Education Futures in the Public University – a hybrid ‘blue sky’ Data Justice workshop - 6 December
Tanja Dreher
sharing details of an upcoming 'blue sky' workshop on Education Futures in the Public University convened for the Data Justice Research Network of the UNSW Allens Hub - all welcome!
Education Futures in the Public University – a ‘blue sky’ Data Justice workshop
Join us to discuss the implications of datafication and platforms, automation and AI for the public university through the lens of Data Justice
Wednesday 6 December
10am – 12 noon, followed by a light lunch
UNSW Kensington campus, Sydney and online (livestream with moderated chat/QandA)
Registration:
https://forms.office.com/r/htw1wEATzk
Please register by 27 November, so that the event team can distribute the suggested readings and full further details ahead of the workshop.
How are we to make sense of the changing landscape of Edtech and technologies of automation across the public university? What are the data justice implications as public institutions are increasingly entangled with corporate commercial platforms? In this workshop, we want to reflect on our practices as educators and researchers and speculate about possibilities and challenges for more just education futures.
Education futures has emerged as a key theme to speculate and explore potential futures of teaching, learning and the university. In this workshop, we want to critically examine the future of the public university by reflecting on our own practices, explore the links between casualisation, emerging EdTech solutions, the automation of the university, and the datafication of the student body. The workshop will take the form of a ‘pop-up’ reading group. Participants will be asked to review several suggested readings, circulated in advance.
Dr Teresa Swist, research fellow at the University of Sydney and co-leader of the Education Futures Studio will provide an opening provocation. Dr Swist will highlight multi-scalar tensions and possibilities associated with the ‘EdTech Stack’: a speculative design thought experiment exploring systemic capabilities, planetary edtech controversies, plus the need for collective learning, experimentation and action.
Dr Kevin Witzenberger (UNSW) will provide a provocation on automated learning, where he showcases how far the university has already gone in pre-automating its systems and procedures where learning becomes an act of machine to machine communication that does not require teachers, nor students.
A/Prof Tanja Dreher (UNSW) will situate current developments and debates around EdTech in the Data Justice frame, highlighting student responses to the theme of ‘EdTech in the pandemic university’.
This workshop is presented by the Data Justice Research Network, a stream of the UNSW Allens Hub for technology, law and innovation and co-convened by the stream lead, A/Prof Tanja Dreher and stream member Kevin Witzenberger (UNSW). For any further details re the workshop, please contact Tanja Dreher at t.dr...@unsw.edu.au
Dr Tanja Dreher (she/her)
Associate Professor | School of Arts and Media
Co-Director Media Futures Hub
Stream leader Data Justice Research Network of the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation
University of New South Wales