{"podcast":{"title":"Education Technology Society","slug":"education-technology-society-6407432","podcast_index_feed_id":6407432,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1301377.rss","website_url":"http://soundcloud.com/eetheducationesearcher","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/5dub9sv2iz9988vrrgkbvih7mj12?.jpg","author":"Neil Selwyn","episode_count":50,"summary":"Casting a critical eye over the world of digital education, education futures and EdTech. Join Neil Selwyn as he talks to experts from around the world committed to new ways of thinking about digital technology and education","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T10:24:17.869731+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/education-technology-society-6407432"},"episode":{"title":"The cruel optimism of EdTech","slug":"the-cruel-optimism-of-edtech","published_at":"2025-03-07T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/education-technology-society-6407432/the-cruel-optimism-of-edtech","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/education-technology-society-6407432","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/episodes/16750701-the-cruel-optimism-of-edtech.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/episodes/16750701-the-cruel-optimism-of-edtech.mp3","summary":"Platforms are now an almost ubiquitous feature of schools. We talk with Lucas Cone (University of Copenhagen) about his work around teachers’ everyday engagements with platforms – in particular the benefits of using affect theory to make sense of teachers’ affiliations and relationships with these clearly problematic technologies. Accompanying reference >>> Lucas Cone (2024) Subscribing school: digital platforms, affective attachments, and cruel optimism in a Danish...","meta_description":"Platforms are now an almost ubiquitous feature of schools. We talk with Lucas Cone (University of Copenhagen) about his work around teachers’ everyday eng…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1385,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/education-technology-society-6407432/episodes/the-cruel-optimism-of-edtech/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/education-technology-society-6407432/the-cruel-optimism-of-edtech.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}