This month's Tech Talk is on Tuesday, December 2 at 8:00 Eastern Time. Hope to see you there!
You can register here:
oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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This month's Tech Talk is on Tuesday, December 2 at 8:00 Eastern Time. Hope to see you there!
You can register here:
oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
From @eam0.bsky.social :
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/welcome...
EdTech is in our lives from the very beginning. Michelle Ciccone writes about becoming a Civics of Tech parent and bearing witness to tech mediation in the first year of life.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/reflect...
We've got a book club coming up on Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET!
Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social
Register on our events page!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
www.wiley.com/en-us/Digita...
How can we make GenAI an object of critique in the K-12 classroom? Samantha Serrano shares a lesson from her teaching practice in today's blog:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/meet-al...
Tech Talk today! At 12:00 PM ET
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Today for the blog: If EdTech is the hero, is the teacher the villain?
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/edtechs...
Special Friday blog post on a timely topic!
Trent Wintermeier writes about the recent AWS event and its implications for education
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/where-t...
Today, Jean Ryoo and Jane Margolis share the story of translating their graphic novel Power On!
They write about their process as well as the profound significance of this translation work.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/why-tra...
Maybe of interest to the @civicsoftech.bsky.social and #literacies communities and others concerned about the growing influence of private tech in public schools.
29.09.2025 22:53 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I drafted this @civicsoftech.bsky.social post a few weeks ago and what was true then is true now: we can and should resist AI hype with laughter - and @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social show us how to combine serious analysis with serious fun on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000.
05.10.2025 13:17 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0Morganβs Bitmoji waving hi from a tent flap. Bio: Board Member Dr. Morgan C. Banville (she, her) is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and first-generation college student. Her research and teaching are defined by the intersection of technical communication and surveillance studies, often informed by feminist methodologies. She examines how biometric technologies are implemented in diverse contexts, and her research was awarded the 2024 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication, and the 2024 Best Research Article Award from the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). You can find her recent work in the Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical & Professional Communication, Surveillance & Society, Programmatic Perspectives, and more. She is a coffee enthusiast, hiker, and loves to travel. You can find her on Bluesky @banvillemorgan.
I am so excited to join the Board at @civicsoftech.bsky.social! This group has done some empowering, coalitional work that really resonates with my own values as a teacher-scholar. I'm looking forward to contributing to the abundance of resources, blogs, projects, and more. Stay tuned ποΈ
05.10.2025 22:52 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Next up is Dr. Roderic Crooks on "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." This one is for you #EduSky #literacies @civicsoftech.bsky.social and more! Hope you can make it!
07.10.2025 16:12 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0@civicsoftech.bsky.social is starting to host events at different times to invite people in time zones outside of the US into the conversation! Our next Tech Talk will be on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 12pm ET. Come join us to chat tech, education, current events, and more! Register here!
09.10.2025 23:00 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Seems like a good time to note that I'll be leading an online @civicsoftech.bsky.social book group for Neil Selwyn's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tuesday, November 11, at 7pm CT.
Registration info at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
We are here to help. In fact, we have a curriculum for it that includes a Luddite inquiry: www.civicsoftechnology.org/curriculum π¨
16.10.2025 23:57 β π 20 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1Book club tonight!
Come and discuss Culpability, led by Erin Anderson, at 8:00 ET
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/3220332388...
Or visit our Events page
www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
www.spiegelandgrau.com/culpability
Out of the goodness of their hearts, big tech makes "offerings" to education. Free gifts, infused with religious language. What could go wrong?
Marte Henningsen investigates
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/take-me...
Our next Tech Talk is THIS TUESDAY (October 7)
Here's the registration link. Our apologies for not having this link live until today. We hope you can join!
oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Today!
@charleswlogan.bsky.social shares his recent experiences on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! Read about it on our blog, and go check out the episode if you haven't already
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/learnin...
Today for the CoT blog, Julie Smith shares a truly fascinating resource. Full of interviews and case studies that show how teachers are thinking about and wrestling with AI technologies in schools. Read the blog post to learn more!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/announc...
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Of interest to the @civicsoftech.bsky.social community too!
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.
this exists it is called thinking
20.09.2025 12:15 β π 33551 π 6185 π¬ 85 π 320Speaking of @neilselwyn.bsky.social, check out today's blog post with Adriana Szili sharing "New resources for teachers and student teachers: AI Dilemmas": www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2dp8ng2...
Materials include posters, handouts, & slides to help reflect on real-world dilemmas of AI in edu.
A photograph of me holding the book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" by Neil Selwyn.
New @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club!
I'm leading a discussion of @neilselwyn.bsky.social's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tues, Nov 11, from 8-9pm ET. Dr. Selwyn will be joining us too.
Register at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
ππ«π€ No AI Gods, No AI Masters π€π«π
I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) β and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...
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Today, @olivia.science and her colleagues speak about their efforts to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. Read all about it in today's blog, and see their open letter below:
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...
In today's @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog: Celeste, a high school student, interviews @andyliddell.bsky.social on the work of the EdTech Law Center and to "give clarification on how education companies influence studentsβ futures."
17.08.2025 14:04 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0I canβt tell what gives me more hope: @andyliddell.bsky.social and Julieβs work at the EdTech Law Center; or Celeste, a high school studentsβ, brilliant engagement with their work in this weekβs @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog.
17.08.2025 14:12 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Putting together resources for a Critical EdTech grad course I'm teaching this fall, and definitely using some of the keynotes from @civicsoftech.bsky.social conferences. The 2023 keynote from @lucipangrazio.bsky.social is a gem!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/2023conference