2025 - What a year it was! Here's our roundup of 2025's most-read blog posts, new curriculum resources, reviews, and more. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2025-a-...

Today, Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld examines recent "partnerships" between universities and big tech. Who do such deals serve? www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/when-ed...

Put this on your calendar for January! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/join-us...

Book Club Day! 10:30 AM Eastern Time Join us to talk about Dan McQuillan's Resisting AI Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

Today, Evan Shieh shares the work of the Young Data Scientists League. Data is power! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/data-is...

EdTech is in our lives from the very beginning. Michelle Ciccone writes about becoming a Civics of Tech parent and bearing witness to tech mediation in the first year of life. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reflect...

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...

How can we make GenAI an object of critique in the K-12 classroom? Samantha Serrano shares a lesson from her teaching practice in today's blog: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/meet-al...

Tech Talk today! At 12:00 PM ET Register here: oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today for the blog: If EdTech is the hero, is the teacher the villain? www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/edtechs...

Great article by Natasha Singer. The appearance of Matter and Space was particularly wild! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

💀 "With all the video games, the cellphones you have to compete against, the kids are always saying, 'I'm bored.' Everything is boring," Aguirre said. "If you can find ways to engage them with new technology, you've just got to do that." www.ksl.com/article/5139...

Today, Jean Ryoo and Jane Margolis share the story of translating their graphic novel Power On! They write about their process as well as the profound significance of this translation work. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/why-tra...

Book club tonight! Come and discuss Culpability, led by Erin Anderson, at 8:00 ET Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/3220332388... Or visit our Events page www.civicsoftechnology.org/events www.spiegelandgrau.com/culpability

Out of the goodness of their hearts, big tech makes "offerings" to education. Free gifts, infused with religious language. What could go wrong? Marte Henningsen investigates www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/take-me...

Our next Tech Talk is THIS TUESDAY (October 7) Here's the registration link. Our apologies for not having this link live until today. We hope you can join! oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today! @charleswlogan.bsky.social shares his recent experiences on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! Read about it on our blog, and go check out the episode if you haven't already www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/learnin...

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

Today for the CoT blog, Julie Smith shares a truly fascinating resource. Full of interviews and case studies that show how teachers are thinking about and wrestling with AI technologies in schools. Read the blog post to learn more! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/announc...

Just finished reading this and... wow. Not that I had all that much confidence in pharma to begin with, but holy hell. This book is incredibly well researched and eye opening. Go read it. Seriously. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647408...

Speaking of @neilselwyn.bsky.social, check out today's blog post with Adriana Szili sharing "New resources for teachers and student teachers: AI Dilemmas": www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2dp8ng2... Materials include posters, handouts, & slides to help reflect on real-world dilemmas of AI in edu.

Google backtracked after I tipped the Washington Post to how they were pushing AI functionality during exams. wapo.st/47OPRzL

“Chrome’s cheating tool exemplifies Big Tech’s continuing gold rush approach to AI: launch first, consider consequences later and let society clean up the mess.”

Choice quote from @linkletter.org

Today, @olivia.science and her colleagues speak about their efforts to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. Read all about it in today's blog, and see their open letter below: openletter.earth/open-letter-... www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

I'm teaching a course that's all about questioning EdTech hype. 100% gonna have my students listen to this.

This made me think about Design Justice and the perils of "co-design" with community. While it can appear like a good thing, it can easily become extractive when the expertise of a community is leveraged for the profit of the designers (which are rarely returned to the community).

Thank you, @bloomberg.com, for quoting @charleswlogan.bsky.social and shouting out @civicsoftech.bsky.social. Teachers should follow both for an equity-informed vision of technology in schools. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

What's on your mind? Read anything good? Bad? Thought-provoking? Had a good conversation? A head-scratching experience? Come to our Tech Talk today and join the community conversation. No agenda. Just humans. oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today, Nicky Agate shares a great opportunity to contribute resources to the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies. Read to learn more! Contributors can submit through September 17. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/project...

Hey Chicagoland - and beyond! - I'll be joining @chihacknight.org on Tuesday, September 16, to talk about the work of @civicsoftech.bsky.social. Details at:

@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social's latest newsletter is unnerving, eye-opening, and important. As always, she manages to put troubling developments into proper perspective. educationwars.substack.com/p/is-public-...

Not sure how instructors don’t care that they are building the case for being replaced by Claude.

Today for the blog! @jenniferelemen.com writes about education for AI justice Read about her approach to the work and some of the initiatives that she is contributing to. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/designi...

Two new fossil gas plants :(

"We need stop pretending that generative AI tools are doing anything other than acting as a substitute for the effortful thinking that we want students to be undertaking so as to build their own knowledge, in their own heads, in their own minds." open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

The video from this event is surreal. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

Putting together resources for a Critical EdTech grad course I'm teaching this fall, and definitely using some of the keynotes from @civicsoftech.bsky.social conferences. The 2023 keynote from @lucipangrazio.bsky.social is a gem! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2023conference

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...

Out of the kindness of their hearts... "Google will make Google AI tools and training available for 12 months to all Oklahoma-based college students" www.oklahoman.com/story/busine...

Played around with GPT-5. It is indeed more technically capable than its predecessors. From an educational perspective, this changes.... basically nothing. The technical capabilities are [still] not the issue.

What an absolutely lovely post.

OpenAI claims to be pursuing a "moonshot" in education. Today I provide a short annotated guide to what that "moonshot" entails, with nods to @mikecaulfield.bsky.social @simonwillison.net @audreywatters.bsky.social @leonfurze.com @janerosenzweig.bsky.social and especially @heymrsbond.com

The CSM report identifies conditions under which AI could be useful, but I wish it provided better guidance than this. I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm not sure that educators can readily tell when these conditions are being met.

A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.

Our next Tech Talk is this Tuesday, from 8-9 PM Eastern. Share what you learned at our conference! (Or lament that you had to miss it) You can register using the link below. oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What does it look like to do critical tech studies with high school students? @alliethrall.bsky.social, @philnichols.bsky.social, and Kevin Magill share their exciting project in today's Newsletter. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/introdu...

Happy Friday and Day 2 of our conference! Get excited for our Day 2 keynote: the one and only @hypervisible.bsky.social Starting in less than 30 minutes!!!

So grateful to @audreywatters.bsky.social and her #CivicsOfTech25 keynote, where she encouraged us to fight for education that is slow, common, shared, caring, meaningful, brave, and truly in love with the world and the future. And, always: “The way to get to know a student is to talk with them.”

Hear from Michelle Reed, Hayley Park, Justin White, and Mike Nason about how to work with librarians to pursue: Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...