Rebecca Quintana, PhD
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@rebquintana.bsky.social, clinical associate professor of education at #UMich Education, discusses how ed-tech companies are putting AI before educator expertise: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/learning-innovation/2025/10/23/ed-tech-companies-are-putting-ai-educator-expertise#
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@rebquintana.bsky.social, clinical associate professor of education at #UMich Education, discusses how ed-tech companies are putting AI before educator expertise: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/learning-innovation/2025/10/23/ed-tech-companies-are-putting-ai-educator-expertise#
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Rebecca Quintana nails it. "Educational Technology Companies Are Putting AI Before Educator Expertise" @rebquintana.bsky.social
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Ed-Tech Companies Are Putting AI Before Educator Expertise
A guest post from U-M’s Rebecca Quintana.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Rebecca Quintana nails it. "Educational Technology Companies Are Putting AI Before Educator Expertise" @rebquintana.bsky.social
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Just published online - Investigating social media-driven technology-enhanced learning for teachers’ continuing professional development: a systematic mapping review by Jinfen Xu & Yi Xie. More information @ bit.ly/4mClW2F
Investigating social media-driven technology-enhanced learning for teachers’ continuing professional development: a systematic mapping review
Prodigious technological changes and 21st-century skills have raised concerns about teachers’ competencies for continuing professional development (CPD). Despite the abundance of review articles on...
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June 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Just published online - Investigating social media-driven technology-enhanced learning for teachers’ continuing professional development: a systematic mapping review by Jinfen Xu & Yi Xie. More information @ bit.ly/4mClW2F
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Just published online, the Open Access Article - Contributors to teachers’ learning in a systems-thinking professional development programme by Sizwe E. Nxasana, Juebei Chen, Lykke Brogaard Bertel & Xiangyun Du. Read and download @ bit.ly/4jtxtOU
Contributors to teachers’ learning in a systems-thinking professional development programme
This study explores the factors that contribute to teacher learning within a one-year systems-thinking-based professional development (PD) programme at a private school in South Africa implementing...
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June 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Just published online, the Open Access Article - Contributors to teachers’ learning in a systems-thinking professional development programme by Sizwe E. Nxasana, Juebei Chen, Lykke Brogaard Bertel & Xiangyun Du. Read and download @ bit.ly/4jtxtOU
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Just published online - A living educational theory research approach to continual professional learning and development with values by Jack Whitehead & Marie Huxtable. More information @ bit.ly/45tt3UZ
A living educational theory research approach to continual professional learning and development with values
We contend that professional practitioner’s learning and development requires more than improving skills, knowledge and expertise associated with a field of practice and behaving in accord with the...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Just published online - A living educational theory research approach to continual professional learning and development with values by Jack Whitehead & Marie Huxtable. More information @ bit.ly/45tt3UZ
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), ‘I don’t need professional development; I want institutional development’: legitimising marginalised epistemic capital that disrupts generative AI discourse by Peter Bannister & Mark Carver. More info @ bit.ly/3AQXfwj
‘I don’t need professional development; I want institutional development’: legitimising marginalised epistemic capital that disrupts generative AI discourse
Responding to GenAI technologies, academics press for PLD that informs pedagogical practice and policy development. However, insufficient critical evaluation of whose knowledge informs this and its...
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May 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), ‘I don’t need professional development; I want institutional development’: legitimising marginalised epistemic capital that disrupts generative AI discourse by Peter Bannister & Mark Carver. More info @ bit.ly/3AQXfwj
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), Artificial intelligence professional development: a systematic review of TPACK, designs, and effects for teacher learning by S. Dogan, U. Y. Nalbantoglu, I. Celik & N. Agacli Dogan. More information @ bit.ly/4hamyto
Artificial intelligence professional development: a systematic review of TPACK, designs, and effects for teacher learning
This study aims to provide a systematic review using the PRISMA protocol that overviews artificial intelligence (AI) professional development (PD) initiatives for teachers, emphasising the fusion o...
