John P
@johnpp.bsky.social
Prof of Media in Education. Director of UCL ReMAP.
Researching Media Arts and Play @uclremap.bsky.social
Co-editor @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Monthly co-host of 'Lost and Found on Tribe FM' in Australia via SE London https://www.mixcloud.com/richard-graham
Researching Media Arts and Play @uclremap.bsky.social
Co-editor @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Monthly co-host of 'Lost and Found on Tribe FM' in Australia via SE London https://www.mixcloud.com/richard-graham
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🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪
As part of LMT's 20th anniversary, in this editorial eight current and former editors reflect on the journal's achievements and consider its future.
Read more: tinyurl.com/yk7k2hkf
As part of LMT's 20th anniversary, in this editorial eight current and former editors reflect on the journal's achievements and consider its future.
Read more: tinyurl.com/yk7k2hkf
June 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪
As part of LMT's 20th anniversary, in this editorial eight current and former editors reflect on the journal's achievements and consider its future.
Read more: tinyurl.com/yk7k2hkf
As part of LMT's 20th anniversary, in this editorial eight current and former editors reflect on the journal's achievements and consider its future.
Read more: tinyurl.com/yk7k2hkf
@adriancrowley.bsky.social help! I really can’t stop playing ‘Measure of Joy’. Were these the new songs forming when you played the Green Note? Gorgeous. Looking forward to the Servant Jazz Quarters show!
May 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
@adriancrowley.bsky.social help! I really can’t stop playing ‘Measure of Joy’. Were these the new songs forming when you played the Green Note? Gorgeous. Looking forward to the Servant Jazz Quarters show!
Our book from our Playing the Archive project a few years ago is out now. Open access, free download from uclpress.co.uk/book/playing... @uclremap.bsky.social @vsigno.bsky.social
Playing the Archive
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Opies built...
uclpress.co.uk
April 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Our book from our Playing the Archive project a few years ago is out now. Open access, free download from uclpress.co.uk/book/playing... @uclremap.bsky.social @vsigno.bsky.social
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Here is an account of our recent Digital Inequalities and AI day which we shared with the UCL Knowledge Lab partly as a CSET event @vsigno.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social @neilselwyn.bsky.social reflect.ucl.ac.uk/remap-collab...
Digital futures and inequalities: critical perspectives on AI – ReMAP blog
reflect.ucl.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here is an account of our recent Digital Inequalities and AI day which we shared with the UCL Knowledge Lab partly as a CSET event @vsigno.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social @neilselwyn.bsky.social reflect.ucl.ac.uk/remap-collab...
Couldn’t agree more. Well said, Anna 👍😌
As a journal editor in #literacies, I wanted to send a quick and real thank you to everyone who is agreeing to review, and even more impressive, who is completing reviews at this moment. I also completely understand and appreciate not having the capacity or desire to do either.
March 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Couldn’t agree more. Well said, Anna 👍😌
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"My root worry about AI has always been that while it was making machine learning better, it was also making human learning worse. I am not alone in this. ... AI doesn’t improve thinking but blocks essential stages of it."
isrf.org/blog/the-fig...
isrf.org/blog/the-fig...
The Fight About AI
In this Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield shares some of his thoughts ahead of the forthcoming
isrf.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"My root worry about AI has always been that while it was making machine learning better, it was also making human learning worse. I am not alone in this. ... AI doesn’t improve thinking but blocks essential stages of it."
isrf.org/blog/the-fig...
isrf.org/blog/the-fig...
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"If universities don’t start asking harder questions about AI’s real value, they’ll keep spending money they don’t have on tools their students don’t need—while real educational challenges go unresolved."
What’s really going on with campus-wide AI adoption is a mix of virtue signaling and panic purchasing. Universities aren’t paying for AI—they’re paying for the illusion of control.
open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
The Costs of AI in Education
What’s really going on with campus-wide AI adoption is a mix of virtue signaling and panic purchasing. Universities aren’t paying for AI—they’re paying for the illusion of control. Institutions are bu...
open.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"If universities don’t start asking harder questions about AI’s real value, they’ll keep spending money they don’t have on tools their students don’t need—while real educational challenges go unresolved."
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🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
February 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
In this paper @ameliajohns.bsky.social, Harris, Booth, @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social & Walton show a gap between how #DigitalCitizenship is framed in Australian schools + how diaspora youth conceptualise it through the lens of their own needs.
Read more tinyurl.com/2djwfbfm
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🟨 #LMT News 🟪
#LMT Editor Felicitas Macgilchrist (@discoursology.bsky.social) joins Neil Selwyn (@neilselwyn.bsky.social) to talk about what is 'critical' in critical studies of #EdTech.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
#LMT Editor Felicitas Macgilchrist (@discoursology.bsky.social) joins Neil Selwyn (@neilselwyn.bsky.social) to talk about what is 'critical' in critical studies of #EdTech.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
February 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🟨 #LMT News 🟪
#LMT Editor Felicitas Macgilchrist (@discoursology.bsky.social) joins Neil Selwyn (@neilselwyn.bsky.social) to talk about what is 'critical' in critical studies of #EdTech.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
#LMT Editor Felicitas Macgilchrist (@discoursology.bsky.social) joins Neil Selwyn (@neilselwyn.bsky.social) to talk about what is 'critical' in critical studies of #EdTech.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
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🟨 #LMT News 🟪
We warmly welcome Luci Pangrazio (@lucipangrazio.bsky.social) as new member of the #LMT editorial team! After many years of great contributions to the research field as well as the journal's editorial board we are excited to have her add a fourth voice to the editorial team.
