Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈
@prachisrivas
Education and global development, Adelaide University | UNESCO Network on Education, Epistemic Justice and the Knowledge Commons Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC
Also, once upon a time, a long time ago I chanced upon this. As the classics are back with a vengeance, perhaps you'll find some use for it. :)
More about Anthropic's Project Panama for Claude in 'Claude's words'. Prompt: 'Is Claude scanning books and destroying them?' Sent to me by a friend.
😂 Also, this. Now I have a love triangle plot line for The Count, Miss Piggy, and Kermit The Frog in my head and there's no going back.
The UN Secretary-General's bold call to protect children from the threats of AI should be a sharp signal to education policymakers to assess the harms of surreptitious AI integrated in digital learning platforms. This goes far beyond social media bans or restricting LLMs. www.un.org/sg/en/conten...
Ummm... OK. So I don't know how to take this. I'm reading this article and there's an ad banner that pops up in the middle of page. And I'm annoyed so I start scrolling past. But something looks familiar. It looks familiar because... It's the ad. To. My. Book. What is happening???!!!
Heehee- I remember the Little People! This was my version of Game of Life. :)
Still getting used to day/time changes, I'm late for a very important date to post about International Tea Day on 21 May! Well it's still that date back home, so enjoy a cuppa!
In academic news today: arXiv's new policy to ban authors for one year who submit a paper that: 'contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper.' All this 'time-saving' is costing us a lot of time.
Here's a quick view of Jantar Mantar from my last visit to Jaipur a few months ago. I'm also not ashamed to admit that on a slightly frivolous note, I love that the story mentions the last Maharani of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi, who although royal, was progressive and whose glamour is legendary.
Latest issue of The UNESCO Courier: Artificial intelligence: do we still need to think? courier.unesco.org/en/latest
Thrilled to speak at LSE EduHub Seminar Series @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social on which private philanthropic actors have influence on girls' and women's education financing given ODA withdrawal, targeting education in war, and threats to girls'/women's rights. Thanks @soniaexley.bsky.social. #EduSky
UN General Assembly Member States adopted a resolution 'declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.' The resolution was led by Ghana. Voting was 123 votes in favour, 3 against (Argentina, Israel, US), and 52 abstained. news.un.org/en/story/202...
#InternetUgly - well there's something I didn't think Habermas would lead me to.
It's NAPLAN testing season here in Australia. My comments on mass technical disruptions and the bigger questions: is digital testing appropriate given platform glitches and costs to the public purse when the science of learning shows print is more effective? www.heraldsun.com.au/education/sc...
Wonderful to be at the DevED25 Conference in Melbourne on education and global development - a new forum for ideas and practice exchange. Looking forward to learning from colleagues from academia and international NGOs and agencies working on education challenges in Asia and the Pacific.
Heading off to Melbourne! Kicking off the week with my talk: Private Schooling Preserving Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as 'Tradition' for the INDEPTH network session with @unimelb.bsky.social @australianare.bsky.social Join us: Monday, 10 November 3 pm MEL in person/online
Actually reminds me of a pointy lotus - one of my ab fab flowers!
Heartbroken, like countless across the world, to have woken up to the news of the passing of Jane Goodall. Her fierce passion and audacious hope in connection and communication across boundaries - human, animal, and otherwise - as the lifeforce is a lesson for us all.
Wonderful to have a few days in London. Grateful to have visited The LSE and share ideas and learn about new work. Cherry on top: MARY MARY exhibition at The Artist's Garden, a public art exhibition by women artists. Candida Powell-Williams's 'Auguries through the Mist', struck me.
I also engaged with doctoral students in a Roundtable Presentation, 'Epistemic Humility as Experienced Provocation'. Thank you to the wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumptious food, tea, and cake!
Brilliant time at @soebristol.bsky.social meeting colleagues and working on research ideas this week. It was especially invigorating to present the invited talk, 'Private Education Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as "Tradition"' at Centre for International Research in Education.
The symbolism was not lost on me - discussing epistemic humility and epistemic justice in a room with an old portrait of the Bishop of Calcutta during colonial times and a new portrait of the leading professor, Prof Aditi Lahiri, born in (then) a newly independent Calcutta.
Join us today for 'Relational Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: A Workshop of the Epistemic Justice Network', following from the @unesco.org Chairs Forum in Dakar. @ukfiet.bsky.social UKFIET Conference in Oxford, Wednesday, 17 September, 13:30-15:00
A week of Oxford! Started with a beautiful day yesterday at the special BE2 event ‘The Use of AI in Education: Evidence and Use’, on the grounds of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. Lovely to connect with colleagues and friends, old and new!
Tell me again how 'AI is going to revolutionise education' when roughly a quarter of primary schools globally don't even have electricity, toilets, drinking water, and basic WASH facilities. It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
Call for papers: The Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES), 53rd Annual Conference, 'Education, Knowledge and Power in the Asia-Pacific'. 23–26 November 2025, University of Canterbury in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. ocies.org/ocies-53rd-a... #EduSky
Lovely to give the keynote 'On Epistemic Humility: storytelling, positionalities, and just survival in/through research', for the Higher Degree Research Forum, University of South Australia. I draw on post-colonial, Black, and Indigenous scholarship to problematise what we know and how we know.