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Ben Williamson

@benpatrickwill
16 posts
2025-04-04
“Both labs releasing education initiatives simultaneously reveals the high value of college students.  The race to embed AI tools in academia is a competition to shape how the next generation works with AI — and crucially, to become their default AI tool.”  🤢 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
2025-04-04 View on X
VentureBeat

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Plus free for college students in the US and Canada until the end of May 2025, intensifying competition with Anthropic in higher education

OpenAI has made its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all college students in the United States and Canada through the end of May …

2025-01-13
And, as expected, the official AI Plan document just makes a couple of refs to “AI assistants” reducing teachers' time spent planning and marking - but quite a lot on educating AI “talent” and wider AI skills training www.gov.uk/government/p...  [embedded post]
2025-01-13 View on X
Financial Times

The UK's PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI

Going our own way will unleash national renewal  —  Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation.

2024-10-01
Can only imagine more examples following fast of edtech platforms capitalizing on users' content for generative AI training - followed by a flood of even more edu-bot features and synthetic learning content
2024-10-01 View on X
404 Media

Udemy forces creators to use opt-out windows, the first of which was three weeks and ended on September 12, to prevent their videos from being used to train AI

https://www.404media.co/... X: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : This is a really wild story in part because Udemy is being more transparent than other companies, and is saying: It ...

2023-12-04
The reason to be sceptical of the puffery about AI “transforming” education is that institutions are already full of edtech that tracks students, as this nice @themarkup piece illuminates, and this is the same edtech now selling “AI” to schools and unis https://themarkup.org/...
2023-12-04 View on X
The Markup

How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers

2023-12-03
The reason to be sceptical of the puffery about AI “transforming” education is that institutions are already full of edtech that tracks students, as this nice @themarkup piece illuminates, and this is the same edtech now selling “AI” to schools and unis https://themarkup.org/...
2023-12-03 View on X
The Markup

How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers

A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Threads: @craignewmark . Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon....

2023-09-07
Enormous new report from @UNESCO on the #edtechtragedy that unfolded during Covid school closures. A lot remains to be learned from what many called, as the pandemic struck, “a great edtech experiment” https://www.unesco.org/... [image]
2023-09-07 View on X
New York Times

UNESCO: overreliance on remote learning tech during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered talk of more equitable, lower-tech options

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies … John Thornhill / Financial Times : ‘Edtech’ offers no escape from reality Benjamin Godfrey / Coins...

2022-09-24
“We have put ourselves in a situation where we actually pretty much rely on Chromebooks.” Good story on how Google became infrastructural to schooling, and the huge problems of now decoupling them. https://www.wired.com/...
2022-09-24 View on X
Wired

How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data

An 8-year-old's YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant's ubiquity and handling of children's data. Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @...

2022-07-22
“Universities already have academic freedom issues as it is.... I would be very concerned to move most of my university's operation to a platform that is, at the end of the day, profit-driven. I think that would be naive to say that we control the content.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-22 View on X
Protocol

A look at Meta's $150M Meta Immersive Learning project, through which it has partnered with Iowa-based VR startup VictoryXR to create 10 “metaversities”

During her inorganic chemistry class at Morehouse College in the spring of 2021, Dr. Muhsinah Morris launched a little experiment.

2021-07-26
“One education technology executive said: 'What are we supposed to do? We can't fight the Communist party.'” https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-26 View on X
Financial Times

China's edtech overhaul could eliminate foreign investors from the sector and wipe out billions invested by Sequoia, Tiger, Tencent, and SoftBank's Vision Fund

Financial Times :

Really interesting tale of edtech markets, investment, and regulation playing out here. According to edtech market agency HolonIQ, global education stocks have “suffered a massive decline ... primarily driven by regulatory changes in China” this year... https://www.holoniq.com/...
2021-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

China issues regulations for food delivery platforms, mandating minimum wage, respect for worker rights, and more, leading to Meituan shares dropping by 14%+

- It extended losses after Beijing issued food platform curbs  — Meituan is grappling with a broader antitrust investigation

“One education technology executive said: 'What are we supposed to do? We can't fight the Communist party.'” https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

China issues regulations for food delivery platforms, mandating minimum wage, respect for worker rights, and more, leading to Meituan shares dropping by 14%+

- It extended losses after Beijing issued food platform curbs  — Meituan is grappling with a broader antitrust investigation

Really interesting tale of edtech markets, investment, and regulation playing out here. According to edtech market agency HolonIQ, global education stocks have “suffered a massive decline ... primarily driven by regulatory changes in China” this year... https://www.holoniq.com/...
2021-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

In a blow to the edtech sector, China orders tutoring companies teaching the school curriculum to go non-profit, bans them from IPOs and raising foreign capital

Bloomberg :

2020-12-24
New York legislation places “moratorium on schools purchasing and using biometric identifying technology”. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-24 View on X
Forbes

NY governor signs a bill to suspend the use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until July 2022, the first such regulation in the US

Rachel Sandler / Forbes :

2020-12-23
New York legislation places “moratorium on schools purchasing and using biometric identifying technology”. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-23 View on X
Forbes

NY Governor signs a bill to suspend the use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until July 2022, the first such regulation in the US

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Tuesday temporarily banning the use of facial recognition in schools, making it the first state to take such a step.

2020-03-30
Big tech is now a huge part of coronavirus politics, doing data dashboards for health decision-making and also education without schools. Public services may never be the same again, with Google, Microsoft & Palantir expanding their activity. https://healthtech.blog.gov.uk/ ...
2020-03-30 View on X
BBC

UK's NHS says it is working with Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and Faculty AI on a dashboard that shows the spread of the virus and NHS' ability to deal with it

Leo Kelion / BBC :

2020-03-29
Big tech is now a huge part of coronavirus politics, doing data dashboards for health decision-making and also education without schools. Public services may never be the same again, with Google, Microsoft & Palantir expanding their activity. https://healthtech.blog.gov.uk/ ...
2020-03-29 View on X
BBC

UK's NHS says it is working with Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and Faculty AI on a dashboard that shows the spread of the virus and NHS' ability to deal with it

The NHS has confirmed it is teaming up with leading tech firms to ensure critical medical equipment is available to the facilities …