Education Technology Society
Episodes
Better AI in education … is regulation the answer?
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with legal expert Liane Colonna (Stockholm University) about the EU ‘AI Act’ and what it means for the use of AI in education. To what ex...
What values should be driving the EdTech of the future?
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Arathi Sriprakash (University of Oxford) wants us to reimagine edtech along radically different lines.  What might digital education look...
Why using GenAI in education is ‘pedagogically irresponsible’
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Philosopher Gene Flenady (Monash University) has strong reservations about the current push for GenAI into university teaching and learning. If we ac...
Fostering autonomy in the platformised classroom
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Niels Kerssens (Utrecht University) joins us to talk about the concept of 'platformisation' that came out of Utecht led by Jose Van Dijck in...
Should teachers use AI to write emails to parents?
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI tools are now being sold with the promise of doing all sorts of routine tasks for teachers.We talk to Brad Robinson (Texas State University) about ...
Techno-solutionism in education
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does education keep falling for techno-solutionism, despite the fact that technology does not seem to drastically improve education? Ezechiel Thi...
Schools, datafication and the rise of EdTech ‘intermediaries’
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Schools are increasingly reliant on data infrastructures and platforms – leading to the growing significance of various ‘intermediary actors’ no...
Digital disinformation in the age of AI … what can schools do?
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The growth of deliberately misleading and false information is one of the big concerns of the 2020s. Professor Olof Sundin (Lund University) has been ...
AI and the digital future(s) of universities
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where are universities going with digitisation and AI, and how does this fit with the views of staff and students? Dr. Magda Pischetola (University...
Korea is pushing AI into schools … where might this end up?
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year the Korean government announced its substantial commitment to AI and schools, launching an ‘AI Digital Textbook’ policy that promises to...
Getting Google out of Danish schools?
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2022 saw a flurry of reports that the Danish Data Protection Agency was ordering schools to stop using Google products over the tech firm’s misuse o...
The digital transformation of higher education … for better and for worse
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the face of it, digital technologies are now integral to university teaching and learning. But to what extent have things actually changed … and ...
The cruel optimism of EdTech
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Platforms are now an almost ubiquitous feature of schools. We talk with Lucas Cone (University of Copenhagen) about his work around teachers’ everyd...
What is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech?
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is growing interest in critical studies of education and technology. But what does it mean to be ‘critical’ of edtech, and how can this work...
What do ed-tech policymakers want from academic research?
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Academics are increasingly looking to make an impact on policymakers, but critical ed-tech research often seems to fall on deaf ears. In this episode...
Reading in the digital age
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digital books are now a common part of education, but concerns are growing around the problems of students reading on-screen.Marte Blikstad-Balas (Uni...
Australia thinks that it can ban young people from using social media … we have questions!
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian government has just announced that it will ban all young people under the age of 16 from using social media.Dr. Clare Southerton explai...
‘Nudging’ students to do the right thing
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Digital technologies are now a key means of ‘nudging’ students (and teachers) to make better decisions. Mathias Decuypere (PHZH) talks about the ...
The challenges of studying in the ‘platformised’ university
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
University life is now increasingly mediated by digital platforms. Joe Noteboom’s research looks at the everyday realities of studying through platf...
Raising a generation of techno-skeptical students
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Krutka (University of North Texas) is on a mission to support students, teachers and parents to think critically and make informed decisions about...
Students ‘cheating’ with Generative AI
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two years on from the initial panic around Chat GPT and student cheating we catch with Phill Dawson from Deakin’s ‘Centre for Research in Assessme...
What’s the problem with Google Classroom?
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Sonia Livingstone (Digital Futures for Children, LSE) about the ways in which EdTech and data protection policies often fail to protect c...
‘Digital natives’ … the concept that refuses to die
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pekka Mertala (University of Oulu) talks about a new exhaustive analysis of nearly 1900 articles that charts the evolving use of the ‘digital native...
Emotion AI in education
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nathalie DiBerardino (Western University) discusses the growing take-up of emotion AI in schools – tech that claims to detect student attention, con...
Banning mobile phones from schools
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Reed (University of Exeter) talks about the recent UK government push to ban mobile phones from schools in England. He fills us in on the motiva...
Digital technologies in early childhood education
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Antti Paakkari (Tampere University) talks about his research on digital technologies in Finnish early childhood centres – from digital portfolios to...
Digital technologies and the commercialism of education
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Faith Boninger talks about how digital technologies are increasingly implicated in the commercialism of education.  We talk about Faith’s involvem...
Is there a place for facial recognition technology in education?
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recent reports of facial recognition technology being developed for use in US classrooms has attracted widespread criticism. We talk to Charles Logan ...
The history of educational computing in Europe
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Geiss (Zurich University of Teacher Education) talks about a new edited book looking at how computers came into European schools from the 1960...
Is it time to rethink how we teach Digital Citizenship?
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Webster (University of Auckland) talks about the need to update how schools teach the topic of ‘Digital Citizenship’, and how post-digital th...
AI technology in primary classrooms - a Swedish perspective
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katerina Sperling (Linköping University) talks about her ongoing research into the realities of AI use in Swedish primary classrooms.   Accompanyi...
Why the digital disruption of higher education might be a long time coming …
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Murray (University of South Australia) talks about research looking at the claims made by EdTech companies and investors about the ‘digital d...
The de-digitization of Swedish schools?
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2023, the Swedish education minister Lotta Edholm surprised many people by announcing her government’s intention to reverse the country’...
The political and economic agendas behind EdTech
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Lulu Shi (University of Oxford) talks about the her new research around the economic and political agendas of tech firms and poli...
AI and education – making sense of the hype
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wayne Holmes (UCL) has been working around AI and education *long* before it became fashionable! In this episode, Wayne looks back over the recent hy...
AI and education in China
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reports of ‘what China is doing’ are a key part of the hype around AI and education in Western countries.But how is AI actually being developed in...
Audrey Watters’ ‘Second Breakfast’
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Until recently, Audrey Watters was one of the most prominent and prolific critics of digital technology and education – dubbed ‘ed-tech's C...
Digitisation of education … what are critical scholars writing about in 2023?
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Williamson joins us for a sneak preview of the mammoth 2024 World Yearbook of Education with eighteen new chapters themed around “Digitalizati...
Season 1 - Trailer
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Advance warning of ‘Education Technology Society’ … a new podcast about digital education and education futures.This is a place to catch up wi...