A brief history of the Web could read ‘In the service of profit, everything open was fenced in’, which sounds like an opening line from a Cormac McCarthy novel. The result is platform capitalism or vast walled gardens of data and activity. So vast we often forget they have edges.| David White: Digital and Education
A brief history of the Web could read ‘In the service of profit, everything open was fenced in’, which sounds like an opening line from a Cormac McCarthy novel. The result is platform capitalism or…| David White: Digital and Education
The majority of talks I attended at the recent CHEAD/UAL ‘AI in Art and Design Education’ were from academics discussing how they, and their students, have been incorporating AI into their creative…| David White: Digital and Education
I was asked by Professor Maggi Savin-Baden to write a short piece on this for the forthcoming Savin-Baden, M. and Savin-Baden, Z. (2026) Realistic and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence.&n…| David White: Digital and Education
The gambit we take each time we incorporate AI and technologies of cultural production in our work. We choose where we land on a continuum of agency and efficency. There are many hopes and fears su…| David White: Digital and Education
Teaching is defined by being in the same room, at the same time, with students. That might sound like an inaccurate, narrow, definition but it’s still largely how we manage teaching in UK Hig…| David White: Digital and Education
Is it possible to run an entire Art School style ‘journey’ in 25 minutes? Concentrated Art School (not made from fresh oranges) (Side note: this post lays out and reflects on a 25 minu…| David White: Digital and Education
During Covid lockdowns I wrote about the need for presence not contact hours. This was a simple way of rewiring thinking about teaching which explained why moving in-building approaches online felt…| David White
(A post about a the power of something that doesn’t exist.) In my last post I explored how the students on the ALT-C 24 conference student panel were suspicious of ‘innovation’ with digital technology and appeared to prefer incremental improvements that had a more direct, meaningful, impact. From their point of view the term innovation […]| David White
Last week I was busy helping out and learning things at the Association for Learning Technology conference in Manchester. I’ve been the president of ALT for around four years, leading on the ALT awards and various other stuff with support from the excellent ALT team. There has been a colossal amount of change during my […]| David White
On the 7th of June I’ll be in conversation with Professor Paul Lowe about the ‘Online Crit’ as part of our online seminar series (you can sign up here).An interesting idea surfaced during the chat …| David White
(…or there is no such thing as a good picture of a horse.) A little while back I was invited to give a talk at the University of Sydney where I argued that “The ‘Art School’ approach is incre…| David White: Digital and Education