Equity Unbound

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...

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A Letter to Letters — 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 A’s left her anxious, perfectionisti...

“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫

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.

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Cultivating Learning Sanctuaries w/ Mays Imad: Explore neuroscience, theory & practices of trauma-informed teaching to build classrooms of resilience & care.
📅Aug28| 3–4:15pm GMT
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#LearningSanctuaries #TraumaInformedTeaching #HigherEd

The Dream That Creates With Me: Reclaiming Creativity & Imagination w/ Angela Gunder: Explore creative AI literacies through stories, reflection & a co-written manifesto.
📅Aug 18 | 3 PM GMT
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#AILiteracies #Imagination #Pedagogy

Knowledge Justice in Digital Spaces: Navigating Algorithmic Bias w/ @danid.bsky.social & Lea Sansom: Explore how bias shapes online voices & strategies for amplifying diversity.
📅Aug13| 3:30–5pm GMT
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#AlgorithmicBias #KnowledgeJustice

Poetic Practices for Living Creatively w/ @miazamoraphd.bsky.social & Kefah Ayesh: Explore mindfulness & practices that spark creativity, leading to shared open resources.
🗓Aug11| 4–5pm GMT
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#Mindfulness #Poetry #Creativity #MYFest25

The Stories We Teach By: Shifting the Pedagogy of the Distressed w/ Rebekah J. Bennetch: Reflect on pressures in higher ed & imagine teaching rooted in authenticity & care.
🗓Aug11| 3–4pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #Pedagogy #HigherEd #Academia

Learning From Students' Stories Using Narrative and Voice-Centred Approaches w/ Kathy Chandler: Explore what student stories reveal, conceal & ask of us as educators.
🗓Thu, Aug7 | 2–3pm GMT
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#NarrativeInquiry #StudentStories #Pedagogy

Body Mapping to Reflect on Wellbeing
Join Kathy Chandler for a quiet, creative session using body mapping to reflect on wellbeing in education.
🗓Wed, Aug 6 | 5–6pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #BodyMapping #Wellbeing #Education

How Teaching Philosophies Inform (and Explain?) AI Adoption
Join Maya Bialik & Peter Nilsson to explore how our philosophies shape AI adoption in education.
📅Wed, Aug 6 | 4–5pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #AIinEducation #Teaching #HigherEd

“Hospicing Modernity” book club w/ Theresa Destrebecq: Join a reflective book club session on harm, responsibility & transformation.
📅Wed, Aug 6 | 2–3:30pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #HospicingModernity #BookClub

Educating & Empowering GenZ w/Laila ElSerty& Rania Jabr: What motivates Gen Z learners, and how should we teach them? Join this session on mindset, AI, integrity & passion in language learning.
📅Aug 5 | 1pm GMT
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#GenZ #LanguageLearning

“The Human Nature of Writing” w/ @miazamoraphd.bsky.social & Kefah Ayesh: what makes writing human? Join us for a poetry-based session on expression, connection & creative value.
📅Mon, Aug 4 | 4–5pm GMT
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#HumanWriting #PoetryAndAI

A Peak into Classrooms that Heal and Inspire w/ Oumaima Elghazali: Explore mental health strategies you can use in any classroom. Expect reflection, practice & care.
📅Aug4| 2–3pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #MentalHealth #Healing #HigherEd

With Uncertainty w/ @davecormier.bsky.social & @sokate.bsky.social : How do we work well in an uncertain world? Join this session on navigating uncertainty in teaching, care & collaboration.
📅Aug 4 | 12–1pm GMT
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#Uncertainty #pedagogy

Bridging Polarization: Join Katherine Yngve for Part II: share what worked, what didn’t & how we keep showing up across difference
📅Thu, Jul 31 | 3–4pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #BridgingPolarization #Dialogue #HigherEd

Rethinking DEI w/ Jamiella Brooks: What happens when the words we lean on (diversity, equity, inclusion) start to blur? Explore how to stay intentional in equity work.
📅Thu, Jul 31 | 1–2:15pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #DEI #Equity

Join Delphine Dall'Agata to reflect on slow learning, inclusion & intention in digital spaces. Explore metaphors & practices that center care & connection.
📅Wed, Jul30 | 2–3pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #SlowLearning #InclusiveDesign

Join Daniela Gachago & Shanali Govender to rethink learning design through radical flexibility & participatory parity.
📅 Today | 5–6pm GMT
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#PostGraduateEducation #SocialJustice #PostgradAccess

Preservation as resistance w/ @unabridgedopinions.com & Chris Millson: how power shapes what’s remembered & erased. Explore digital practices rooted in care& community.
📅Today| 2–3pm GMT
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#PreservationAsResistance #Education #HigherEd

@hypervisible.bsky.social we can't wait!!!! #MYFest25

Join Chris Gilliard to discuss themes from his upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Explore how AI-driven tech blurs lines between control & convenience.
📅Tue, July 29 | 🕔 5–6pm Cairo | 2–3pm GMT
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#Surveillance #AI #HigherEd

Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity
Vanessa & Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti explore meta-relationality, AI & world endings.
📅July 29 | 🕗 8–10pm Cairo | 5–7pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #AI #Relationality #HigherEd

AI Feedback in a Human-Centered Writing Process: The Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) Approach – @annamillsoer.bsky.social & Julie Gamberg
Explore free tools for blending AI and peer feedback.
📅July24
🕒3:00 PM GMT
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#AI #HigherEd

Let’s Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts
@annamillsoer.bsky.social facilitates a session on AI prompt design in education, featuring different prompting strategies.
📅Today, 🕒3PM GMT
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#HigherEd #AI

Joy in Comic Play: Commedia dell' netprov - MYFest25 Mon 21 Jul 2025 @ 15:00–17:00 - What can a zany, age-old, theater comedy tradition based on human nature teach us today? Come write, play, and laugh i as we make a humorous improvised script.

Come play and write with Rob Wittig and me in Commedia dell' Netprov, part of the 2025 MYFest. If you register, you'll have acess to the rest of the summer's sessions!

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Joy in Comic Play: Commedia dell' Netprov with @markcmarino.bsky.social & Rob Wittig. This session invites you to co-create comic scenes through farce & improvisation.
📅 Mon, July 21
🕒 3:00–5:00pm GMT
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#writing #Netprov #HigherEd

Join @miazamoraphd.bsky.social for “Linking Wellness and Justice”—an interactive space to explore care, healing, and resistance.
📅 Mon, July 21 | 2–3pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #Wellbeing #Justice #CriticalPedagogy

🛠️📖A Practical Guide to Accessibility & UDL with @danid.bsky.social & @yasser-tamer.bsky.social
Explore how learning can be designed for access from the start.
📅July 17 | 🕓 4–6pm GMT
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#HigherEd #UDL #accessibility

🤖🧠 The Battle for Alt: Bots vs Brains
Who writes better alt text—humans or AI?
Join Mark Marino & @yasser-tamer.bsky.social for a fun, thoughtful face-off.
📅 July 16 | 🕗 8pm Cairo | 5pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #AltText #accessibility #AIandAccess #HigherEd