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May 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), Artificial intelligence professional development: a systematic review of TPACK, designs, and effects for teacher learning by S. Dogan, U. Y. Nalbantoglu, I. Celik & N. Agacli Dogan. More information @ bit.ly/4hamyto
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), the Open Access Article - Conceptualising a data analytics framework to support targeted teacher professional development by Ali Gohar Qazi & Norbert Pachler. Read and download for free @ bit.ly/3YAibzC
Conceptualising a data analytics framework to support targeted teacher professional development
This paper proposes a conceptual framework enabling the development and adoption of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and recommendatory data analytics in teacher professional learning by harness...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), the Open Access Article - Conceptualising a data analytics framework to support targeted teacher professional development by Ali Gohar Qazi & Norbert Pachler. Read and download for free @ bit.ly/3YAibzC
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Crafting innovative paths in non-linear professional learning for bilingual education: the role of connectivism in the age of AI by Amin Davoodi. More information @ bit.ly/3YqZwGo
Crafting innovative paths in non-linear professional learning for bilingual education: the role of connectivism in the age of AI
This study introduces a novel Connectivist model for professional development (PD) aimed at enhancing AI literacy among bilingual/ESL teachers in K-12 education. As AI technologies rapidly reshape ...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Crafting innovative paths in non-linear professional learning for bilingual education: the role of connectivism in the age of AI by Amin Davoodi. More information @ bit.ly/3YqZwGo
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Internationalizing curriculum through virtual exchange: critical perspectives on addressing barriers and advancing DEI in professional learning by Biswadeep Dhar & Riya Chakraborty. More information @ bit.ly/4cOhrxA
Internationalizing curriculum through virtual exchange: critical perspectives on addressing barriers and advancing DEI in professional learning
Curriculum internationalization involves orienting a curriculum from an international perspective, building students’ and educators’ competence at professional and societal levels, engaging them in...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Internationalizing curriculum through virtual exchange: critical perspectives on addressing barriers and advancing DEI in professional learning by Biswadeep Dhar & Riya Chakraborty. More information @ bit.ly/4cOhrxA
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Post-teaching and professional learning: an investigation on teachers attitudes towards AI by L. Perla, L.S. Agrati & A. Beri. More information @ bit.ly/43oUIDR
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May 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Post-teaching and professional learning: an investigation on teachers attitudes towards AI by L. Perla, L.S. Agrati & A. Beri. More information @ bit.ly/43oUIDR
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This was a great paper to co-author with a great group of scholars.
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children by Mary Rice et al. More information @ bit.ly/3ZK4jF3
What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children
With the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI (GenAI) to school settings, teachers are likely to be drawn into professional learning scenarios where they will be...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This was a great paper to co-author with a great group of scholars.
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children by Mary Rice et al. More information @ bit.ly/3ZK4jF3
What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children
With the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI (GenAI) to school settings, teachers are likely to be drawn into professional learning scenarios where they will be...
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May 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - What is the machine? Teachers’ professional learning about generative artificial intelligence as tutors for children by Mary Rice et al. More information @ bit.ly/3ZK4jF3
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Dwelling in matter: flows of affect in teachers’ professional becoming-with-technology by Aspasia Dania. More information @ bit.ly/3Bcis3J
Dwelling in matter: flows of affect in teachers’ professional becoming-with-technology
The aim of the present article is to leverage new materialism as a framework for re-conceptualising teachers’ digital professional development. Building upon the Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts of affe...
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May 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3) - Dwelling in matter: flows of affect in teachers’ professional becoming-with-technology by Aspasia Dania. More information @ bit.ly/3Bcis3J
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The editorial for Vol 51(3) Special Issue is entitled - Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning by Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou. Read & download for free @ bit.ly/4mjvEa0
Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning
Published in Professional Development in Education (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2025)
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May 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The editorial for Vol 51(3) Special Issue is entitled - Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning by Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou. Read & download for free @ bit.ly/4mjvEa0
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" While many policy makers and scholars seem hopeful despite our experiences during the pandemic, the evidence says that the data and algorithms informing applications and programs are based on extant biases and so it is more likely they will reinforce inequality rather than alleviate it..."
