The RED team is happy to be hosting three events as part of the international series of events on “problematising education and digital technology”, initiated by Neil Selwyn and colleagues at Oxford.
Our events are taking place on Thursday 20 February and Friday 21 February. Feel free to reach out, if you would like to participate. We may still have a few free spaces. Each event explores four questions, each event is face-to-face, each event is focused on talking, sharing, inter-thinking. (No presentations, no slides, no flights!) We will be thinking about:
#1. What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround EdTech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions?
#2. What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality?
#3. What does the political economy of EdTech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does EdTech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’?
#4. What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local push-back and resistance against egregious forms of EdTech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures?
More information on the Gothenburg meet-up here: https://www.credtech.se/en/cset2025
More on Oldenburg here (in German): https://relab.uol.de/2024/11/06/cset2025-oldenburg/
More on Buenos Aires here:
Local meet-ups will each capture their key responses to the questions, which will feed into an international report on critical studies of education and technology (CSET) that collates ideas from across the local meet-ups.