TY - BLOG TI - E-waste and planned obsolescence AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY AB - Notes from Guardian report (15.04.20) by John Harris on e-waste and planned obsolescence ** There is a pressing need to talk about educational technology in terms of the disposal – rather than adop… DA - 2021/07/31/T20:56:24+00:00 PY - 2021 LA - en UR - https://criticaledtech.com/2021/08/01/e-waste-and-planned-obsolescence/ Y2 - 2022/04/12/15:04:27 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - Learning, Media and Technology AB - This paper outlines how ideas of ‘degrowth’ might be used to reimagine sustainable forms of education technology. In essence, degrowth calls for a proactive renewal of technology use around goals of voluntary simplicity and slowing-down, community-based coproduction and sharing, alongside conscious minimalization of resource consumption. The paper considers how core degrowth principles of conviviality, commoning, autonomy and care have been used to develop various forms of ‘radically sustainable computing’. The paper then suggests four ways in which degrowth principles might frame future thinking around education technology in terms of: (i) curtailing current manipulative forms of education technology, (ii) bolstering existing convivial forms of education technology; (iii) stimulating the development of new convivial education technologies; and (iv) developing digital technologies to achieve the eventual de-schooling of society. It is concluded that mobilisation of these ideas might support a much-needed reorientation of digital technology in education along low-impact, equitable lines. DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 DO - 10.1080/17439884.2022.2159978 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM IS - 0 SP - 1 EP - 14 SN - 1743-9884 ST - Digital degrowth UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2159978 Y2 - 2023/11/06/17:33:13 KW - Degrowth KW - Illich KW - digital KW - education KW - sustainability ER - TY - JOUR TI - Using participatory design approaches in educational research AU - Cumbo, Bronwyn AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - International Journal of Research & Method in Education AB - Educational researchers are showing a growing interest in Participatory Design (PD) and other collaborative co-design approaches. This paper considers the ways in which education researchers considering PD can benefit from drawing on the approach’s heritage in the 1970s’ Scandinavian ‘cooperative inquiry’ tradition. In particular, the paper highlights four core principles from the Scandinavian tradition, i.e.: the pursuit of socio-ethical outcomes, sustained consideration of what constitutes ‘participation’ and ‘practice’, and PD as a design process. While positioning these principles in school-based research is not easy, the paper considers how this has been achieved within the field of child-computer-interaction – an area of research that is also often conducted with children in educational institutions. While remaining mindful of the institutional constraints of school-based research, we argue that these Scandinavian principles can be borrowed and built upon by educational researchers – thereby extending the scope and ambitions of educational PD research. DA - 2022/01/01/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.1080/1743727X.2021.1902981 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 45 IS - 1 SP - 60 EP - 72 SN - 1743-727X UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2021.1902981 Y2 - 2023/10/12/18:32:28 KW - Participatory methods KW - Scandinavian tradition KW - co-design KW - educational research KW - participatory design ER - TY - BOOK TI - Is Technology Good for Education? AU - Selwyn, Neil AB - Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’. Is Technology Good For Education? offers a critical counterpoint to this received wisdom, challenging some of the central ways in which digital technology is presumed to be positively affecting education. Instead Neil Selwyn considers what is being lost as digital technologies become ever more integral to education provision and engagement. Crucially, he questions the values, agendas and interests that stand to gain most from the rise of digital education. This concise, up-to-the-minute analysis concludes by considering alternate approaches that might be capable of rescuing and perhaps revitalizing the ideals of public education, while not denying the possibilities of digital technology altogether. CY - Cambridge DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 SP - 80 LA - en PB - Polity Press SN - 978-0-7456-9650-8 KW - Social Science / Popular Culture KW - Social Science / Sociology / General KW - ___working_potential_duplicate KW - auto_merged ER - TY - JOUR TI - Minding our language: why education and technology is full of bullshit … and what might be done about it AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - Learning, Media and Technology DA - 2016/07/02/ PY - 2016 DO - 10.1080/17439884.2015.1012523 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 41 IS - 3 SP - 437 EP - 443 SN - 1743-9884 ST - Minding our language UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2015.1012523 Y2 - 