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:

Mark your calendars! July 31-Aug. 1 is the @civicsoftech.bsky.social annual conference. It’s free and virtual!

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉 It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality. www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...

📚 Check out another new pub from our special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: “Teachers’ Orientations Toward Texts and Tools: Critical (Re)Consideration of a Remix and Restory Assignment as a Teacher Educator."

📚 From our ongoing special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: “Exploring Ethics of Multimodal Composition with AI: Student and Educator Perspectives on Evaluating and Using Generative Models in the Classroom."

My first article in LMT! We discuss Delanda’s theory of “parametrization” as offering a useful methodological tool for multiscalar digital inquiry.

Oh, and don't forget we've got a call out for conference proposals! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

Thrilled to share "Parametrizing 'the digital': Education research methods for platform ecologies" — new from me, Robert LeBlanc, and @alliethrall.bsky.social in @lmt-journal.bsky.social. Paywalled now, but will be OA soon (reach out for a PDF in the meantime) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Let's talk about this idea of "innovation" in schools. What does it mean? How does it play out? Who decides what's innovative? @jbpleasa.bsky.social talks with @philnichols.bsky.social about "Building the Innovation School" - our next book club book! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/buildin...

📚 And another: "Empowering ELA Teachers: Recommendations for Teacher Education in the AI Era" from Kennedy & Castek reveals how teachers are often positioned as objects rather than decision-makers in AI discourse. Read here: tinyurl.com/sza442zb

📚 From our ongoing special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: "Becoming a Teacher of Writing in an AI-Assisted World" by Kershen & Johnson examines the need for stronger theoretical perspectives on teacher identity re: AI writing platforms. Read more: tinyurl.com/2vcfrk6z

Grateful that I got to think through “platformed privatization” with @philnichols.bsky.social in our newly published chapter in the Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization! Check it out!

"All told, while GenAI offers different ways for teachers to get their work done, the promise of less work (or less stressful and onerous work) seems dubious," writes @neilselwyn.bsky.social.

Later today I’ll be hosting and presenting at the first ever Media Ed Lab Graduate Symposium virtual round table. Click the link below to register and pop in to join the conversation! baylor.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join me and @philnichols.bsky.social tonight!

One week from today! Time to start reading The Propagandists' Playbook if you haven't started already! Register to attend the book club on Feb. 18 here: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

Check out this upcoming book - that ToC! - edited by @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social. Thanks to @jmhiggs.bsky.social and @sepehrvakil.bsky.social for the chance to collaborate and consider where a literacy framework may be useful - and perhaps less so - for computing education.

Check out my and @philnichols.bsky.social's teaser for the next Civics of Tech book club, discussing The Propagandists’ Playbook by @ftripodi.bsky.social! Join us on February 18 at 8pm EDT (registration link in blog post)!

New article from me, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, and @anterobot.bsky.social on the evolution of "Luddism" as a social identification and its potentials (and limits) for organizing resistance to automation in education today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Paywalled, but reach out for a PDF!

*New publication alert* Writing with @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social, we trace three waves of Luddism to articulate the possibilities - and pitfalls - of a contemporary Luddite identity and praxis in the struggle against automation and obnoxious machines in education.

Excited to share that @ftripodi.bsky.social will join us to discuss her incredible book, The Propagandists’ Playbook, for our next @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club, hosted by me and @philnichols.bsky.social! Grab a copy and register at www.civicsoftechnology.org/events to join us on February 18

Read my, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, and @philnichols.bsky.social 3rd and final (for now) post in the Civics of Tech parent blog series! This was a real labor of love thinking through my own role and commitments as a parent to advancing more critical approaches to edtech in schooling.

I do not like AI in my pils. I do not want to drink that swill. I do not like AI here or there. I do not like that garbage anywhere. I do not like AI enshittification. I do not like AI, Sam Altman.

Generative AI produces problems of trust for higher education. How can we navigate those issues? In today's blog post, @mgoudz.bsky.social discusses the importance of creating space to investigate this question in community. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/beyond-...

NEW 📚“Handbook of Children and Screens” is out! I co-authored a chapter titled "The state of educational technology research and practice." The handbook includes imminent scholars such as Jean Twenge, Safiya Noble, Sonia Livingstone. Download ➡️bit.ly/handbook-of-children-and-screens @childrenscreens