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Imogen Casebourne
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Innovation Lab lead at DEFI (Digital Education Futures Initiative). Interested in educational technology. Opinions my own.
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'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
www.noemamag.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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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
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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
rupertwegerif.substack.com/p/turning-th...
Turning the Outside In—and Back Out Again
How using AI with Dialogic Teaching could restore the essential mission of education
rupertwegerif.substack.com
July 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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📢 PESF Seminar Announcement — All Welcome!

PESGB Philosophy of Education Sans Frontiers (PESF) Seminar

Daoist Wisdom: An Account of Epistemic Humility

Dr Christine Tan
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
5:30–7:15 PM (UK / London Time)
Online via Zoom

ID: 871 4367 0700
Passcode: 295208
June 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yes the length of time of this outage is notable and also offers food for thought in discussions on increased use of online services and platforms in education.
amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down
April 8, 2025 at 1:45 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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My new baby. I do hope you find it engaging and of value…
February 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A very rich and insightful reflection on AI and writing simon.buckinghamshum.net/2023/03/the-...
The Writing Synth Hypothesis
simon.buckinghamshum.net
February 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Today is Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day.
You’re welcome
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Artist: Robert Ayton
January 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Want to try talking to the AI yourself? Check out debunkbot.com ! Pass the link on to your conspiratorial friends and family members, have it ready for the next holiday get together😉
DebunkBot
Interact with an artificial intelligence model that seeks to persuade you against unsupported beliefs like conspiracy theories.
DebunkBot.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Nice ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off
December 18, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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They put solar panels over some French vineyards, resulting in:

➡️ Yield increase of 20-60%
➡️ Irrigation reduced 20-70%
➡️ Frost mortality reduced 25-50%

Hard to find a downside here.

HT @billmckibben.bsky.social
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...
Agrivoltaics can increase grape yield by up to 60%
French agrivoltaics company Sun'Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels. The PV modules helped regulate temperature fl...
www.pv-magazine.com
December 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Fantastic event
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 12:53 PM
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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
Looking forward to attending this event tomorrow where I will be speaking briefly about the intersection of CI and AI -

cic.uts.edu.au/events/colle...
First International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence | UTS:CICUTS
cic.uts.edu.au
December 4, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Excited that this book on AI and Education has been published- link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Artificial Intelligence in Education: The Intersection of Technology and Pedagogy
This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways in which the careful integration of AI might enhance learning outcomes
link.springer.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 :

scidraw.io

bioart.niaid.nih.gov

www.phylopic.org

More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com
SciDraw | Scientific Drawings
SciDraw - an open repository of science drawings
scidraw.io
November 23, 2024 at 6:57 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
Cheering things
January 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM