Looking forward to: Education after the algorithm

Next week, I will take part in Education after the algorithm: Co-designing critical and creative futures, 20-21 February 2025. It’s a rare treat to be able to attend an event in person, and I am looking forward to travelling to Dublin, Ireland.

The event is a symposium for thinking otherwise about critical AI and post-AI pedagogies of higher education as part of the Erasmus+ Hacking Innovative Pedagogies: Digital Learning Rewilded (opens in a new tab) project.

Critical Cadence: Reclaiming the Pace of Digital Productivity

Since 2020 we have seen a great acceleration in the adoption of blended learning worldwide. In parallel to these changes in Higher Education, employers have witnessed an evolution of flexible and hybrid working practices. This shift in both learning and working requires us to think beyond current strategies for digital transformation, especially in the context of a growing student population with changing needs in a fast moving, competitive job market impacted by automation and AI. It’s time to reclaim the pace of digital productivity.

Both in education and at work the frantic pace of productivity is determined by the speed of digital tools. Notifications, comments, emails and other content arrive ever more quickly and demand instant attention. In the advent of AI powered learning and working, the pace of digital content creation is ever increasing.

This kind of ‘digital noise’ can easily lead to digital overwhelm and as a result our senses suffer. From Zoom and listener fatigue to lack of movement, our bodies, our embodied selves and our senses are feeling the impact of our increased reliance on digital productivity.

This session will explore strategies for changing the cadence of our digital lives to be a little more… human. To proceed at a pace of thinking, of working and learning, that is more conducive to reflection and to criticality. In essence, to find one’s own ‘Critical Cadence’.

My talk as a walk

I’ve created an audio resource to listen to whilst moving through a landscape, by for example walking. In this recording I expand on strategies and practical ideas to use movement in contemplative pedagogies and outdoor learning, and to notice how the pace of thinking and doing changes in motion.

I’d love to hear from you, so get in touch and explore more of my work on walking.