One year on- the impacts of USAID's elimination: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

wapo.st/4qZxRt3 And now .. #AI pets!

This says it all about what #ech promises and what it often becomes: (Grok) launched “to accelerate human scientific discovery,” ...now willing to produce whatever content might attract and keep users. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Heartening to see how many orgs have picked up our @Brookings report on #AIED. But beyond dissemination, we need to act! www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/brookin...

Thanks to Day of AI for profiling our report dayofai.org/news/prepari.... I would add that #AIED's success also depends on its design.

The current US govt and the Republican party are murderous regimes. ICE agents, again, at point blank range murder an unarmed civilian. Can't 8 guys control one person without killing him? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

We need to be very clear about what is happening in the United States. This president has let loose a paramilitary force to kill Americans who disagree with him. It really just comes down to this: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/24/n...

#Greenland is more than a Trump fever dream. The world's largest island offers insights into #onlinelearning with a compelling #distancelearning story. I examined some of these initiatives in 2023. (P. 135 showcases Greenland). The rest of the guide examines distance ed generally: go.edc.org/07xd

AI in education: why the risks currently outweigh the promises. One of the best summaries of our AIED report so far: theeconomyofmeaning.com/2026/01/16/a...

Thanks to @npr.org for profiling our @brookings.edu study on #AIED: www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n.... Find the report here:https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-direction-for-students-in-an-ai-world-prosper-prepare-protect/

Add your name to the petition NOW and demand an END to Trump's militarized occupation in Minnesota. sign.moveon.org/petitions/mi...

Delighted to announce the publication of our @brookings.edu study on #AI in education - benefits, risks and the actions we can take to mitigate these risks. Read here: www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

An honor to contribute to HP Futures 2025 - AI and the Future of Learning: A strategic blueprint from global education experts. hpfutures.com Thanks T4 Ed & HP for the opportunity to learn from so many. Congrats @carlaaerts.bsky.social for inviting me. #HPFutures #AIinEducation #HP

How is #AI impacting #teachers and #students? Listen in to my conversation with Pepe Escamilla of Monterrey Tech for Edutrends @itesm.bsky.social music.youtube.com/watch?v=LxZe... #AIED #GAIED #AIinEducation

I thought #Republicans were opposed to cancel culture. Shame on @abcnetwork.bsky.social and on the @Federal Communications Commission.

Tragic: Food rots in US warehouses while children in Africa go hungry. Musk, Trump and Rubio's cruelty: www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

Looks like the 10 year proposed moratorium on #AI regulation is gone from #OBBA-- the result of a lot of push back. Last month, 40 Republican and Democratic attorneys general sent a letter to members of Congress calling for them to kill the ban on AI state laws. www.wired.com/story/ai-mor...

So much for the " waste" part of WF&A: wapo.st/4ehb7zt

#NoKings in #Boston. Since today was also the #Pride parade, it was more #NoKings only Queens!

As Elon Musk leaves US government work ( good riddance) his legacy is the death of 300,000 people ( so far) -- and a savings that is less than @USAID's total budget www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

If you're interested in/affected by the elimination of US #foreignaid, particularly #USAIS 's gutting, check out this @propublica.org webinar tomorrow, April 23 #MillenniumChallengeCorporation www.propublica.org/events/insid...

Today—Earth Day 2025—a new urban trail across Boston green spaces is born. The City On The Hills Trail, which runs 31.1 miles from Millennium Park in West Roxbury to Castle Island is officially open to the walking public! www.bostontrails.org/cityonthehil...

Snapchat’s #AI isn’t just a chatbot—it’s a vector for industrial-scale adolescent exploitation. Jonathan Haidt unpacks how it monetizes teen vulnerability at scale. A must for those who care about youth, #tech & ill effects of # #socialmedia open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... #Snapchat #EdTech

Pt 4- In God, Human, Animal, Machine, Meghan O’Gieblyn traces how #AI has inherited the metaphysical longings of religion, encoding spiritual hopes into this tech. Interesting perspectives. For these authors, we reify technology in our own images to attain consciousness, eternal life, omniscience.