The editorial for Vol 51(3) Special Issue is entitled - Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning by Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou. Read & download for free @ bit.ly/4mjvEa0
Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning
Published in Professional Development in Education (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
" While many policy makers and scholars seem hopeful despite our experiences during the pandemic, the evidence says that the data and algorithms informing applications and programs are based on extant biases and so it is more likely they will reinforce inequality rather than alleviate it..."
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Read the Summary of Articles editorial entitled - Understanding complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning by Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3). Download for free @ bit.ly/3ZklhZI
Understanding complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning
Published in Professional Development in Education (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Read the Summary of Articles editorial entitled - Understanding complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning by Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3). Download for free @ bit.ly/3ZklhZI
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Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), the Open Access Article - Using design thinking to embrace the complexities of teacher learning-practice with digital technologies by Christopher N. Blundell. Read and download for free @ bit.ly/3NIYZKS
Using design thinking to embrace the complexities of teacher learning-practice with digital technologies
Using digital technologies in teaching and learning is a complex endeavour, and mixed evidence of impact suggests further consideration of related professional learning and development (PLD) is nee...
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May 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Just published in the new Special Issue, Vol 51(3), the Open Access Article - Using design thinking to embrace the complexities of teacher learning-practice with digital technologies by Christopher N. Blundell. Read and download for free @ bit.ly/3NIYZKS
Excited to announce the publication of our Special Issue entitled "Applying Critically Complex Theories to Professional Learning With and About Advanced Technologies" in the journal of Professional Development in Education journal! We hope you will read and enjoy.
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Just published online - Volume 51, Issue 3, which is a Special Issue entitled - Applying Critically Complex Theories to Professional Learning With and About Advanced Technologies! The Guest Editors are Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou. Read @ bit.ly/2M5PqcJ
Professional Development in Education
Applying Critically Complex Theories to Professional Learning With and About Advanced Technologies!; Guest Editor Names: Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou. Volume 51, Issue 3 of Professional Development in Education
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May 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Excited to announce the publication of our Special Issue entitled "Applying Critically Complex Theories to Professional Learning With and About Advanced Technologies" in the journal of Professional Development in Education journal! We hope you will read and enjoy.
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In the editorial for 51(3), Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou state "Professional learning for AI should have a strong foundation in the communities that teachers are expected to serve." Read & download for free @ bit.ly/4mjvEa0
Overlapping complexities regarding artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in professional learning
Published in Professional Development in Education (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2025)
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May 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
In the editorial for 51(3), Mary Rice, Rebecca Quintana & Alex Alexandrou state "Professional learning for AI should have a strong foundation in the communities that teachers are expected to serve." Read & download for free @ bit.ly/4mjvEa0
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Love this! Love it! We hope we see this game published and put out into the world! We need games like this made!
The Porters, a board game exploring the struggle of early 20th Century Black Canadian railway workers to overcome racism and organise unions, has become the second winner of the Zenobia Award - a contest aimed at lifting up game designers from marginalised groups:
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November 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Love this! Love it! We hope we see this game published and put out into the world! We need games like this made!
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I've been thinking about the notion of off-loading in the age of generative AI
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Off-loading in the age of generative AI
A guest post by James DeVaney.
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November 22, 2024 at 9:26 PM
I've been thinking about the notion of off-loading in the age of generative AI
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Enjoyed re-reading The Victorian Internet. It looks at the telegraph, and how that launched a communications network with many of the promises & drawbacks we see with the Internet, plus parallels like instant news, spam, romance, encryption (sort of), & information overload.
The Victorian Internet
A new paperback edition of the book the Wall Street Journal dubbed “a Dot-Com cult classic,” by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-th…
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November 23, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Enjoyed re-reading The Victorian Internet. It looks at the telegraph, and how that launched a communications network with many of the promises & drawbacks we see with the Internet, plus parallels like instant news, spam, romance, encryption (sort of), & information overload.