BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about

Another new article out. The last part in a trilogy of what we’re getting horribly wrong when it comes to online course design. Abandon the search for best practices! Course designers at work: a critical case study of optimization in online course design rdcu.be/epaCt #EduSky #EdTech #eLearning

The Journal of Applied Instructional Design 14(2) is now available, containing the proceedings of the 2024 AECT annual convention. jaid.edtechbooks.org/jaid_14_2 #EdTech #AcademicSky #EduSky #eLearningDesign #LearningSciences

They could have pulled a Weekend at Bernie’s for the entirety of Biden’s presidency and it still would have been better than what we have now.

I guess the reason I'm not worried about #AI taking my job is that after 70 years of trying, the best we've done is an almost-sophisticated version of the Eliza chatbot. #EdTech #eLearning

New pub alert! One of the most important I've been part of: Schmidt, M., McDonald, J. K., & Moore, S. (2025). The research we don’t need will persist until we dismantle the systems that sustain it. Journal of Computing in Higher Education. doi.org/10.1007/s125... #AcademicSky #EdTech #eLearning

Verdad

My latest email to my senators: a 🧵. Hey John, it's time for some tough love. Donald Trump doesn't respect you. To the extent he thinks of you at all, he thinks you're a sucker--so sure you're important, but in his mind nothing more than a little dog that rolls over to ask him to scratch your belly.

New publication: Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters. rdcu.be/ekuFN #EdTech #AcademicSky #eLearningDesign

Congratulations to the Trump administration on another historic first!

Seems kinda like bragging about how many people you hit while drunk driving.

I was prepared for the fascism from the new administration, but I don't think I was quite prepared for everyone else in a position of influence to be such complete cowards.

Volume 14 issue 1 of the Journal of Applied Instructional Design has been published. Check it out here: jaid.edtechbooks.org/jaid_14_1 #EdTech #LearningDesign #AcademicSky

Please consider attending the OTESSA-US: Research, Design, and Policy Colloquium 2025, to be held in Santa Fe, NM on June 5-6, 2025. More details at the link below! otessa.org/2025/santa-f... #EduSky #AcademicSky #EdTech #HigherEd

The Journal of Applied Instructional Design is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on the topic of practice-based scholarship. See the attached CfP for more details. #EdTech #LearningDesign #InstructionalDesign #AcademicSky

“I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers” 💣💥🔥 #requiredreading

Volume 13 issue 4 of the Journal of Applied Instructional Design is now live. This special issue covers Designing Extended Reality (XR) Environments and Experiences for Authentic Learning. jaid.edtechbooks.org/jaid_13_4 #EdTech #LearningDesign #AcademicSky #eLearningDesign #InstructionalDesign

Reporter: Who gets credit for this? You or Trump? Biden: Is that a joke?

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts." Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

How come when I search in Outlook it shows me emails from 2013 that don’t include any of the words I searched for? How come when I search for emails from a certain person it shows me other people who maybe mentioned that guy, but not anything from the guy themselves?

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

every tech company in 2025

Every tech company in Silicon Valley this week.

OM NOM NOM

Colin Farrell's transformation into the penguin is remarkable

"I assumed he was looking for a wife of taste and sophistication, who was a dead ringer for Tippi Hedren; instead he wanted to marry a curtain-wearing religious fanatic who shouts every word she says." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-r...

one thing we don't talk about is that as everything is turned into an app we are increasingly giving control of our world and how we interact with it to a small group of engineers who don't really consider any of it in wider context and are just trying to push some code to meet their sprint deadline

Ok, cool, so artificial general intelligence isn't anything that actually is intelligent? But is just something that makes a lot of money? Under capitalism I guess we shouldn't have expected anything else.

Everyone In Restaurant Jealous Of Toddler Who Gets To Wear Pajamas And Watch iPad theonion.com/everyone-in-...

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it? ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

The Twelve Days of Christmas loses its charm about a quarter of the way through the first verse.

babies have had a free ride for too long like and repost if you agree

There are a lot of things I love about my job. But near the top has got to be the freedom to just take some time off right before Christmas, without worrying about whether I've saved up enough vacation hours. #AcademicSky

Thinking that #EdTech or #AI will revolutionize, or reinvent, education seems like a pretty shallow idea of what a revolution actually is. The revolution I want is to force corrupt state legislators out of our schools. Then we’d see the power of education really unlocked. #AcademicSky

Opinion | Elon Musk's brilliance starts with letting his lieutenants run the day-to-day of his most valuable properties, whether that's Linda Yaccarino (X), Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX), or Donald Trump (United States of America).

"Maximizing shareholder value" has got to be about the stupidest idea a human being has ever come up with.

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

every time I read a story about OpenAI I wonder what is the point of like, morals and ethics anymore

Well this was not unexpected.

Just to see what would happen, I asked ChatGPT to generate an assignment for my learning design class to demonstrate why GenAI doesn't learn in any meaningful sense. #EdTech #AcademicSky #EduSky

Really bummed that the best Christmas movie of the past decade isn’t streaming anywhere convenient.

YouTube just showed me a 30 second ad before my 15 second video.