Pt 3- Ann Foerst calls this a dehumanizing turn: if we assume we can build intelligent machines in our image, we risk reducing ourselves to mere mechanisms—“bags of skin that can be rebuilt.”

Pt 2-Jaron Lanier writes that the dream of uploading ourselves into machines is a kind of new religion—one that treats information as real and alive. In this worldview, humans become fleeting fragments while digital bits are granted vitality.Ann Foerst calls out this dehumanization...

Pt 1- Lately I’ve been reading authors who explore the intersection of #technology and religion—how visions of #AI and #transhumanism ( the underlying foundation of Neuralink) often mirror spiritual narratives. For many techies, belief in technology approaches religious fervor and is very doctrinal.

#AIED poses risks for #teachers AND #students--alienation, dependence, loss of confidence, creativity & fraying of #teaching identity. We need to keep #eyeswideopen to this threat. #AIinEducation #TeachingMatters #EthicalEdTech www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Meu capítulo sobre os riscos da IA generativa na educação. Não são só os alunos que perdem—nos professores também podemos perder autonomia, propósito e conexão com nosso trabalho se nāo mantermos #OlhosBemAbertos #IAnaEducação #EducaçãoHumanizada #Docência www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Of course! Why would we even WANT to train teachers??? Trump officials ask Supreme Court to allow canceling of teacher grants www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Go #Canada: youtu.be/_OzbmriDgQc?...

The snitch state is upon us. In Texas you can report women you suspect of having an abortion and now @usedgov.bsky.social has launched a website where you can report anyone teaching DEI. Stalin and Castro would be proud.

I have never been as ashamed to be an American as I am today. The president of an allied nation attacked n by our historic enemy, was bullied, berated and lied to by two quislings and Putin puppets, Agent Orange & JD Vance (who is even our despicable because he's cynical). Call your senators!

Allston-Brighton Community Plan update - stay tuned and let's shape a better future for AB! mailchi.mp/boston/allst...

From @timothysnyder.bsky.social The United States cannot deal with adversaries without qualified civil servants in the departments of government that deal with money, weapons, and intelligence. All of these are being gutted and/or run by people who lack anything vaguely resembling competence.

I've always believed that #foreignaid lacked a narrative and that this would ultimately hurt those of us who work in the field plus places we work. This is a much better argument for #aid than anything I've read thus far: www.persuasion.community/p/trumps-wre...

What's a pre-mortem & how can it help us understand the benefits & risks of #AI? Read more in this @brookings.edu article www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Gracias Telefónica por publicar este artículo de reflexión basada en mi capítulo sobre #IA en la #educación! You can find the English - language chapter here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... I hope you find this examination of how #AI poses risks to #teachers and #teaching to be useful.

How does foreign aid work? And no, Elon, they are not radicals. They follow government accountability rules medium.com/@mcburns/why...

Well, this is horrifying: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

As 2024 closes, thanks to SilverLiningforLearning, Indiana U, U of Lisbon, IREX, Conselho Nacional de Educação (Portugal) International School of Science Education, Ecuador Min of Ed, U.S. State Dep for inviting me to share insights on teacher quality, technology, online learning & edtech research.

Honored that both my posts from this year were featured among GPE's top 15 blogs of the year. What an honor to have the opportunity to contribute to the greater conversation on #education. Thank you GPE readers and Global Partnership for Education for this www.globalpartnership.org/blog/top-15-...

How fun to have my two blogs from this year be in Global Partnership for Education's top 15 blogs! www.globalpartnership.org/blog/top-15-...

2/2 If you are interested in participating in this study, contact me here! #GAIED #AIED #GenAI #AI #Education

1/2 We're all excited about the promise of #GenAI but we should be mindful of potential ill effects: www.brookings.edu/articles/the...