@jamiemanolev.bsky.social
Research Associate l UniSA & CRESI l critical studies in edtech/school discipline l critical education policy scholar
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Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...
Building confidence during your PhD
Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If yo…
patthomson.net
October 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...
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New paper alert! In this article I look at the rise of the 'single platform solution' in schools driven by big tech. Very difficult to keep corporate logics at bay!
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<em>British Journal of Educational Technology</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article examines recent trends in the data infrastructures of Australian schools. Data interoperability has become integral to school operations as it enables data to flow between the array of .....
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New paper alert! In this article I look at the rise of the 'single platform solution' in schools driven by big tech. Very difficult to keep corporate logics at bay!
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cool parcel in the post of an "Ed-tech Agitprop Pack" unexpectedly sent by @neilselwyn.bsky.social
"The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.
"The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.
October 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Cool parcel in the post of an "Ed-tech Agitprop Pack" unexpectedly sent by @neilselwyn.bsky.social
"The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.
"The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
New open access article critically examining ClassDojo, published in @lmt-journal.bsky.social. In it we collate data from across 3 studies to scrutinise ClassDojo & argue it promotes a relationship of obedience between student & teacher @digitalchildau.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication
ClassDojo is a popular educational technology platform used by teachers to manage students’ behaviour and communicate with parents. This platform, though, along with other similar digital classroom...
www.tandfonline.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
New open access article critically examining ClassDojo, published in @lmt-journal.bsky.social. In it we collate data from across 3 studies to scrutinise ClassDojo & argue it promotes a relationship of obedience between student & teacher @digitalchildau.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A parent at our kids' preschool asked if I knew of any studies about ClassDojo because it's used in her older kid's classroom and I said yes, yes I do, and then I emailed her all of @jamiemanolev.bsky.social and co-authors' excellent work analyzing the platform, including two open articles. First:
Reshaping school discipline with metrics: an examination of teachers’ disciplinary practices with ClassDojo
Education is increasingly infiltrated by technology and datafication. This techno-data amplification is entangled with neoliberalism and the emphasis on calculation and measurement it brings, often...
doi.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A parent at our kids' preschool asked if I knew of any studies about ClassDojo because it's used in her older kid's classroom and I said yes, yes I do, and then I emailed her all of @jamiemanolev.bsky.social and co-authors' excellent work analyzing the platform, including two open articles. First:
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HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥
Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥
Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥
Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥
Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
Are We Losing Our Minds?
A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia
www.the-geyser.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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New on our blog: A preview of @benpatrickwill.bsky.socialECER 2025 Keynote: Educational genomics is a fast-growing area of research, but should policy or practice be based on an individual's DNA? #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/should-genetics-play-a-role-in-education/
September 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New on our blog: A preview of @benpatrickwill.bsky.socialECER 2025 Keynote: Educational genomics is a fast-growing area of research, but should policy or practice be based on an individual's DNA? #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/should-genetics-play-a-role-in-education/
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I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
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August 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Do you have a project (research, curriculum, advocacy) or want to distribute a call for proposals/chapters/etc?
On our contact page is a Blog Post Proposal form - we welcome contributions from our community!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/contact
On our contact page is a Blog Post Proposal form - we welcome contributions from our community!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/contact
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To claim that one skill is clever and another mundane, is to engage in the silencing of the intelligences that GenAI companies extract in the first place. GenAI is, in essence intelligence extraction, not intelligence learning.
Frack off AI?
This is the first blog that sociologically considers the phenomenon of AI in education in response to The Eye of the Master: A social history of artificial intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli. What does it mean to consider AI and education through a lens of labour? AI has received a considerable amount of critique from the incredibly healthy field of critical edtech.
drnomynblogs.wordpress.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
To claim that one skill is clever and another mundane, is to engage in the silencing of the intelligences that GenAI companies extract in the first place. GenAI is, in essence intelligence extraction, not intelligence learning.
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OpenAI is now in your LMS and Trump's mandating "non-ideological" AI literacy. Here's an updated list of critical research on AI in education to make sense of it all.
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
OpenAI is now in your LMS and Trump's mandating "non-ideological" AI literacy. Here's an updated list of critical research on AI in education to make sense of it all.
Delighted to share our (open access) pub examining 'How policies of school exclusion frame practice'. We analyse legislation guiding exclusions in 4 Aus states, & argue their use prioritises school over student needs. @australianare.bsky.social #schoolexclusions link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Delighted to share our (open access) pub examining 'How policies of school exclusion frame practice'. We analyse legislation guiding exclusions in 4 Aus states, & argue their use prioritises school over student needs. @australianare.bsky.social #schoolexclusions link.springer.com/article/10.1...
And now consider the implications of using this tool in/for education
You can think of it like an anti-tool, one that actually destroys your ability to solve a problem. That actively makes it impossible to learn from solving problems how to solve new problems.
June 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
And now consider the implications of using this tool in/for education
Big congrats to Mathias Decuypere, Sigrid Hartong, Jeremy Knox & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social for putting on the inaugural ECCES which brought together many in the critical edtech research community. Capped off with an inspiring keynote from @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Big congrats to Mathias Decuypere, Sigrid Hartong, Jeremy Knox & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social for putting on the inaugural ECCES which brought together many in the critical edtech research community. Capped off with an inspiring keynote from @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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Critical studies of ed-tech are becoming increasingly popular ... but how can they be a useful force for change? New report outlines 8 main areas that the CSET community needs to get discussing! 🧵
bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...
bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...
June 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Critical studies of ed-tech are becoming increasingly popular ... but how can they be a useful force for change? New report outlines 8 main areas that the CSET community needs to get discussing! 🧵
bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...
bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...
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"No easy answers ... what (social) science says about digitisation and schools" ... short chapter written for teachers in response to the Swedish government's demands to 'follow the science' regarding digital technologies in the classroom!
Download link for PDF: bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/...
Download link for PDF: bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/...
May 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"No easy answers ... what (social) science says about digitisation and schools" ... short chapter written for teachers in response to the Swedish government's demands to 'follow the science' regarding digital technologies in the classroom!
Download link for PDF: bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/...
Download link for PDF: bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/...
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I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7
Introduction to special section: the political life of education online | Naomi Barnes
Just published online!
A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7
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Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices by @benedetta.bsky.social in Digital Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society
Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...
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May 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices by @benedetta.bsky.social in Digital Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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On an intellectual diet of weaponry, and on resisting the computational machinery of war.
*For Isaiah*
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*For Isaiah*
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Swords into Plowshares
Yesterday marked my fifth Mother's Day without him. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of his passing. My beautiful boy, for whom I still grieve and will grieve every day forever; and despite his death...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
On an intellectual diet of weaponry, and on resisting the computational machinery of war.
*For Isaiah*
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-...
*For Isaiah*
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-...
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“[John] Warner said we should actually think differently about whether teachers are grading writing effectively. ‘I’m a skeptic about ‘real time feedback,’ he said, noting that teachers can help students on occasion by waiting until they ask for help. ‘Sometimes the struggle is the point.’”
An Antidote to Plagiarism: New App Uses AI to Help Students Think Critically
‘Level Up,’ developed by Eliott Hedman, wants to flip a bleak script around artificial intelligence and its negative effects on student motivation.
www.the74million.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“[John] Warner said we should actually think differently about whether teachers are grading writing effectively. ‘I’m a skeptic about ‘real time feedback,’ he said, noting that teachers can help students on occasion by waiting until they ask for help. ‘Sometimes the struggle is the point.’”