"A challenge..is the extent to which EdTech companies and their products can genuinely offer distinct benefits over general-purpose generative AI tools for many of the functions they are developing."

*taps sign*

New policy brief: Educators should reassess the hidden impacts of ed tech ecosystems on teaching, learning, and student data. bit.ly/46C2JXT

In the age of AI, higher ed must move beyond content delivery toward interactionalism—a human-centered approach that fosters collaboration, creativity, adaptability, feedback, & well-being. This EDUCAUSE Review series will explore that in-depth, beginning with teaching & learning. buff.ly/fBXGEjS

Beyond ‘two sides’ and the ‘middle ground’ in GenAI discourse: The affordances and limits of linear reasoning models. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b...

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

“foundational to my very being: one in which, no matter the costs, principled integrity is a priority, taking a stand means standing fast, and contesting the predations of the powerful gives meaning to the lives we lead.”

Our open-access AIED commentary is out "Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings" 🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald open-publishing.org/journals/ind...

3) Discord users drafted a digital manifesto. The movement spilled into physical rallies. Nepal’s Army Chief met Discord moderators. Talks focused on transitional governance & youth demands. Days later, Sushila Karki was appointed interim Prime Minister.

In thinking through ed tech changes at my workplace we have to prep for, I’m reading Transformation Processes: From Collapse to Emergence again. I’m trying to use ‘emergence’ to help me think. www.systemsinnovation.network/posts/starte...

How rapidly our so called "leaders" are normalizing othering, hatred, racism, sexism, wars, and cruelty We might just become so numb and accept these as just given communities.springernature.com/posts/make-c...

JUST IN: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement. That’s at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated—well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial.

Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful. authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

"Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

Books take years to write. Peer review makes the process even longer. So it is uncanny how often university presses publish books that are so timely—like the forthcoming "The Hard Work of Hope" from @cornellupress.bsky.social Here is an interview with Michael Ansara by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social

On an intellectual diet of weaponry, and on resisting the computational machinery of war. *For Isaiah* 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-...

how we talk about digital practices in education. a caveat, a relic, a reckoning, and a rant walk into a bar... thinking aloud. how do YOUR experiences of digital practice/discourse align? with so much appreciation to Donna Haraway & Ursula Franklin. bonstewart.com/belonging/po... #blogging4life

What does it mean for a professor to be present for students? Here's our full conversation with Dr. Liz Norell: youtu.be/Xv6Y7tyHxH0 @liznorell.bsky.social

It is a must-read.

I am delighted to be able to say that the special issue of the @jldhe.bsky.social 'Liberating Learning' has been published today! 39 Papers 99 authors journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl... Mythbusting, compassion, care, joy and more. It doesn't have to be THAT way; it can be THIS way

Make Compassion Great Again Some ramblings on how we might survive the current wave of despair & darkness communities.springernature.com/posts/make-c...

I have a new book out today, the Portable Feminist Reader. I hope you check it out. audacity.substack.com/p/new-book-o...

Really powerful and moving words from Audrey about grief and what it means to be human. Something AI can never replicate. "Grief — one of the most powerful and harrowing experiences of humanity — mere artifice, embraced as artifice, auto-performed for admiration."

Want to learn in community over 3 months June, July and August about topics like AI in education, social justice in education, wellbeing, and imagination? Express interest in #MYFest25 to let us know how to make this a good experience for you: bit.ly/myfest25inte... via @equityunbound.bsky.social

AI agents vs agency 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/agents-versu...

dear academics, in these trying times (powered by AI & totalitarianism), let your intellectual integrity be your north star. fuck respectability politics & “neutrality”. if you can’t actively call out nazism, injustice & general toxicity, what really is the point of your privilege?

#InstructionalDesign #LearningDesign #CurriculumDesign folks: What resources do you recommend for established programmes that are looking to 'convert' to hybrid/online? e.g. @jisc.bsky.social's "Beyond blended" guide is substantive, practical, and very accessible. www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/beyon...

Criticality. What is that anyway? Warming up for the #cset2025 meet-up in Oldenburg on Friday! And it was a great warm-up to chat with @neilselwyn.bsky.social about what “critical” is doing in these kinds of phrases: critical studies of education and technology. www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

My department is running our annual Symposium in February and we will have multiple virtual sessions and a hybrid session which anyone can join. Speakers are @miazamoraphd.bsky.social on Feb 17, @bonni208.bsky.social on Feb 19 and @saraheaton.bsky.social on Feb 25. bit.ly/CLT25symposium

Against AI Shaming blog.mahabali.me/educational-... Inspired by many conversations today, including one with @annamillsoer.bsky.social who stopped when I said the term "AI Shaming" and I realized I'd been saying it but never wrote about it...

When “personalization” is ruptured // We’re all in this together 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/personalizat...

New open-access book, ‘Humane Autonomous Technology’, examines the ethical and societal impacts of AI and autonomous systems www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/theme...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

There’s no one better at surveying the state of play in the intersection of tech and education that @audreywatters.bsky.social. Subscribe to her newsletter. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/venture-capi...

I don't like to play favorites, but @bonni208.bsky.social is definitely among mine. Please have a listen to our conversation about my book, The Present Professor! 🥰 teachinginhighered.com/podcast/the-...

This really beautiful and thoughtful review of my book came out yesterday. It’s by @brennacgray.bsky.social who works at TRU. Not with me, but still. A week in, feeling good about this place. And thanks to Brenna…a year on, feeling good about the book. journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.p...

CALL FOR PAPERS - EdTech implementation research focusing on low- and middle-income countries. Abstracts by 28 Feb '25 Guest editors: Annette Zhao, Loise Gichuhi, Louis Major & me DETAILS bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Still time to submit your contribution to this new, exciting conference exploring critical perspectives on Research in Digital Learning. hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/ (Sep. 3-4, in Newcastle, UK) #digitaleducation #digitalliteracies #digitalresearch

Have we published three new collections on the UVA Teaching Hub this week? Yes, yes we have! Our newest is on reading pedagogy curated by @jenaecohn.bsky.social featuring fantastic resources for teaching critical reading skills. teaching.virginia.edu/collections/...

The book "Learning Design Voices" offers a rich array of views, experiences and scholarly reflections from a wide diversity of learning designers across the world. A hidden gem. Plus it is freely available open access edtechbooks.org/ldvoices/

4 domains of leading with kindness: Agency (sense of control over work lives); Collective effervescence (meaning & harmony in groups with shared purpose); Camaraderie (social connectedness); Positivity (optimism & caring). With 10 systems to improve staff well-being. drive.google.com/file/d/15qAu...

A blog post about Slowing Down lornamcampbell.org/women-in-tec... #femedtech #He4Good HT @sokate.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @drloumycroft.bsky.social @catherinecronin.bsky.social @czernie.bsky.social and Helen Beetham.

"Rest for its own sake. Rest for purposes that are non- -- or even anti- -- instrumentalist. All of this requires the ability to understand the value of the human in the world as about being rather than doing."

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

The deep ethics of optimism, by Antonia Malchik. antonia.substack.com/p/the-deep-e...

Yes!

Warning about the Beige Wave from @donaldhtaylor.bsky.social. "L&D needs to move away from associating itself with content, to associating itself instead with strategic business value. Content might be created along the way, but it’s a means to an end, nothing more." www.linkedin.com/posts/donald...