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Nils Kerssens
Assistant Professor in Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University researching digital autonomy and platformization in European education.
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Can learning stay fair and human in the age of AI?
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15:17Katrina SikkelHOST
Uh, what other valuable approaches have you come across in your own project?
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15:21Nils KerssensGUEST
I think co-design is one of the most promising developments we see across Europe.
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15:25Nils KerssensGUEST
In my Reclaim Edu project, we're mapping what we call digital autonomy innovators, and so co-design efforts involving schools, researchers, public organizations that are trying to put education rather than tech companies, uh, back in the driving seat.
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15:38Nils KerssensGUEST
At the same time, I, I should say we should be careful not to assume that co-design automatically leads to better educational technology.
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15:44Nils KerssensGUEST
So co-design is a real strength when it gives teachers and students the chance to actually step back and ask, "What kind of learning do we actually want to support in our technologies?" And so another great example is the European Smart Schools project, and the acronym is SMASH, where educators in Germany and Belgium work together with researchers to rethink digital education in their classrooms so as to make technology more pedagogically meaningful and more socially responsible.
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16:11Nils KerssensGUEST
And I think that's also a great direction for many co-design initiatives, uh, across Europe, uh, to develop towards.
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18:16Katrina SikkelHOST
What's the relevance of developing a European digital autonomy in the educational sector?
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18:21Nils KerssensGUEST
sector?It's important to realize that digital autonomy isn't mainly a technical issue, right? So it's really a democratic and an educational one.