Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY

News media in Australia is beginning to respond to various state government plans to drastically decrease the amount of time that school students are allowed to spend on digital devices each day.

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Regardless of how it is packaged, the main goal of ‘digital literacy’ is helping people make more use of digital technology.

Nearly four years on after the introduction of ChatGPT into schools, we are beginning to see signs that GenAI is starting to lose its lustre.

Tech critics occasionally refer to GenAI as ‘digital asbestos’ – i.e. harmful material that we will be spending years trying to purge from our digital ecosystems (what might also be termed the task of de-sloppification).

The summertime is traditionally known as the ‘silly season’ for news media – a time when quirkier, niche stories can make it to press.

The scope of what schools plausibly might want to know about their students is surprisingly wide.

As part of the promotion for the Spanish translation of my Digital Degrowth book I got asked some questions for an education newspaper.

With the backlash against digital technology in schools gaining momentum, how can public faith be restored in ed-tech?

[Op-ed piece offered to newspapers in the January ‘back-to-school’ cycle.

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It is two years on from many Australian states announcing school smartphone bans.