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EPISODE 13 - AI in EdTech: an audit on children's rights and learning
In this episode, we speak with Sonia Livingstone and Dr. Ayça Atabey from the Digital Futures for Children Centre (a collaboration between the London School of Economics and the Five Rights Foundation) about their recent report, 'A Child Rights Audit on Gen-AI in EdTech'. Together, they discuss the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI tools into schools.
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Learn more about the A child rights audit on GenAI in EdTech report
For the full report discussed in this podcast: A child rights audit on GenAI in EdTech: https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/our-work/genai-edtech This report advances the DFC's and 5Rights' research on A better Edtech future for children and builds on our earlier DFC research on EdTech and education data. The Digital Futures for Children centre acknowledges funding from the 5Rights Foundation. This joint LSE and 5Rights research centre supports an evidence base for advocacy, facilitates dialogue between academics and policymakers and amplifies children's voices, following the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's General comment No. 25.
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Learn more about Agile Edu
This podcast is part of the Agile EDU project co-funded by the European Union and whose aim is to support inclusive and high-quality digital education, focusing on offering evidence from research and practice, and policy initiatives, on the use of data about student learning. The project runs for a three-year period. So far, Agile EDU has facilitated the exchange of knowledge among education authorities during expert workshops and dialogue labs and produced a literature review, nine case studies and 18 learning stories on the use of data about students learning and a MOOC targeting teachers. A final report will provide guidelines and recommendations on the topic for education stakeholders to be presented in December 2025 at EMINENT 2025. This is a project coordinated by European Schoolnet and with partners from the University College Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Oslo (Norway), Portuguese Ministry of Education (Portugal), Foundation Empieza por Educar (Spain), and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Sweden); with the French and Slovenian Ministries of Education are associated partners.
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Dr Ayça Atabey
Lawyer/Researcher, University of Edinburgh
Ayça is a multidisciplinary researcher and a lawyer working with and for children. She is a certified data privacy and management expert in the EU and the UK. She currently works as a post-doc researcher in the Grasping Data Project at the University of Edinburgh, where she also has a researcher co-lead role focusing on data protection and data ethics. For her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, she conducted interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law, education, and child-computer interaction, focusing on data protection fairness and ethical data practices in AI-EdTech design. She received a PhD enrichment award from the Alan Turing Institute, where she worked with the Public Policy Children's Rights and AI team on child-centred AI projects, including mapping studies on legal frameworks relating to AI and children's rights with the Council of Europe. Ayça has experience working as a consultant, adviser, and researcher at NGOs, international organisations, and research institutions. She has work as a research associate in the BRAID project on co-creation with young people for embedding Responsible GenAI into schools at the University of Edinburgh and as a consultant focusing on children's rights-respecting AI regulation, AI use in education at the Digital Futures for Children centre (a joint research centre, LSE and 5Rights Foundation). She held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh and Bilgi University Law School, BILGI IT Law Institute, and various consultancy roles focusing on gender equality, migration, AI governance, and data protection at UN Women for several years. Most recently, she worked as an evaluation researcher contributing to regional and corporate-level evaluations at UN Women Europe & Central Asia Regional Office.
Sonia Livingstone
OBE FBA, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Sonia Livingstone OBE FBA, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. Sonia has published 21 books on media audiences, children and young people's risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment. Since founding the EC-funded "EU Kids Online" research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF), she has advised the European Commission, European Parliament, Council of Europe UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU, UNICEF and UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. She leads the Digital Futures for Children centre at LSE with 5Rights Foundation..
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