Efforts are growing in many countries to get devices out of classrooms and push for a general ‘de-digitisation’ of education.

Ingrid Forsler (Södertörn University) talks about recent developments in Sweden and how we can make sense of this growing turn against digital education.

Accompanying reference >>> Forlser, I. et al. (2025). Hijacking the digital backlash in education. Postdigital Science & Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-025-00601-9

We talk with legal expert Liane Colonna (Stockholm University) about the EU ‘AI Act’ and what it means for the use of AI in education.

To what extent can we rely on regulation to enforce safer and more beneficial forms of AI use in education?

Accompanying reference >>> Colonna, L. (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED): Towards More Effective Regulation. European Journal of Risk Regulation, doi:10.1017/err.2025.10039

Professor Arathi Sriprakash (University of Oxford) wants us to reimagine edtech along radically different lines.

What might digital education look like if it was based around principles of reparation, sovereignty, care and democratisation?

Accompanying reference >>> Sriprakash, A., Williamson, B., Facer, K., Pykett, J. & Valladares Celis, C. (2025) Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation, Oxford Review of Education, 51:4, 561-578