New in The Important Work: @thevogelman.bsky.social shares his AI Transparency Survey and writes about what he learned when he asked his 10th and 12th grade students to reflect on their AI usage. Here's a bit of what his students shared. Read it here: theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-transp...

The New York Times has verified that Trump is building a 1300 bed “accountability camp” in Utah for the homeless in accordance with his previous executive order. Trump is building concentration camps for the homeless. You have MORE IN COMMON with them than you EVER WILL with the rich. Speak out.

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

It takes a (depraved) village

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.” The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

“… it affirms what the desegregators see as an unnatural principle: that nonwhite people are equal to white people, that women are equal to men, and that LGBTQ people deserve the same rights as everyone else.”

Oh this is even worse than was shared this morning. Shoving libraries under AI. Good work, folks shoving AI into libraries. Now they're just one in the same. In an era we need to really be clear on the necessity and purpose of these democratic institutions, this is five hundred backward steps.

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

More information tomorrow about the No ICE in California Itch Charity Bundle. But for now, here is the game jam. All games on itch are welcome, please spread the word. itch.io/jam/no-ice-i...

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

Trump is attacking every source of university income (research grant cancellations, a proposed endowment tax, cutting Pell Grant eligibility and in the 'big beautiful bill' changing the student loan program). It's a declaration of fiscal war on universities with students as collateral damage.

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

"if we grade everything and then we average it all, then you focus on the grade not the learning." @lyonsletters lyonslettters.com/books #studentengagement #EduSky

Again, Brecht's line resonates: Be careful walking through Germany, with the truth under your coat.

Reminder: jury nullification won't be in your jury instructions and is not something you're allowed to talk about in court. If you bring up jury nullification during jury selection, you WILL be thrown off the jury. Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

The smartest people I know are all skeptical of A.I. My punk friends see it as a tool of oppression. My art friends see it as a creative cancer. And then there’s LinkedIn.

This is something I’m having to teach myself after grad school. Now that I’m reading more for fun, I don’t HAVE to finished everything I pick up! It’s so freeing even if it still feels like I’ll get in trouble at times 😂

“I want us to do better. I want to feel like we are responsible for each other's transformation. Not the transformation from vibrant flawed humans to bits of ash, but rather the transformation from broken people and communities to whole ones.” adrienne maree brown

The OECD has announced an international "AI literacy" assessment that could set the standard for how we think about students' engagement with AI. In this post I speculate a little about the effects of the OECD quantifying "AI literacy-as-numbers" codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/p...

How do we build more #retrievalpractice into our lessons? On the podcast, Dr. Pooja Agarwal (@retrievelearn.bsky.social), Dr. Janell Blunt, and Dr. Michelle Rivers share nine simple, easy, fun retrieval strategies that can be added to any lesson. www.cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-in...

It is eerily quiet and empty on campus today, on a week where it should be busting at the seams. I spent my lunch sitting by the Westcott fountain and it was heartbreaking to see it completely empty, a marked difference from the long lines of graduates lining up to take their iconic photos. 💔 #FSU

It's all fun and games until … "Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries." www.bbc.com/news/article...

"What is actually being changed by this thing?... What new challenges might these changes introduce? And for whom? Would addressing those challenges exacerbate, or distract us from addressing,... challenges related to quality, equitable education?" @philnichols.bsky.social on "innovation" in school

"Deep down, my hope is that this book makes it easier for education, as a field, not to get swept up in whatever the latest innovation-of-the-day is (eg MOOCs, makerspaces, the metaverse, generative AI) and, instead, to respond with questions: ... www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/buildin...

"When Google or OpenAI pushes out products or services to schools, we have no obligation to use these innovations.... Educators should feel empowered to make decisions that are driven by the values embedded in ... public education, not the growth projections of edtech futures markets." 👏👏

"Ethnic cleansing through deportation" really does capture the intent behind what's happening.

It was nice to facilitate a discussion on the intersections of pedagogy and AI at the South Central Society for Music Theory conference today! It was a great to chat about ethical and environmental concerns and we considered possible opportunities or challenges ai presents to our classrooms!

It was nice to facilitate a discussion on the intersections of pedagogy and AI at the South Central Society for Music Theory conference today! It was a great to chat about ethical and environmental concerns and we considered possible opportunities or challenges ai presents to our classrooms!

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

I've been listening to Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori's 2019 opera, Blue, this morning as I've been doing work. It never fails to make me a blubbering mess in Act 2, especially Scene 3. What a powerful piece of art.

We don't have evidence to support students using generative AI. If anything it's the opposite. And that's before we talk about its amplification of racism and misogyny, environmental degradation, theft, and worker exploitation. #EduSky youtu.be/n2W_fhaBiL0?...

There is something nefarious about how hard and fast people are pushing AI in education. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it doesn’t bode well when corporations, not student need, set the pace with which we adopt new technologies.

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I am honored to be quoted by @schooledbook.org in her post about the argument that schools need to use generative AI with kids to prepare them for the future. #EduSky annelutzfernandez.substack.com/p/resisting-...

I tend to catastrophize, but things seem to be going much worse than I imagined.

Not ChatGPT being out-AI-ed by another AI using their program and then actually caring about intellectual property 🤣🤣🤣 if I don’t stop laughing so hard I’m going to pass out www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is such a beautiful perspective on our role as educators, especially right now. May we all move forward with excess kindness ❤️

January/February me is not thrilled at December me... I was overly ambitious with scheduling workshops and reading groups and now with several weather and illness delays, its crunch time. Up first, prepping a workshop on providing feedback for learning :)

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

when you are not allowed to criticize fascism, that's a good indication you are living in a fascist state.

"The president indicated he would use emergency declarations to expedite the project’s development, particularly regarding energy infrastructure." Given what we know so far about AI, energy, and safety, this seems

Educators: AI is not inevitable. Sure, we can't put the horse back in the barn, but we also are not required to use it in our teaching and I think there is an ethical framework, as Chuck and others have laid out nicely, for resisting its presence in our courses.

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?