Problematising education and digital technology

CSET2025 (Critical Studies of Education and Technology)

CSET2025 is a series of academic meetings being held around world during the same week (February 17th and 21st, week 8 of 2025) on the common theme: ‘Problematising education and digital technology’.

These meetings will all be based around four common themes, addressed in the form of the following questions:

#1. What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround EdTech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions?

#2. What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality?

#3. What does the political economy of EdTech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does EdTech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’?

#4. What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local push-back and resistance against egregious forms of EdTech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures?

These four questions will be addressed in the French context, as part of the Paris session at the Institut Catholique de Paris (and in hybrid).

Program for the session:

9h30. Laurent Tessier, Institut Catholique de Paris. Introduction to the day: EdTech in France, overview and pressing issues

10h. Nicolas Bourgeois, Pearltrees. Using a LLM for generating school materials and grading students. Issues and questions about Pearltrees’ teaching assistant

10h30. Mike Gadras, Sorbonne Paris Nord. Elements for reflection on the contributions of an environmental education approach to digital pedagogy

11h. Break

11h15. Virginie Trémion, Université Catholique de Lille. EdTech and teacher training in the Hauts de France region. The case of the Effata (DEFFINUM Project).

11h45. Stéphanie Chauveau, Institut Catholique de Paris. “Territoire Numérique Éducatif”, a digital plan in response to the COVID-19 crisis

12h15. Lunch break

14h. Michael Bourgatte, Université de Lorraine. Celluloid and PeerTube, digital humanities tools to “de-google” the practices of teachers and researchers

14h30. Rémi Ronfard, Inria. Kino AI, a free and open source toolbox for theater groups, teachers and students

15h15. Concluding discussions

This session is organized with the support of the Canevas consortium. The afternoon’s presentations will be recorded as part of the consortium’s webinars.

(Source : Laurent Tessier (23 janvier 2025). CSET 2025. Consortium Huma-Num CANEVAS. https://doi.org/10.58079/135b9