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Rupert Wegerif
@rupertwegerif.bsky.social
Professor of education at Cambridge writing and researching on dialogic education with technology
In a world of answers how do we teach better questions? Teaching Dialogic Intelligence with AI open.substack.com/pub/rupertwe...
Teaching Dialogic Intelligence with AI
Recent studies split almost 50-50.
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August 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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This morning The Guardian has thrown its weight behind the campaign for oracy education.

This is an important moment for the oracy movement.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on talking in class: the writers speaking up for oracy education are right | Editorial
Editorial: Verbal communication has always been crucial. But today more than ever, young people must be equipped for jobs that can’t be done by machines
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
substack.com/inbox/post/1... We need to respond to the challenge of AI with a new focus: Dialogic Intelligence.
Dialogic Intelligence
What It Is, and Why AI Makes It Urgent
substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Short film of DEFICambridge.org annual event: ED2125: Technology and the Emerging Social Contract for Education!
keynotes UNESCO, the United Nations University, Ghana's Director of the Complementary Education Agency and showcasing EdTech startups and research
www.youtube.com/watch?v=erKE...
Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Based at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, we creatively explore the field of possibilities that digital technology opens up for education
DEFICambridge.org
July 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The amazing Lydia Cao, now working at Toronto University, has a new paper in Computers and Education on how to use simulations to help prepare teachers for the 'contingent responsiveness' that is required by dialogic education

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thinking fast, slow, and ahead: Enhancing in-service teacher contingent responsiveness in science discussion with mixed-reality simulation
Teacher contingent responsiveness, defined as teachers' adaptive expertise to respond to the dynamic flow of student ideas in the moment, is crucial f…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Launching my new Substack today!
It starts with some key ideas from Chapter 1 of Rethinking Educational Theory —
Weekly posts will explore how dialogic education + AI can transform teaching and learning.
Subscribe if interested in that sort of thing
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Turning the Outside In—and Back Out Again
How using AI with Dialogic Teaching could restore the essential mission of education
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July 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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To mark the launch of his new book, @rupertwegerif.bsky.social will be joined by special guest Sir Anthony Seldon – educator, historian, and founder of the AI in Education Initiative for this event on 9 June, 5.30pm – 7pm.

Tickets are free: deficambridge.glueup.com/.../rethinki...
May 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Audrey Tang in conversation with Rupert Wegerif, on how to redesign systems from antisocial to prosocial

#CollectiveIntelligence #socialmedia #design

youtu.be/T1Ln8L4PzYs?si… via @YouTube @audreyt.org @rupertwegerif.bsky.social
A dialogue with Audrey Tang
YouTube video by CambridgeEDUC
https://youtu.be/T1Ln8L4PzYs?si…
April 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Out now! Rethinking Educational Theory By Rupert Wegerif
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🆓 Content: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
March 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I was recently interviewed about teaching thinking by the good people of 'Board Intelligence': a group all about improving how boards function.

www.boardintelligence.com/blog/the-sci...
The science of critical thinking: an academic’s view
Professor Rupert Wegerif discusses the role of AI and education in critical thinking, and why we need a new approach to developing our thinking skills.
www.boardintelligence.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My new baby. I do hope you find it engaging and of value…
February 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I see you can order my forthcoming book on Waterstones - something for the library perhaps? A lovely endorsement from Jim Wertsch who helped spur my interest in Bakhtin with his beautifully written Voices of the Mind.
www.waterstones.com/book/rethink...
January 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Educating for Collective Intelligence 💡

All talks and discussion available on the playlist

lnkd.in/ghcF469p

Papers, notes and chat transcript all on the event website lnkd.in/ghiFZncZ

#CollectiveIntelligence #HigherEd #GenAI #Assessment

Massive thanks to Simon Buckingham Shum and team!
December 9, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Looking forward to this event tonight (tomorrow for some) organised by Simon Buckingham Shum of Sydney UTS - a colleague from my Open University days:
www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/events...
First International Symposium for Educating on Collective Intelligence - Hughes Hall
An online symposium to explore the urgent challenges and opportunities in Collective Intelligence (CI)
www.hughes.cam.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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Big news today! ££ 👀 ai4ci.ac.uk/funding/
£1M of funding for #AI for #CollectiveIntelligence research projects across the UK is now available! Pls 🔁/💗!
Check the AI4CI website for info on how to apply.
If you have a question that's not answered in our FAQ, please get in touch! #AcademicSky #Research
December 2, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Israel-palestine erupting into politics, a Trump clone, extreme culture wars: This miniseries on 68 in the USA is essential context for understanding our present. Not quite as new as we think and presumably not all caused by the Internet after all.
512. America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5)
The Rest Is History · Episode
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November 25, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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First International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence

Papers are now live 💫

cic.uts.edu.au/events/colle...
First International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence | UTS:CICUTS
cic.uts.edu.au
November 19, 2024 at 8:57 PM