Tag: Education
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Medieval Manuscripts, IIIF and the History of Medicine on Cabinet
7 May 2019
Author:Sarah Griffin
Cabinet is well known across Oxford for the three-dimensional models of museum objects that we create to promote teaching with material culture. While these models are an effective way ...
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Notes on Analytical Engineering: Software and method for researching AI and Lifelong Learning
25 June 2018
Author:Cory Salveson
In this post, we describe the tools and techniques we’re using throughout the project and why. We also show how you can get started using the same. Beginning with ...
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Understanding the potential of AI for lifelong learning: The need for a critical perspective
13 June 2018
Authors:Rebecca Eynon
Huw Davies
Cory Salveson
The so-called “eternal spring” of AI has given new life to an old dream about supercharging human learning. From personalised teaching assistants to systems that “train” the brain directly, ...
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Why we shouldn’t be pathologizing online gaming before the evidence is in
10 October 2017
Author:There are active debates surrounding Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), however, a new study suggests that it may not, in itself, be robustly associated with important clinical outcomes. Internet-based video ...
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From private profit to public liabilities: how platform capitalism’s business model works for children
14 September 2017
Author:Huw Davies
Young people choose to use platforms for play, socialising and expressing their identity. Image by Brad Flickinger (Flickr: CC BY 2.0) Two concepts have recently emerged that invite us to ...
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Design ethics for gender-based violence and safety technologies
25 July 2017
Author:Ben Zevenbergen
Digital technologies are increasingly proposed as innovative solution to the problems and threats faced by vulnerable groups such as children, women, and LGBTQ people. However, there exists a structural ...
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Cyberbullying is far less prevalent than offline bullying, but still needs addressing
12 July 2017
Author:Schools and parents play an important role in educating children about cyberbullying. Credit: Pasco County Schools (Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0). Bullying is a major public health problem, with systematic ...
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Everything you need to know about Cabinet in under six minutes…
20 June 2017
Author:Last week, the Oxford University Museums Partnership in collaboration with the Digital Learning Network put on a fantastic event on Digital Learning in Museums. The event was focused on ...
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Social media is nothing like drugs, despite all the horror stories
19 June 2017
Author:Letting your child use social media is like giving them cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes – all at once, or so we’re told. If you have been following recent press ...
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How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?
10 May 2017
Author:Huw Davies
“Whether your child is an artist, a storyteller, a singer or a scientist, I’m the lovable little friend that will bring that out!” says the FisherPrice Smart Bear. Everyone ...
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We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare
20 April 2017
Author:Image by TheeErin (Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), who writes: “Working on a national cancer research project. This is the usual volume of mail that comes in two-days time.” In ...
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Tackling Digital Inequality: Why We Have to Think Bigger
15 March 2017
Authors:Huw Davies
Rebecca Eynon
Outcomes of the many schemes financed by the government to address digital inequalities are rarely uniformly positive or transformative for the people involved. Image: iPad by Sean MacEntee (Flickr). ...
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Gaming addiction: it may not be as much of a crisis as some expect
3 March 2017
Author:Few activities stir the imagination or popular concern more than video gaming. Nearly all young people in the UK now regularly play games – four in five of those ...
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A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others
19 September 2016
Author:The Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University had one of its (now) annual retreats on a beautiful Friday in the clubhouse of a local golf course. ...
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Two years after the NYT’s ‘Year of the MOOC’: how much do we actually know about them?
13 November 2014
Author:Despite the speculation about the role massively open online courses (MOOCs) may play in higher education, empirical research that explores the realities of interacting and learning in MOOCs is ...
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What does the recent LA School District “iPads-for-all” debacle tell us about the structural changes gripping the US K-12 educational system?
7 November 2014
Author:In the realm of education and technology, a central question of concern to both researchers and policymakers is why there continues to be such vast amounts of resources invested ...
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What are the limitations of learning at scale? Investigating information diffusion and network vulnerability in MOOCs
21 October 2014
Author:Despite the speculation about the role massively open online courses (MOOCs) may play in higher education, empirical research that explores the realities of interacting and learning in MOOCs is ...
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Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research
29 July 2014
Author:Child Internet safety is a topic that continues to gain a great deal of media coverage and policy attention: but online risk and harm are not equivalent and should ...
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Fieldwork in B4RN land
12 July 2014
Author:On the 9th and 10th of July we travelled up North to meet the people of B4RN, a community-owned fibre network in Lancashire providing future-proof full fibre connections to rural ...
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UK teenagers without the Internet are ‘educationally disadvantaged’
22 December 2012
Author:This is a repost of a University of Oxford press release reporting on work by Rebecca Eynon (OII) and Chris Davies (Dept of Education, Univ. Oxford) on how teenagers ...
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