To all those Catholics still saying "America first," I would like to remind you that the official teaching of the Catholic Church is "the poor first." And neither Christ nor the Church are bound by borders.

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

A long read but Mike Lewis has something here in this analytical framework drawing from Lévi-Strauss. Recommended. "John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts" wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

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OpenAI is a social arsonist - as Dr. Chris Gilliard reminds us - and the company's attempts to capture education with its "free" version of ChatGPT for teachers should, IMO, be met with vocal resistance and refusal if we as educators are to care for our students, their communities, and our planet.

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

Excited to dive into "Inclusive Online Teaching" by Katherine McAlvage & Nadia Jaramillo Cherrez and grateful that the authors & Oregon State made it open access! open.oregonstate.education/teachingonli...

Congrats to Drs. Rebecca M. Reese & Amy Lomellini for putting this OPEN resource out into the world! It was an honour to write the prologue for this fantastic & much needed text. Advancing Accessibility: Practical Strategies for Instructional Designers and Educators edtechbooks.org/accessibility

Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this.

Sneak Preview of “Learning Designers in Context” Over the last few weeks, I have re-read the proofs of my forthcoming book "Learning Designers in Contexts" so many times that I honestly I feel I could recite some of the chapters. Due to some communication issues, the release date has been pushed…

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Only one week left to apply for the Center for Grading Reform's Alternative Grading Institute! This two-day, hands-on, virtual experience offers opportunities to connect grading with your values and design an alt grading system for one of your courses. www.centerforgradingreform.org/alternative-...

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Our second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉 Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance. Read and share! growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...

Wtf When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect. Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man. (Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)

Are you ready to align your grading practices with your values? Join us December 17–18 for the Alternative Grading Institute (online), which will bring together faculty from across higher education for a two-day, hands-on experience in standards-based, specifications, and collaborative grading.

there's a certain kind of tech high priest who also seems constantly shocked and offended that a lot of people don't buy their "we have to bring this glorious new tech into being for the greater good, which will also result in me becoming unfathomably wealthy and you losing your job" sales pitch

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

ChatGPT is "a clear-cut moral abomination and a logical culmination of modern surveillance capitalism. It is the direct result of tech companies producing products that seek to extract attention and value from vulnerable users, and then harming them grievously." Educators, we must refuse OpenAI.

Our relationships with our students are sacred. Our relationship to capitalism is not. Teaching is not efficient.

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget: "DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding." public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

Here's a thread about a virtual conference that's actually accessible. How? Because it was designed and executed by disabled people who care about access and know what it takes to build meaningful community. Take notes. 1/11

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

AI can try to summarise Wikipedia articles but the detailed recaps of DC Comics crossovers will defeat it like the Russian winter defeated Napoleon

the only thing that allows teachers to spend more time focusing on individual students is smaller class sizes, but sure, let's try magic beans.

Incredibly saddened by this loss. 😢 apnews.com/article/bria...

you don't have to acknowledge the legit use cases for AI when you hate on AI. you can just hate. the legit use cases will be fine

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

The Catholic Church has been fairly consistent about this for awhile. I think the adage that the Church “thinks in centuries” actually helps in disconnecting tech from its novelty and being clear-eyed that genAI is an anti-labor tool.

I'm seeing more and more people coming to the realization that student misuse of AI is a problem in large part because grades are a problem. My students and I came to this conclusion *two years ago*--and we wrote something about it! emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

We are right at one month away from the 2025 Grading Conference (June 11--13), and have just posted the schedule. Check out all the amazing presentations we will have this year! www.centerforgradingreform.org/grading-conf...

As far as its funders are concerned, the purpose of AI is literally and explicitly to oppress labour. If you wanna post how LLMs are useful for something and you ignore the literal reason for all that funding, you’re whitewashing and you know it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"What makes me angry is a society that has so few values, such an attenuated sense of human worth and flourishing, that it jumps to sell off the brains and potential of its young people for — what? A technological fad?" Preach! @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

The move to push LLMs into everything is like a giant game of Jenga, where the technology is used as an excuse to keep removing humans from essential roles, while placing pretend computer people on top of everything until it all collapses.

'Questions for Anthropic (or any other LLM-pusher)'. Sharing the questions I prepared for a panel about Claude in education, in case they're useful to anyone else resisting the narrative of AI inevitability danmcquillan.org/questions_fo...

Jason Mantzoukas on Taskmaster?! Yes, please and hey nongman! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3u...

Sacrilege - the use of AI in the classroom can’t be divorced from what it’s enabled in the hands of terrible people. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/...

EdTech salesperson writing a pitch: “If this dude can rewrite HUD regulations with AI, just imagine what it can do for your students in BIO 202!”

Nearby Burger King has failed to elect a new ruler. www.wyff4.com/article/burg...

This video, on Meta's data center in Mansfield, Georgia, is really good public communication from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...

By @techtonicjustice.bsky.social (via @alexhanna.bsky.social). "government officials, landlords, employers, educators...who use AI to make decisions don’t announce it. This guide is...to help you figure out if AI is being used & what you can do about it." www.techtonicjustice.org/resources/ti...

A new CV section for UNINVITED talks. List of instances I’ve accidentally lectured in unwanted contexts