In September 1965, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) convened the World Congress of Ministers of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy in Teheran, Iran. UNESCO itself described the congress as an “historic turning-point” (UNESCO, 1977, p. 242) and “an … 
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synthetic governance: on the impossibility of taming artificial intelligence in education
This short piece makes the claim that it is impossible to consider taming Artificial Intelligence in education, specifically in our areas of interest – policy and governance. While AI is a broad area, here we are discussing not artificial general intelligence, but more limited and specific forms of …
editorial: taming technology
In today’s digital education, the threat of total surveillance, commercialization of learning, and automation of the classroom seems to be looming. There is a danger that new technologies will not only fail to deliver on their promises but will themselves become a threat to education and learning. …