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Late-stage capitalism?

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

i read that stupid blog about the left "missing out" on AI and got big mad aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"

and i was like.
oh!

RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE

Some cities are ditching license plate readers over immigration surveillance concerns Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents can access local data are driving these debates.

Another example of why I hate so much the folks who tell us this stuff is inevitable.

It doesn’t have to be this way!

Often when communities see the stakes, they reject ubiquitous surveillance.

I can't even. This is some ableist bullshit, but even if it wasn't, it's still surveillance bullshit that reinforces that one's worth is only measured in terms of productivity. Where is my Pope of Nope...Here he is.

OMG REALLY? NO ONE TOLD ME! </sarcasm>

It’s like it’s 2010 and another platform, but Tyra this documentary is doing you no favors.

Ed-tech is surveillance tech. cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app

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I have been pleasantly surprised to hear people openly talking about the end of institutional life as we know it (it’s been over. We’ve been living and working in zombie institutions for three decades now) and instead of collapsing at the thought they’re like okay let’s rebuild but better. More.

Yes, one episode, on Disney+ now. Sabrina Carpenter is the guest. It's wonderful. Hopefully enough people watch/stream it and we get a full season!

(As always, there are ways around the paywall, just hit me up with the ask)

Book Review: An Educator's Guide to ADHD by Karen Costa Click on the article title to read more.

Last but not least (I hope!), I review @karencosta.bsky.social new book, An Educator's Guide to ADHD. TL; DR - BUY THIS BOOK. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Alleviating Multilingual Learners' Writing Anxiety through the Creative Nonfiction Literacy Narrative and AI Use Click on the article title to read more.

I love a good literacy narrative, but Tomas Maldonado pushes to think even further about how we teach and use this popular genre especially for multilingual learners onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thriving through Boundaries: The Guidance on Maintaining Effective Learning Environments (GMELE) framework Click on the article title to read more.

Ish is FRAUGHT right now to say the least. Kate Law and Christina Nava explore how The Guidance on Maintaining Effective Learning Environments (GMELE) framework can help. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Integrating Design Sprints into Advanced Design Thinking Education Click on the article title to read more.

Design thinking is an important skill that, well, AI can't really do, so let's think about how we help students develop these skills, by Farzana Sedillo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

University Students as Authors: Creating Children's Books to Demonstrate Content Knowledge and Understanding Click on the article title to read more.

This one is near and dear to me: having your students create children's books to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding, by Heidi Sackreiter onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Power of Pronouns Click on the article title to read more.

Amanda Mack re-emphasizes the importance of using our students proper pronouns onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

From Recycled Exams to Authentic Assessment: The Transformative Push of AI in Higher Education Click on the article title to read more.

We're all concerned about AI and assessment, so Ruth Benander and Megan Wuebker share what worked for them in their teaching onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sweeping the Dust Off of the Syllabus with Broadly Inclusive Teaching Strategies Click on the article title to read more.

Is your syllabus inclusive? Rachel Yoho give some advice on making sure you are starting off from a place of inclusivity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Welcome, Y'all! Click on the article title to read more.

I get to welcome @clarissasorensenunruh.com as our new regular contributor! She introduces herself in her first column. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The National Teaching & Learning Forum: Vol 35, No 2 Click on the title to browse this issue

The Feb issue of The National Teaching and Learning Forum is out! Another overflowing issue of wise and wonderful teaching advice!

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Gave a talk for Kumaraguru College in Tamil Nadu this morning on what the postcolonial literary tradition of writing back can tell us about generative AI, and it prompted a GREAT conversation about AI literacy and potential areas for research. It was also, dare I say, actually fun to write?

The problem is, the hype of AI is always so clearly manufactured. It’s sold as essential but mysteriously so — rarely is it portrayed as making life better; it’s sold as doing things WE want to keep doing. We want it to inventory our fridge and detect cancer, not make music and replace us at work.

Black Feminist Philosophy and the Politics of Refusal Abstract. This chapter discusses the meaning, possibility, and contributions of Black feminist philosophy. The chapter discusses a politics of refusal that

Anyway, I used “refusal” intentionally. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.

Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.

Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.

I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious.

We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.

I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.

Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.