"...part of the crisis might very well be the response that people have had to AI, but no, I don’t think AI is the problem. I think the crisis is 25 years in the making and AI is the lens through which can finally see the problem for what it is."

In Search of quality points of contact with students. davecormier.com/edblog/2025/...

What is the word for things that are both embarrassing and exciting at the same time? As I head off for a short vacation, I, for the first time, am leaving behind a totally empty inbox.

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excited to be back in Inverness to share my research on belonging & place via the LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies series. open online presentation, tomorrow June 10: 3-4pm Scotland time, 10-11am EDT for those playing along at home :) ALL WELCOME - sign up here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/learning-...

@downes.bsky.social I'm watching stuff on your presentation and wondering if i can sneak in!

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

I heard rumour that this book review might be coming out. I can't say that there has been anything else about writing this book that had me more concerned than how this might go. I really, really hope he liked it. You can read it with me :) www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...

The hardest thing about living three hours ahead of where I work is not sending text messages to @abject.ca at 6am Pacific time when I see something cool.

Research findings that are fun to read. Imagine.

I'm presenting at TRU in 75 minutes - "One vision for thinking about Open Learning in 2025" #OEweek25 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Just watched "drive back home" www.imdb.com/title/tt2677... It's a story, from 1970, about a good old boy from Northern New Brunswick who has to go to Toronto to get his gay brother from jail. It's amazing.

I was today years old when I found out that Warren Zevon's song "Excitable Boy" is the story of the narrator from The Everly Brother's "Wake Up Little Susie." I mean. That's what the Wikipedia article seems to be saying. And Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...

This was a fun early morning read. "A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... "Conceptualising teaching as entrapment, CA is expressly and self-consciously a ‘pedagogy of confinement’"

Kamloops hike. Vol. 1

Walking in to the office this morning listening to history lectures. I'm now wondering if blindly accepting 15th century spellings for words affects the way English language speakers react to the expression "that's just the way it is". see: Knight, Gnat, enough, etc...

as the tariffs loom, i managed to process out loud (sorta) "reading 20+ books about Scottish history this past year makes me wary of assuming that the historical distinctions of a nation perched just above an Empire can be solid things, forever." bonstewart.com/belonging/po...

I'm starting to think about how I can talk about Open Learning/Education at my new job. I definitely think that one half of that is "widening participation". Things like PLAR, ZTCs lowered barriers for entry. the other half, open practices?Some of those practices work against widening participation

Four weeks in, still inbox zero(ish). First time in my life I've ever made it this far. Thanks to all of your who have encouraged it over the years.

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...

A new adventure begins. First day on site at TRU. Bags got lost en route, but my enthusiasm has not. Wish me luck :)

Looking forward to @davecormier.bsky.social coming to work at TRU. @pwmartin.bsky.social is leaving some big shoes to fill, but Dave is amazing and is going to do great work.

Hallo new peeps! I'm Dave Cormier. I alternate between talking about education and talking about my kittens at the moment. I wrote a book this year called "Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community is the Curriculum" that talks about learning and living with so much going on.

good morning from Pippa the fierce yet adorable

Am trying to finish up my Comps in my PhD program (yes, I'm still trying to get that done) and have noticed that I currently don't have a citation that starts with A. Anyway, it's bothering me. Am talking about uncertainty. Anyone have a recommendation? At all?

I wonder how many young people, right now, have been asked to 'go explore' GenAI (in academic, in corporations etc...) who don't actually understand the field/business context that they are being asked to do the research in.

Anyone have good examples of peer reviewed GenAI environmental impacts?

Resource on the impact of GenAI on the climate. pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... Note: it's not good. At all.

Clarence and Pippa. They either nap or maraud. There is no in between.

Mandatory post talking about bluesky on bluesky. The blocklist phenomenon is interesting. I followed along the first time i saw it and now its everywhere. Are you guys blocklisting?

I've gotten to participate in both the #shrugcon and one of the follow up meetings and both were fantastic. I highly recommend it. #cdnpse

I want to introduce you to #ShrugCon. It's about uncertainty. It's a series of discussions and probably a fledgling community. uncertaintycommunity.com We are all, in some way, interested in how we think about uncertainty as part of the learning process.

I have a shoulder kitten. I’m quite fond of it.

Currently playing… (do we post record selections on Bluesky?)

I have said the words ‘genai is just a symptom of a wider change that we have mostly not adapted to’ about a hundred times and never written it down. It probably needs a few disclaimers now that I see it in print. Gonna try and get to that today.

These are the vibes around here lately

We had a great time at @davecormier.bsky.social 's mini #shrugcon yesterday, thinking about uncertainty, talking about digital confidence - see our scoping review below - and chatting with fascinating people. And, perhaps most importantly, finding out how to make a tiny zine!

So… we’re doing another #shrugcon on the 7th. Lately my uncertainty thoughts have moved to assignment design. How do we support our students to choose to confront uncertainty rather than just get an answer from GenAI?

Doing some last minute tweeking to a talk on Personal Learning communities I'm doing on Tuesday and came across this gem from @nancyw.bsky.social from a 'few' years ago. fullcirc.com/wp/community... about different members you'll find in a community. So smart.

The high end skills that are needed through this Time of GenAI are the SAME ones we needed 3 years ago, plus a few technical skills. These skills replace other skills (search/web research) that we weren't thinking of as 'workforce' skills before.

Have just started digging in to the AI Mirror by @shannonvallor.bsky.social on @ammienoot.bsky.social ‘s recommendation. I’m loving the mirror metaphor for thinking about AI.

I just read another 'GenAI litearcies' post and I'm still not convinced. NotebookLM (etc) are good ways of automatically crunching texts, but I don't need a 'literacy' to do that - i just need fingers. The literacy comes from choosing texts and evaluating the results... which i had to do before.

"I had never noticed how the word belonging has ‘longing’ in it, hidden in plain sight."

Here's a notification you don't get everyday. www.audible.com/pd/Learning-.... Audiobook version of my book is live.

Had a one hour GenAI session. Threw out my slides before i started. I really need to do that more.

"First We Feast"'s Hot Ones is one of the reasons i love the Internet. Sean Evans is such a great interviewer.

writing from the road. or Scotland: three raccoons in a trench coat...and me, trying to get over the mythology of this place so i can see it. bonstewart.com/belonging/po...