We warmly welcome Luci Pangrazio (@lucipangrazio.bsky.social) as new member of the #LMT editorial team! After many years of great contributions to the research field as well as the journal's editorial board we are excited to have her add a fourth voice to the editorial team.
February 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🟨 #LMT News 🟪
We warmly welcome Luci Pangrazio (@lucipangrazio.bsky.social) as new member of the #LMT editorial team! After many years of great contributions to the research field as well as the journal's editorial board we are excited to have her add a fourth voice to the editorial team.
We warmly welcome Luci Pangrazio (@lucipangrazio.bsky.social) as new member of the #LMT editorial team! After many years of great contributions to the research field as well as the journal's editorial board we are excited to have her add a fourth voice to the editorial team.
New Lost and Found www.mixcloud.com/richard-grah... with @darrenhayman.bsky.social an old @theleaflibrary.bsky.social track, a new @firestations.bsky.social one and a collaboration ‘Mirrored Daughters’ and much more including Neko Case, new Nada Reid, Tunng, Seamus Fogarty...
February 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New Lost and Found www.mixcloud.com/richard-grah... with @darrenhayman.bsky.social an old @theleaflibrary.bsky.social track, a new @firestations.bsky.social one and a collaboration ‘Mirrored Daughters’ and much more including Neko Case, new Nada Reid, Tunng, Seamus Fogarty...
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If any proposed edtech tool doesn't necessarily help us do things better, why do we always phrase ethical use of AI as a "why not" question when the people who support its use don't offer a compelling "why even"?
More detailed thoughts here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
More detailed thoughts here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
Five questions to ask before adopting a new technology | LSE Higher Education
As AI becomes a part of the edtech landscape, LSE HE Blog Fellow Maha Bali exhorts educators to ask five questions when considering a new technology for their course
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
If any proposed edtech tool doesn't necessarily help us do things better, why do we always phrase ethical use of AI as a "why not" question when the people who support its use don't offer a compelling "why even"?
More detailed thoughts here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
More detailed thoughts here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: “we can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulate” #STS’ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy
Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal
www.ft.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: “we can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulate” #STS’ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy
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My thoughts on the unsurprisingly tech-utopian AI Action Plan are too long to fit in BlueSky post or thread, but they are available here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jessic...
Jessica Rose Morley, PhD on LinkedIn: UK AI Opportunities Action Plan
**UK AI Opportunities Action Plan **
It's quite the tech-utopian, hype-escalating feast, but given the focus on
'opportunities' this is hardly surprising…
www.linkedin.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
My thoughts on the unsurprisingly tech-utopian AI Action Plan are too long to fit in BlueSky post or thread, but they are available here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jessic...
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Pleased to say Learning, Media & Technology is now on here @lmt-journal.bsky.social and this special issue editorial from just before end of last year on MiniEdTech gives a sense of the kind of critical research on education and tech we publish @johnpp.bsky.social @discoursology.bsky.social
🟨Volume 49, Issue 5 (2024) of LMT🟪
Guest editors @roopikarisam.bsky.social and
@readywriting.bsky.social present how #minimalcomputing offers an alternative to the narrative of technological solutionism that drives Big EdTech.
Read all articles: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/4...
Guest editors @roopikarisam.bsky.social and
@readywriting.bsky.social present how #minimalcomputing offers an alternative to the narrative of technological solutionism that drives Big EdTech.
Read all articles: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/4...
January 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Pleased to say Learning, Media & Technology is now on here @lmt-journal.bsky.social and this special issue editorial from just before end of last year on MiniEdTech gives a sense of the kind of critical research on education and tech we publish @johnpp.bsky.social @discoursology.bsky.social
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The Unbound Academy grift as summarized by @ddmeyer.bsky.social includes this self-dealing: "It is a conflict of interest, then, that 100% of Unbound Academy’s named board members are affiliated with th[e] vendors" whose services the board is paying for with public dollars.
The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI”
They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They have replaced poor kids with rich kids.
danmeyer.substack.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Unbound Academy grift as summarized by @ddmeyer.bsky.social includes this self-dealing: "It is a conflict of interest, then, that 100% of Unbound Academy’s named board members are affiliated with th[e] vendors" whose services the board is paying for with public dollars.
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We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
www.programmablemutter.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
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What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment
Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)
doi.org
December 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM
What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...
Hello @amandaallenphd.bsky.social I’m on here. Finally posted something. Thanks for the nudge on FB…😌
November 12, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Hello @amandaallenphd.bsky.social I’m on here. Finally posted something. Thanks for the nudge on FB…😌