2019/09/20/13:22:37 KW - ___working_potential_duplicate ER - TY - JOUR TI - Minding our language: why education and technology is full of bull**** … and what might be done about it AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - Learning, Media and Technology DA - 2016/07/02/ PY - 2016 DO - 10.1080/17439884.2015.1012523 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 41 IS - 3 SP - 437 EP - 443 SN - 1743-9884 ST - Minding our language UR - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Minding-our-language%3A-why-education-and-technology-Selwyn/a0a187c5de0e7246d58df95e8e9c6f779a5566e3 Y2 - 2019/09/20/13:22:37 KW - ___working_potential_duplicate ER - TY - JOUR TI - Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - E-Learning and Digital Media AB - Despite climate heating and rising ecological instability, environmental issues feature rarely in discussions of educational technology. Most commentators presume the continued unfettered use of digital education resources bolstered by occasional claims that emerging technologies might support the ?greening? of school and university provision. In contrast to such business-as-usual complacency, this article anticipates ongoing environmental degradation of the planet as radically upending the continued expansion of digital technologies in education. On the one hand, depletion of natural resources and energy curtailments might put paid to established ?abundant? forms of digital technology use. On the other hand, more frequent climate-related disasters might necessitate emergency forms of education for displaced and unsettled populations. As such, the article argues for a new paradigm of educational technology that is both wholly sustainable and targeted towards displaced and disadvantaged populations. The article considers a number of ways that such an ?Ed-Tech Within Limits? might be pursued ? outlining fundamental shifts in thinking necessary to reorient educational technology along environmentally concerned lines. DA - 2021/09/01/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1177/20427530211022951 DP - SAGE Journals VL - 18 IS - 5 SP - 496 EP - 510 LA - en SN - 2042-7530 ST - Ed-Tech Within Limits UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/20427530211022951 Y2 - 2022/11/16/06:56:32 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Ten suggestions for improving academic research in education and technology AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - Learning, Media and Technology DA - 2012/09/01/ PY - 2012 DO - 10.1080/17439884.2012.680213 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 37 IS - 3 SP - 213 EP - 219 SN - 1743-9884 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2012.680213 Y2 - 2019/09/20/13:15:20 ER - TY - BOOK TI - Defining the Digital Divide: Developing a Theoretical Understanding of Inequalities in the Information Age AU - Selwyn, Neil CY - Cardiff DA - 2002/03/21/ PY - 2002 DP - Amazon SP - 60 LA - English PB - Cardiff University School of Social Sciences SN - 978-1-872330-96-9 ST - Defining the Digital Divide ER - TY - JOUR TI - Data entry: towards the critical study of digital data and education AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - Learning, Media & Technology AB - The generation and processing of data through digital technologies is an integral element of contemporary society, as reflected in recent debates over online data privacy, ‘Big Data’ and the rise of data mining and analytics in business, science and government. This paper outlines the significance of digital data within education, arguing for increased interest in the topic from educational researchers. Building on themes from the emerging sub-field of ‘digital sociology’, the paper outlines a number of ways in which digital data in education could be questioned along social lines. These include issues of data inequalities, the role of data in managerialist modes of organisation and control, the rise of so-called ‘dataveillance' and the reductionist nature of data-based representation. The paper concludes with a set of suggestions for future research and discussion, thus outlining the beginnings of a framework for the future critical study of digital data and education. DA - 2015b PY - 2015b DO - 10.1080/17439884.2014.921628 DP - ResearchGate VL - 40 IS - 1 SP - 64 EP - 82 J2 - Learning ST - Data entry ER - TY - JOUR TI - Digital Technology and the Futures of Education: Towards ‘Non-Stupid’ Optimism AU - Facer, Keri AU - Selwyn, Neil DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DP - research.monash.edu LA - English ST - Digital Technology and the Futures of Education UR - https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/digital-technology-and-the-futures-of-education-towards-non-stupi Y2 - 2022/09/09/11:03:18 KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER - TY - CHAP TI - Technology and education – Why it's crucial to be critical AU - Selwyn, Neil T2 - Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education A2 - Bulfin, S. A2 - Johnson, N.F. A2 - Rowan, L. CY - Basingstoke and St. Martins, New York DA - 2015/// PY - 2015 SP - 245 EP - 255 PB - Palgrave Macmillan UR - https://www.academia.edu/7771394/Technology_and_education_-_why_its_crucial_to_be_critical ER -