Laboratory of International Assessment Studies

We're a research network for anyone interested in international large-scale assessments (ILSA's).

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Coming up an interesting Webinar by @norrag on knowledge (in)equity in education systems. Know more and register at: https://t.co/gJMGjHrEdk

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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@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).

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@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

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

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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.

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

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

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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

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

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