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Eamon Costello
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(Post)Digital Learning. Critical Pedagogy. Post-AI futures. Creative methods. Speculative design. Pedagogies of kindness. Teacher education and fac dev.

Assoc Prof, Dublin City University - He/Him).


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September 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking This expert exchange invites you to be part of a dialogue that explores the role of Futures Thinking in education and engage in a reclamation of socio-technical imaginaries of what our world and our society could be, that are rooted in democracy, sustainability, ethics, relational pedagogies, mutuality, hope and beauty. You are called to give up stinking thinking and arrive in the beauty of the present direct from the future with expert researchers pursuing a diversity of inquiries in the field of educational futures that explore: Generative AI, anticipatory ethics and speculative design with students and teacher educators What is known about the current knowledge and competencies of teacher educators in Ireland, North and South, on Futures Thinking How Futures Workshoping can be used as a participatory methodology to support community democratic dialogue Featured speakers: Dr Valeria Prias & Dr Stefania Bocconi, National Research Council of Italy Dr Manuel Fernandez Lopez, DCU IoE, PI of SCoTENS FuturesNow project Dr Michal Wieczorek Ad Astra Fellow, Univeristy College Dublin Aisling Silke, DCU IoE, PI of Erasmus+ Enhance Project
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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With invited speakers including @michalwieczorek.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking This expert exchange invites you to be part of a dialogue that explores the role of Futures Thinking in education and engage in a reclamation of socio-technical imaginaries of what our world and our society could be, that are rooted in democracy, sustainability, ethics, relational pedagogies, mutuality, hope and beauty. You are called to give up stinking thinking and arrive in the beauty of the present direct from the future with expert researchers pursuing a diversity of inquiries in the field of educational futures that explore: Generative AI, anticipatory ethics and speculative design with students and teacher educators What is known about the current knowledge and competencies of teacher educators in Ireland, North and South, on Futures Thinking How Futures Workshoping can be used as a participatory methodology to support community democratic dialogue Featured speakers: Dr Valeria Prias & Dr Stefania Bocconi, National Research Council of Italy Dr Manuel Fernandez Lopez, DCU IoE, PI of SCoTENS FuturesNow project Dr Michal Wieczorek Ad Astra Fellow, Univeristy College Dublin Aisling Silke, DCU IoE, PI of Erasmus+ Enhance Project
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I love these morbid ideas 💀 💡

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September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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"Authoritarianism and Business Education: The Coming Threat from Generative AI"

by Professor Jerry Davis via @downes.bsky.social

#AuthoritarianEdTech

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Authoritarianism and Business Education: The Coming Threat from Generative AI - Global Focus Magazine
Explore the rise of authoritarianism in U.S. universities amid political pressure and funding cuts affecting education quality.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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"Educational AI Risks Becoming an Authoritarian Vehicle for Thought Control"

by Nicholas Rabb on
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"These systems are a dictator’s dream: the perfect infrastructure for the imposition of totalitarianism."

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Educational AI Risks Becoming an Authoritarian Vehicle for Thought Control
These systems are a dictator’s dream: the perfect infrastructure for the imposition of totalitarianism.
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September 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Thank you for writing such an important paper. The resignation of so many to an imaginary tech manifest destiny—including in the educational community, is shocking. There’s no inevitable future—only one to which we will default unless we can shake people’s sense of helplessness. We are not powerless
September 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM