Here’s to caregiver-educator coalitions against Big Tech! And as @alliethrall.bsky.social and I begin analyzing survey responses for our caregiver edtech resistance study, we’re seeing some caregivers attuned to building relationships *with* teachers rather than seeing them as adversaries.

Join @charleswlogan.bsky.social and I soon to talk about caregiver resistance to edtech at tonight’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social tech talk! www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

Andrew del Calvo and I organized my second #AERA26 symposium today exploring past-present connections as “Civic Histories.” I’ll be sharing a paper with @lizmagill.bsky.social, @philnichols.bsky.social, and Paige Arnell that invited elementary students to inquire into a social history of technology!

Two sessions today at #AERA26! I organized a symposium for @mclsig.bsky.social that aims to Disassemble Mis/Disinformation to Reassemble Democracy. I’ll be presenting on “The Missing Politics of Mis/Disinformation” with @philnichols.bsky.social.

Parents/caregivers of school-aged children - if you’ve been working to challenge ed-tech in your kids’ schooling, please consider taking this survey! The survey will be open until April 12!

We're putting together a Critical Tech Hall of Fame! And we want you to be a part of it. Read about it here! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/welcomi...

“I want to talk about the way that the survival of the AI industry depends upon you, the generation coming of age right now, agreeing with them that you have essentially no say in your own future.” Great open letter by @civicsoftech.bsky.social partner!

Truth be told, I want to see studies that look into these emotional burdens more! It seems like with AI we’ve put emerging teachers in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t position, that isn’t super relatable for me as a seasoned teacher who feels comfortable articulating my refusal.

In this week’s blog post, @jbpleasa.bsky.social, @dankrutka.bsky.social and I distill insights from our recently published TechTrends article and discuss what we’ve been thinking about since completing this study - for those interested in challenging the labor-saving hype surrounding AI in education

Don’t forget to apply to 2026 @mediaedlab.bsky.social Graduate Symposium to join us for some incredible workshops this summer and spotlight your emerging research in our community! Applications due April 1!

Don’t forget to apply to 2026 Media Ed Lab Graduate Symposium to join us for some incredible workshops this summer and spotlight your emerging research in our community! Applications due April 1!

New article! @jbpleasa.bsky.social, @dankrutka.bsky.social, and I share insights from a collaborative self-study, in which we engage pre-service teachers in technoskeptical inquiry that questions the time-saving promises of AI for teachers.

We’re also hosting an upcoming Civics of Technology tech talk on April 15 at 8pm ET, where we’re creating a digital space for caregivers, children, adolescents, and others to gather to commiserate, share tactics, plot future actions, and enjoy each other’s company. RSVP at:

In today’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog post, @alliethrall.bsky.social and I discuss our new research project with Tony Talbert exploring when, why, how, and to what ends caregivers challenge ed-tech in their child’s or children’s school(s) in the US. 🧵

@charleswlogan.bsky.social, Tony Talbert, and I share the motivations behind our new study on how and why caregivers challenge ed-tech in schools. We share a link to our survey to participate in our study and invite everyone to join us for our ed-tech resistance-themed April 15 Tech Talk!

EdTech is NOT inevitable. Join the community. Share your work of resistance. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/caregiv...

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New study! We’re looking for caregivers/parents who have pushed back against ed-tech in schools to take our survey! Please share!

📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Beth Krone and Patricia Enciso write on “Tracing 'My Hero Academia’ Fandom Composing Practices in a Seventh-Grade Superhero Storytelling Project.” Check it out!

📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Caitlin Donovan, Janell Miller, and Hannah Moehrke write on “Potent Pedagogy for Critical Engagement: Music Videos as Texts in Secondary English Classrooms.” Check it out!

Grad students — Check out this amazing opportunity! I was fortunate enough to participate in the first @mediaedlab.bsky.social Graduate Symposium in 2024 and it’s back! Apply to join us in learning about media education together!

Coming up this week! Join our book club on Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heath. March 4th at 8pm EST Register on our Events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557018...

February Tech Talk tonight! 8:00 Eastern Time Register below to join the conversation! oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reading some of GenAI discourse #OnHere abt the tech making more work for folks and wanted to share a resource for examining claims abt tech and promises of efficiency with students. See @alliethrall.bsky.social and Paige Arnell’s unit guide on Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s book "More Work for Mother” at:

I was interviewed for this story about the bleak state of "academic freedom" in Texas universities and how AI is making things worse. Great reporting from Jessica Priest at the Texas Tribune. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:

So honored that our article “Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization,” co-authored with @philnichols.bsky.social, @quirosjulian.bsky.social, and @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social received the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association! Check it out open access!

Congrats to our guest editors @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, @rabani.bsky.social and contributor @mraleosays.bsky.social for receiving the National Technology Leadership Initiative Fellowship for their project "Digital Texts and How to Teach Them: #HackYourStack Initiative."

📚New Pub! Kicking off our guest edited special issue series on digital texts and how to teach them, @mraleosays.bsky.social writes on “Pixels, Prose, and Literary Knowledge Production: Cultivating Aesthetic Literacies Through Audiovisual Essay Composing”. Check it out!

📚New Pub! Kicking off our guest edited special issue series on digital texts and how to teach them, Emily Plummer Catena and F. Blake Tenore write on “Examining Educators’ Social Media Use to Support Digital, Civically Engaged English Teaching”. Check it out!

We've got a book club coming up on Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET! Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social Register on our events page! www.civicsoftechnology.org/events www.wiley.com/en-us/Digita...

Join us today to talk tech and education!

@civicsoftech.bsky.social is starting to host events at different times to invite people in time zones outside of the US into the conversation! Our next Tech Talk will be on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 12pm ET. Come join us to chat tech, education, current events, and more! Register here!

The final issue of our series on critical perspectives on digital platforms in ELA teacher education is published. We are so grateful to all of our brilliant contributors. Check it out!

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and @anna-phd.bsky.social write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, Dominique McDaniel and Matthew Osborn write “From Platforms to Pedagogy: Exploring How Youth’s Social Media Practices Can Shape Teacher Education Through Culturally Digitized Pedagogy.” Check it out!

"My message to parents is this: alongside teachers, your voices are crucial in holding tech companies to account for what they build, how they sell it and the values they embed in classrooms." Hear, hear!

Do you have a project (research, curriculum, advocacy) or want to distribute a call for proposals/chapters/etc? On our contact page is a Blog Post Proposal form - we welcome contributions from our community! www.civicsoftechnology.org/contact

For the blog today: An interview with @andyliddell.bsky.social! By Celeste Barber, a high school student who participated in the Digital Civics club led by @alliethrall.bsky.social ~How to challenge EdTech, just in time for back-to-school~ www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/holding...

In today's @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog: Celeste, a high school student, interviews @andyliddell.bsky.social on the work of the EdTech Law Center and to "give clarification on how education companies influence students’ futures."

I can’t tell what gives me more hope: @andyliddell.bsky.social and Julie’s work at the EdTech Law Center; or Celeste, a high school students’, brilliant engagement with their work in this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog.

AFT and university administrators may have bought into the AI hype, but we don't have to join them! A really great resource that includes a page dedicated to labor bargaining (and more evidence that the Luddites were right for fighting the obnoxious machines of automation).

You love to see it. Here's to more caregiver + teacher coalitions to fight Big Tech!

New pub! This collaboration with @neilgshanks.bsky.social and @lizmagill.bsky.social was driven by a shared desire to imagine economic inquiry that draws from students’ lives and experiences and disrupts the patriarchal assumptions in the neoclassical paradigm. Share with social studies teachers!

What do young people have to contribute to conversations about digital civic life? Check out this @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog from Digital Civics Club student, Athena! If you care to show support to this young writer in her first publication, leave a comment on the blog!

I’ve been engaging in digital civic inquiry with these brilliant young people for three years now, and I never want to stop! We’ve gotten to learn from and lean on each other during times when we need community and hope. Here are some insights from the experience…

If you're a caregiver who may have other, less techno-optimistic views of AI/GenAI, then you may be interested in the panel "Theorizing Caregiver Resistance to EdTech" that I'm convening with @alliethrall.bsky.social at next week's Civics of Technology conference. More info at: