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Maha Bali, PhD

@mahabali.bsky.social

Equity/care. Open connected educator. @bali_maha ๐Ÿฆ. Mahabali@mastodon.social Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ #EduSky #highered Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo

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For the life of them, students (mine anyway) cannot manage their time. I give them 3 weeks to do an assignment, coz u know, it can take that long, and they all get started on it 2 days before the deadline. Will break it up into 3 submissions next time!!!

03.12.2025 23:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
EP 37 - Agentic AI is here. What does it mean for Online Education? A conversation with Anna Mills. | Online Learning in the Second Half In EP 37, John and Jason talk to Anna Mills about Agentic AI and See complete notes and transcripts atย www.onlinelearningpodcast.com Join Our LinkedIn Group -ย *Online Learning Podcast (Also feel free ...

Agentic AI is here: What does it mean for online education?
This was a stimulating conversation with John Nash and Jason Johnston of the Online Learning Podcast.

Note: agentic AI browsers do way more than the custom chatbots sometimes called agents.
www.onlinelearningpodcast.com/e/ep-37-agen...

01.12.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Uses and Abuses of AI Agents in Educationย  โ€“ OneHE

I'm not recommending agentic AI browsers, but I think educators need to understand what they are and how they can affect learning in digital spaces.

In this free webinar for OneHE, I'll explore possible student and teacher uses and abuses of these systems. onehe.org/event/uses-a... #EduSky

03.12.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know where you are coming from. I don't know why people like to ask for the binaries and to bring about debate rather than more nuanced understanding

03.12.2025 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Debate: Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it? - Generative Revolution Insights

Join the #generativerevolution

Should schools use AI or forbid it?
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...

30.11.2025 11:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Seven Myths about AI and Productivity: What the Evidence Really Says Meta-analytic evidence finds no robust relationship between AI adoption and aggregate productivity gain.

"when decision-support systems are highly but not perfectly reliable, users become over-trusting, leading to a 12 percent increase in commission errors (e.g., accepting incorrect AI suggestions) and slower detection of rare anomalies." cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/10/seve...

28.11.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Episode 38: Maha Bali & Hoda Mostafa "The issue I have is honestly that AI itself is a thief of ideas and doesn't really attribute where it got it from." "When you disclose, you're unpacking your thinking and you're making your thinking ...

Recently, the wonderful @tbertramgallant.bsky.social recorded a podcast interview with Hoda Mostafa & myself. Tricia's podcast is named after her book, "The Opposite of Cheating" and we focused on our perspective from Egypt #AIinEducation

www.theoppositeofcheating.com/post/episode...

27.11.2025 07:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I always feel lucky when I get to share space with @mahabali.bsky.social, who has taught me so much over the years about making open education and our classrooms more hospitable to more learners. This episode is a joy and I hope youโ€™ll enjoy listening as much as I did recording it.

13.11.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!

I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorioโ€™s lawsuit against me is forever over. Iโ€™ve won my life back!

linkletter.org/update-33-th...

13.11.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 288    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Wow wow, so so so happy for you and relieved. I am so sorry this ever happened at all... and only grateful for the example you set for all of us. I wish you hadn't had to suffer so much for all of us... ๐Ÿ’•

14.11.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2025 Open Practices Awards Open Practices are collective behaviors and techniques that open up access to educational opportunities. These practices promote and support the use of open educational resources, technologies, and so...

๐ŸŽ‰ Weโ€™re thrilled to share some amazing news with youโ€ฆ MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! ๐ŸŽ‰
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social

19.10.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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2025 Shortlist of Finalists The annual Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary Individuals, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and inn...

Honored for @equityunbound.bsky.social to be among the shortlisted nominees for the OE Global Awards on "How We Share" alongside the work of Mays Imad

awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...

10.10.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I find it interesting (but not frustrating or upsetting) that my non-peer-reviewed writing (on blogs or similar) get cited more often than my peer-reviewed articles. The issue is of course that academia counts/rewards the citations of the peer-reviewed ones only. Not the usefuleness of all of it.

09.10.2025 10:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To be honest, I only made it through about a paragraph or so of Paul LeBlanc before I skipped ahead to @mahabali.bsky.socialโ€˜s insightful critique. We are supposed to see the launch of their LE-1 this month, so I guess we will see what they are overhyping right nowโ€ฆ

03.09.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2/2 it's also like... analogous to training the AI in your voice and video and worrying about what it might do with it and distort it into something else given all it's been trained on before? I have some thought experiments on this!

09.09.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes... and also, there is a risk people on the margins have of whether training larger models on their data risks them losing rhetorical and data sovereignty (particularly important for Indigenous groups, but also, e.g., for me, sacred holy texts?). 1/2

09.09.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

09.09.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 878    ๐Ÿ” 275    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Not to constantly refer to one of my own translations, but Saitล's use of Andrรฉ Gorz's distinction between open and locking technologies is very pertinent here -- generative AI is locking tech masquerading as open tech

09.09.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brood Parasites Humans have always invested great meaning in birds. No surprise, what with the feathers, the flight. Each week, when I look at all the stories that've been told about education and technology and try ...

Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...

05.09.2025 10:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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A Letter to Letters โ€” Grow Beyond Grades In this letter, Subhiksha Sreeram breaks up with grades, recalling how letters once ruled her worth and turned learning into a numbers game. She shares how chasing Aโ€™s left her anxious, perfectionisti...

โ€œWhy focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?โ€ ๐Ÿ“ซ

High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.

growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...

03.09.2025 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artistโ€™s sketch of what that could look like. ...

Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?

learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...

03.09.2025 03:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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#ICYMI, last week we spoke with @mahabali.bsky.social on #digitalliteracy and #AI in the classroom. Tune in at: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

26.08.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artistโ€™s sketch of what that could look like. ...

In this podcast episode, I respond to Matter & Space and critique their claims to transform edu with AI
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think

03.09.2025 03:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SLU Education Conference Day 1 Keynote: Dr. Maha Bali. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Keynote talk will start at 13:15 and will be streamed from Loftets hรถrsal i Ultuna.

I'm giving a keynote today on Cultivating socially just care in academia today via SLU, starting 1.15pm Sweden time, 11.15 GMT, 2.15pm Cairo, and way early ET 7.15am

Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

20.08.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AI in the Classroom: Power, Bias and Opportunity with Maha Bali Podcast Episode ยท Educating to Be Human Podcast ยท 08/19/2025 ยท 45m

๐ŸŽง New Episode: AI in the Classroom w/ @mahabali.bsky.social
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in todayโ€™s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech

19.08.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh I don't know what story I shared inspired this? Or I forgot? Tell me haha

18.08.2025 03:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Unexpected Reflections from the ABBA Museum Experience I love ABBA. My parents and uncle turned me into music of their generation when I was young, and I was hooked on them, the Beatles, Boney M, Beegees. My husband is similar, so our teen is also intoโ€ฆ

Unexpected Reflections from the ABBA Museum Experience.
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...

18.08.2025 03:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can a Flight Cancelation Be a Gift? I start this blogpost the morning after arriving here in Sweden where Iโ€™m expected to give a workshop and a keynote soon. The question โ€œhow is this a gift to me?โ€ came from the person who invโ€ฆ

Can a flight cancelation be a gift?
(This is me theorizing approaches to uncertainty and its intersection with privilege based on a recent experience)

blog.mahabali.me/parenting/ca...

18.08.2025 03:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox โ€” Civics of Technology The authors of this weekโ€™s blog intersect technoskepticism with disability studies to offer a series of questions that help in evaluating assistive tech.

Such a useful and important article when assessing tech for accessibility

Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox.

Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...

02.08.2025 05:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can't wait to chat with @hypervisible.bsky.social - join us! #MYFest25 - details below

27.07.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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