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And if you missed Day 1, we have a recording available on the Privacy page

Privacy — Civics of Technology

Be sure to catch Day 2 of our Privacy Week webinars!

Thursday, Jan 29 from 6:00-7:30 PM EST

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To hear more from Jamie and others, come to our Privacy Week Webinars!

Day 1, January 22, 6:00-7:30 EST: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Day 2, January 29, 6:00-7:30 EST: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

www.civicsoftechnology.org/privacy

To hear more from Jamie and others, come to our Privacy Week Webinars!

Day 1, January 22, 6:00-7:30 EST: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Day 2, January 29, 6:00-7:30 EST: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

www.civicsoftechnology.org/privacy

Sleights of hand: What library patron data is PII (and what isn’t) — Civics of Technology An overview of privacy scholarship from one of the speakers from our first webinar during Privacy Week! Register to learn more!

Today, from Jamie Taylor:

"...the best we can do, often, to maintain the kind of privacy library we have long told readers they can expect is to browbeat vendors into acting right, and that it only rarely works."

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When Copilot is the Data Analyst — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

What's the scarier prospect?

That chatbots are analyzing people's data? Or that this practice is seen as unremarkable?

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First Tech Talk of 2026 this Thursday, Jan 8 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.

Join in for some conversation about... whatever is on your mind!

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First Tech Talk of 2026 this Thursday, Jan 8 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.

Join in for some conversation about... whatever is on your mind!

Register here: oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

2025: A Year of Civics of Tech — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

2025 - What a year it was!

Here's our roundup of 2025's most-read blog posts, new curriculum resources, reviews, and more.

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Thinking Critically About AI: A New Critical Quotes Classroom Activity — Civics of Technology by Dan Krutka and Marie Heath with Danielle Peck When we first developed the Critical Technology Quotes , we sought to create a simple entry point for students to gather a range of critical perspe...

The ever-popular Critical Tech Quotes activity now has an "AI Edition" - Read all about it in today's blog post!

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Citizens Without the Digital: A Call for Resistance in a Collective Way  — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

Today, Marta Estellés and Andrew Doyle share ideas and approaches to collective resistance:

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When Education Serves the Machine: The Technocapitalist Capture of Universities — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

Today, Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld examines recent "partnerships" between universities and big tech. Who do such deals serve?

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Join Us for Data Privacy Week — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Curriculum Crowdsourcing : One of the most popular activities in our Curriculum is our Critical Tech Quote Activity because the lessons offers a quick way to int...

Put this on your calendar for January!

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Data is Power: Teaching Critical AI Literacy in K-12 — Civics of Technology Data is Power is seeking applications from schools, districts, and classrooms for the 2025-26 school year. Learn more and apply by December 8th, 2025 (it’s a short application). Read more a...

Today, Evan Shieh shares the work of the Young Data Scientists League. Data is power!

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Resisting AI Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuri...

Book Club Day! 10:30 AM Eastern Time

Join us to talk about Dan McQuillan's Resisting AI

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

This month's Tech Talk is on Tuesday, December 2 at 8:00 Eastern Time. Hope to see you there!

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Welcome to the Irish Learning Technology Association Conference 2026 — Civics of Technology President of the ILTA, Eamon Costello, welcomes you to the Irish Learning Technology Association Conference!

From @eam0.bsky.social :

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Reflecting on Daycare (Ed)Tech and Being a New “Civics of Tech Parent” — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Curriculum Crowdsourcing : One of the most popular activities in our Curriculum is our Critical Tech Quote Activity because the lessons offers a quick way to int...

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.

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Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking our Digital Futures We are fast approaching the point of “peak digital”, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecol...

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!

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“Meet alt+Sam.” A GenAI Exercise in Civic Literacy — Civics of Technology Cross post of a social studies lesson on digital ethics featuring an uncanny valley guest speaker, creepy chat bot alt+Sam (yeah, you know who we mean).

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:

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Tech Talk today! At 12:00 PM ET

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In EdTech's Hero's Journey, Is the Teacher the Villain? — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk (NOTE THE NEW TIME): We will now be alternating our meeting time for our Tech Talks so that we can connect with different people in our community. ...

Today for the blog: If EdTech is the hero, is the teacher the villain?

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Where the Internet Goes When It’s Down — Civics of Technology Today, we have a midweek blog post from Trent Wintermeier on a timely event Trent Wintermeier is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. His r...

Special Friday blog post on a timely topic!

Trent Wintermeier writes about the recent AWS event and its implications for education

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Why Translation Matters: Transforming Power On! Into ¡Conectados! — Civics of Technology Jean Ryoo & Jane Margolis, authors of ¡Conectados! discuss the power of translation, technology, and standing together in dignity, safety, and belonging for all.

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.

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Maybe of interest to the @civicsoftech.bsky.social and #literacies communities and others concerned about the growing influence of private tech in public schools.

Learning and Laughter on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: The next Tech Talk will be held on October 7 at 8:00 Eastern Time. Register here or on our events page. Come join our community in an info...

I 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.

Morgan’s 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 🎞️

Next 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!

@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!

Seems 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