education

Juliane Jarke et al.

Summary: This paper explores the impact of predictive analytics on education, with a focus on data dashboards of learning support systems based on Machine Learning. It emphasizes how predictive analytics write specific types of stories and embed them into data dashboards, influencing the perception of roles between teachers and students and driving the development of teaching practices.

BIG DATA & SOCIETY (2021)

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Why EdTech is always right: students, data and machines in pre-emptive configurations

Kevin Witzenberger et al.

Summary: Pre-emption in EdTech refers to an automated system that guides the present towards a desired future by utilizing knowledge from the past. This paper explores how students and EdTech work together to make pre-emption a normalized governance instrument. Despite excluding students and configuring them as absent, pre-emptive EdTech interventions have significant material consequences.

LEARNING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY (2021)

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The rise of education rentiers: digital platforms, digital data and rents

Janja Komljenovic

Summary: This article introduces the digitalization of the education sector driven by for-profit companies and discusses the potential transformations in the field. It also invites further research on the topic in the future.

LEARNING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY (2021)

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Psychodata: disassembling the psychological, economic, and statistical infrastructure of 'social-emotional learning'

Ben Williamson

Summary: Psychology and economics play crucial roles in contemporary governance, with social and emotional learning (SEL) emerging as a priority in education policies worldwide. The infrastructure of SEL, driven by psychologists, economists, and behavioral scientists, supported by various organizations, is producing policy-relevant knowledge and statistical data to shape SEL policies. The focus on SEL is translating socio-emotional indicators into predicted socio-economic outcomes, reinforcing the importance of psychological governance in education.

JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY (2021)

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