TOWARDS AN ETHICAL AND IMPACTFUL FUTURE OF EDTECH: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
While digital technologies give hope for convivial futures, today's reality and practices highlight design challenges and risks that must...
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- Jul 28
- 4 min
#TechOnOurTerms – no more speculation, time for regulation
The claims of educational technologies are many: revolutionising learning, alleviating teachers’ from menial work to provide more time...
- Jul 21
- 1 min
EdTech Impact Quality Framework
This year EDDS achieved multiple partnerships together with Edtech Impact, WikIT AS, Education Alliance Finland, and What Worked...
- Jun 26
- 4 min
TRUSTWORTHY DATA SPACES: WHO ARE THEY FOR?
The primary objective of the European data strategy has been to establish a unified data market, which guarantees Europe's...
- Jun 12
- 5 min
Education data collection - is there a hard stop?
Is there a hard stop to data collection in education? Today, within the contexts of Western societies, data collection in education vary...
- Mar 25
- 2 min
WSIS Forum 2023 - Session Outcome
Governance and Regulation of Education Technologies: How to ensure EdTech serve in children's best interests? Rapid digitisation defines...
- Mar 15
- 2 min
EDDS and EdTech Impact partner to provide comprehensive evaluation of EdTechs
Working with industry to build trust and transparency for schools' peace of mind EDDS has partnered with EdTech Impact to expand the...
- Feb 18
- 5 min
Building a Safe and Transparent Edtech Ecosystem: A Regulatory Vision
The influence of businesses’ data-driven algorithm-infused products for education raises concerns about the impact of their commercial...
- Feb 13
- 1 min
The state of cybersecurity in K-12 education: towards a global cybersecurity standard for EdTech
The growing dependence of K-12 schools (kindergarten, primary and secondary education) on digital technologies has led to increased...
- Dec 8, 2022
- 12 min
ECIAIR 4th European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics - keynote
AI (in)justice in education – challenges for policy, governance, and society [The below is transcription and recording of EDDS founder...
- Nov 30, 2022
- 5 min
Edtech’s responsibilities in addressing cyber insecurities in education
Think of a street where children play, and the speed limit is 20mph. How do we enforce that limit to try and keep children safe? We could...
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
If we license the engineers, will we have safer technologies in education?
Cybercrime strains educational institutions. Security control mandates, licensing and regular audits may prevent some of it. As schools...
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
Should schools have greater oversight of edtech?
As edtech becomes more commonplace across school estates, is it time to provide leaders with more information about the firms they are...
- Jun 16, 2022
- 19 min
4 Ways the New EU Digital Acts Fall Short and How to Remedy It
There has been an outpouring of enthusiasm for the EU’s recent efforts to address digital giants. After a year of relative quiet...
- May 26, 2022
- 5 min
Many EdTech companies exploit children’s data, says Human Rights Watch report
A new report by Human Rights Watch confirmed that children are exploited through many seemingly innocuous – and often government endorsed...
- May 12, 2022
- 4 min
The promise and perils of education data
Education budgets are tied to how well a school performs, as demonstrated by data. Education data interoperability is called for to...
- Apr 22, 2022
- 4 min
Algorithmic personalization is disrupting a healthy teaching environment
The UK government has given no sign of when it plans to regulate digital technology companies. In contrast, the US Federal Trade...
- Apr 12, 2022
- 2 min
Edtech procurement matters: It needs a coherent solution, clear governance and market standards
Digital technologies have come to mediate every educational process - from operations and management to teaching and assessment. While...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 3 min
Corporate influence in career and technical education through data extraction
This paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Learning, Media and Technology addresses families’ perceptions of corporate influence...
- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
How cybersecure are EdTech products in the classroom?
In this post, which first appeared on the 5Rights Foundation | Digital Futures Commission blog, Dr Velislava Hillman argues that products...
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