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...

A special blog contribution on our conference theme of communal resistance to artificial systems! Hear how Chris Miciek, Amy Smith, and Monique Sample are building resistance in career development. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/buildin...

Read this in a published research study (about an "intelligent tutoring system") and just can't get it out of my head.

Today, @tommullaney.bsky.social shares his epic journey out from the edtech fold --- and gives some advice for others who might follow that path. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/from-fa...

Nobody really wants AI overviews... and yet people use them anyway... This will not be the only place where this happens www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Had my engineering students look at a bunch of organizations/companies' sustainability statements yesterday. I was impressed by the critical lenses they brought to the task, calling out all kinds of self-serving nonsense. Young people giving me hope!

Join us for some "empowering, grounding, and even joyful" AI hype resistance! Tomorrow, July 22, at 8pm ET, I'm hosting the virtual @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club for The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social . Registration details at: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

And just a reminder that we're running a book club this Tuesday for The AI Con! Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

For the CoT blog, @autumm.org writes about the meaning of Open Education in a world of AI. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/from-ac...

We've got a Tech Talk this week! Tuesday, July 8 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time Come join the conversation oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you thought the free, online @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference keynotes - Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard - were 🔥🔥🔥, you should look at the incredible sessions occurring on July 31 and August 1. Love to see all the ways folks embraced the theme "Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems".

If you're an educator in search of an antidote to AI hype and technosolutionism writ large, may I suggest @civicsoftech.bsky.social? Here's more about our community and our work. 🧵 #EduSky

“I assume everybody is just as lazy and incurious as me, and truly loathes actual reading” is the hollow foundation that the whole LLM Adoption house of cards is built on

Just a reminder that we've got a book club tomorrow evening! We'll be discussing Mind Amplifier 8:00-9:00 Eastern Time Register using this link: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Last call for session proposals! If you'd like to be a presenter at our 2025 conference, today's the day! You can send in your proposal at our conference page. (You can register there, too!) www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

Sharing this recent article from work that we've been doing on getting technoskepticism into our edtech courses. How do we get future teachers to QUESTION edtech? citejournal.org/volume-25/is...

“‘Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area,’ Ravi V. Bellamkonda, executive vice president and provost, said.” 😵

A reminder that submissions to this year's @civicsoftech.bsky.social free, online conference are due on Saturday, June 14. This year's 🔥🔥🔥 keynotes are Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard . The theme is Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems. Submit here: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

In today's post, Jordan Allison addresses broader currents in research on educational computing - and establishes a venue for sharing scholarship that takes a more critical stance: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reorien...

Important reporting on this topic from Natasha Singer. This piece really lays out the narratives being told about chatbot tech in higher ed --- at least, the narratives being told by tech companies and the administrators in their thrall. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

What do Muppets and AI have in common? Read today's blog post to find out! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/muppets...