Laboratory of International Assessment Studies

Coming up an interesting Webinar by @norrag on knowledge (in)equity in education systems. Know more and register at: norrag.org/kix-emap-webin…

@TaskeenAdam: What are the pedagogical visions underpinning ed-tech? (eg. Behaviorist, social constructivist, eg). #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

@Prigon proposes an ethical framework for AI audits of education:

@Prigon: Surveillance is the business model of ed-tech. #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

Audience question - Will the problem of english dominance and exclusion be solved by ed-tech? Answers from panelists: Yes language will with AI, but not culture and values embedded will be hard to challenge. #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

Could you give examples from international development which pushed the adoption/purchase of ed-tech by global south governments? #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

She discusses how earlier colonised, global south countries, people have an attitude to tech (equivalent to modernity) that is shaped by their colonial histories.

Siddhi Gupta speaks about how ed-tech positions itself as the the single route to reach what they claim is the single goal of education. #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

The role of the human - including those who have made the content or curriculum is invisibilised.

She speaks about the coherence and complementarity of different logics - the 'learning outcomes' dominance in education governance and the rise of ed-tech.

@marina__avelar speaking of new actors and intermediaries in ed-tech- philanthropies, software companies, etc. And they bring to the table their particular worldviews (eg. tech-solutionism, profit orientation).

@marina__avelar discusses techno-solutionism, the perspective that tech can solve all problems best. Tends to disregard complex root causes like coloniality. #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

@Prigon discusses the financial relationship between large corporate ed-tech, small software companies and governments. #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

She nuances the idea of exclusion with the concept of 'adverse incorporation' where the marginalised are forced to participate in ed-tech as it is their only access to education.

Her own PhD research looked at MOOCs from from a critical, decolonial approach - looking at questions of language, funding, power.

@TaskeenAdam defining decolonising education/ed-tech as taking a geopolitical approach to breakdown relationships of power. #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

The session on decolonising ed-tech has begun with a talk by @kathrynmoeller who positions herself as holding multiple stakeholder identities in this debate- parent, educator, researcher. #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

Are standardized assessments inherently epistemically unjust or can they be improved to be epistemically inclusive? #Data #DecolonizingData #EdTech #Education

@BaelaJamil: claims standardized assessment is made to be accessible to children with disability and the all castes.