Educational technology in Australia has been shaped as much by governance and legitimacy as by software and design. This paper examines four Australian edtech cases, Canva for Education, Education Perfect, LearningField, and Grok Academy, through a comparative case study based on public document analysis and temporal mapping.

This article proposes screen recording as a promising method for studying digital environments in education, presenting three cases of integrating screen recordings into a qualitative design: social media use in the classroom, school leadership practice, and writing practices in multilingual classrooms.

Big Tech platforms, and their largely proprietary logics, have been scrutinised within the field of critical edtech studies as bringing forth an increase in surveillance and inequality in education. There has therefore been a rising call to apply critical, participatory and speculative design approaches to develop alternative platform infrastructures that correspond with values such as…

Discourse on technology in education is dominated by deterministic, techno-centric narratives that portray technology as an inevitable force, while positioning education in a reactive role. Speculative storytelling strives to challenge such tendencies and imagine alternative educational futures. However, further clarity is needed concerning the opportunities and trade-offs characteristic of speculative storytelling. Drawing on research in…

Education reproduces a poverty in social imaginaries regarding technological futures. This article explores how drama-based pedagogy combined with speculative design can unearth and expand social imaginaries about AI in higher education.

En vision om konst, design och humaniora som Nordens nästa konkurrensfördel. Essä skriven för IVA inom ramen för Svenska framtider - en vision för teknik- och innovationslandet Sverige år 2035 - av IVA-ledamöterna Martin Nilsson Jacobi, rektor och vd Chalmers tekniska högskola och Anna Valtonen, rektor Konstfack.