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FLO Workshop: Threading Equity Through Educational Materials (2025-10-09) Event Description Creating and selecting educational resources that centre equity requires intention and planning. Without this foresight, there is a risk of perpetuating biases and harm in both ...

Join me for this upcoming workshop on October 9, where we work together to develop an equity framework for educational materials bccampus.ca/event/flo-wo...

Can I tell you about a little project that took six years from proposal stage to release?

Community of Praxis is a fully peer-reviewed scholarly podcast about teaching and learning. It’s also (I think) fun, accessible, and a little bit radical in its focus on care.

It’s out today!

I like paying taxes. Genuinely. Not grudgingly. I can’t pave a road, I can’t build and staff a hospital. $200 in my pocket won’t pay for my kid’s daycare but if we all pool our money it might. I really wish someone on the left would be brave enough to be like, “Taxes are good, actually.”

Debunked: No, New Study Does Not Show Transgender Surgeries Double Depression The study, which has been paraded around right-wing media sources, does not evaluate the impact of surgery on transgender depression rates.

1. The far right is falsely spreading that a new study shows that surgery "doubles depression" for transgender people.

This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery.

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Lets dig in.

No. We're focusing on LinkedIn at the moment and taking time to decide if and where we want to start any new accounts

YouTube video by Virginia Clinton-Lisell Updating a free, open textbook with college students

Here is how I collaborate with my college students on updating an openly-licensed textbook so they can have a quality resource for free #oer #openeducation Updating a free, open textbook with college students
youtube.com/shorts/awOaM...

Maybe it's time to share our cheapest recipes?

I'm sure you've all got some good ones.

Fascism is rising out of the corpse of liberal democracy If the world's richest man does a fascist salute in a forest, does it make a sound?

Here's my latest -- Not only are we grossely underprepared to fight fascism, it's already here and it's driving the markets wild.

Mark All as Read Folks wrung their hands a lot this year about reading. "No one buys books," Elle Griffin argued this spring, although apparently Bible sales are surging, as – according to The Washington Times at leas...

I wrote about how AI undermines reading, particularly reading books — about summarization and “optimization culture.” And, for paid subscribers, I have a list of recommended books from those I read this year 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/mark-all-as-...

there was a good study out of germany that seemed to show that increasing national immigration generated backlash... but *local* immigration levels drove increasing acceptance of immigrants

the people who are most bothered by immigrants are least affected

Alberta Premier Smith willing to use the notwithstanding clause on trans health bill EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says using the notwithstanding clause to shield her government's transgender health restrictions is on the table as a "last resort."

Alberta just admitted that it's willing to bypass 🇨🇦 constitutional protections re: the right "to life, liberty and security of the person" and "not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment" in order to uphold a GAC ban.

This is bad.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

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👇👇👇Why I was reluctant to join another Jack Dorsey joint as pointed out by people's comment in my pinned post.

What are we doing differently here? What are we going to be doing proactively?

One long day filled with horrendous news for trans people later, one thing is apparent:

Transphobes don’t want to “protect vulnerable youth”.

They want to eliminate trans people altogether.

Genocide has always been the end goal. Except, it hasn’t been acceptable to admit that till very recently.

A 50's style woman holding a smart phone with a speech bubble that reads in all-caps, Stop Surveilling Your Kids, and underneath it reads, A Privacy Manifesto.

OK, here it is! My zine, Stop Surveilling Your Kids: A Privacy Manifesto is done and scanned and ready to share! drive.google.com/file/d/1sEJV...

Canadian Media Companies Target OpenAI in Copyright Lawsuit But Weak Claims Suggest Settlement the Real Goal - Michael Geist Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the o...

The first Canadian copyright lawsuit against OpenAI has been filed. This is the second lawsuit against an AI company, following CanLII vs. Caseway AI filed last month. Michael Geist's coverage is essential: www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/12/cana...

BC post-secondary folks! BCcampus has two scholarships available for the Creative Commons certificate courses starting in January. Applications are due December 6:

New #OpenTextbook alert: an intro #psychology open textbook through the lenses of diversity, equity, and inclusion! I am thrilled to share it with the world and so grateful for the team who did this work - they put so much time and energy into this book. #OpenEducation

For Black Folks, Digital Migration Is Nothing New Two Black academics discuss the rationale behind leaving Twitter or going down with the ship.

Kishonna did a re-up of this on Twitter, so I’ll do the same here.

Episode 300 - Towards Bluer Skies | Sandy & Nora Talk Politics In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a break from the stuff that matters to talk about the current migration from Twitter towards Bluesky and what it all means (and doesn’t mean).

New episode of Sandy and Nora is out. This week, we talk about this place. As people flock to Bluesky to be on a social plaform that finally allows us to interact with other humans again, we have to remember: for-profit tech will not save us.

sandyandnora.com/episode-300-...

The Beaverton salutes The Onion for buying InfoWars.
And we're pleased to announce that if enough of you join our Patreon, we'll buy Postmedia.

Better Images of AI We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...

What a relief to find this repository of decent images of AI

betterimagesofai.org

"Collaboration or competition? The value of sector-wide collaboration in educational technology research". A compelling case for the value of collaborative #edtech research by colleagues from across the world- ajet.org.au/index.php/AJ...

I have started to compile a starter pack of open educators. Please feel free to recommend and self-nominate as I update this periodically.

#OER #OEP #OpenPedagogy #OpenEducation

go.bsky.app/TZKppcn

Register to participate in my online, 1.5 hour introduction to the ins and outs of #OpenPedagogy, April 10 from 2-3:30pm CT! This crash course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of open pedagogy, and includes recommended readings for further exploration.
iastate.libcal.com/event/11868415

Watch Rajiv Jhangiani's excellent keynote at #OER24 here - Open education is not a fairy tale! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5O...

Rajiv speaking at a lectern. Behind him is a slide showing a small bandaid placed between a large crack in pavement.

@jhangiani.bsky.social exploring the many ways OER is often acting as a small bandaid on a defunded, unjust education system. #OER24

A mural on the side of a building showing a person in a blue and white striped shirt and wearing a box shaped like a house on their head. The box has eye holes and a sad mouth drawn on. The person has their head leaning down into their hand.

A stone bridge over a canal.

Graffiti on a rock wall.

Made it to Cork, Ireland for #OER24! Greatful to be here, and looking forward to the next two days!

Thanks @kylemackie.bsky.social for aa great session on accessibility statements! Check out his resource: ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/accessibilit...