Dr. Zach Lloyd

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More information tomorrow about the No ICE in California Itch Charity Bundle. But for now, here is the game jam. All games on itch are welcome, please spread the word.

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LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
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Trump is attacking every source of university income (research grant cancellations, a proposed endowment tax, cutting Pell Grant eligibility and in the 'big beautiful bill' changing the student loan program). It's a declaration of fiscal war on universities with students as collateral damage.

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

"if we grade everything and then we average it all, then you focus on the grade not the learning."
@lyonsletters

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#studentengagement #EduSky

Again, Brecht's line resonates: Be careful walking through Germany, with the truth under your coat.

Reminder: jury nullification won't be in your jury instructions and is not something you're allowed to talk about in court. If you bring up jury nullification during jury selection, you WILL be thrown off the jury.

Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

The smartest people I know are all skeptical of A.I.

My punk friends see it as a tool of oppression.

My art friends see it as a creative cancer.

And then there’s LinkedIn.

This is something I’m having to teach myself after grad school. Now that I’m reading more for fun, I don’t HAVE to finished everything I pick up! It’s so freeing even if it still feels like I’ll get in trouble at times 😂

“I want us to do better. I want to feel like we are responsible for each other's transformation. Not the transformation from vibrant flawed humans to bits of ash, but rather the transformation from broken people and communities to whole ones.”

“I want us to do better. I want to feel like we are responsible for each other's transformation. Not the transformation from vibrant flawed humans to bits of ash, but rather the transformation from broken people and communities to whole ones.” adrienne maree brown

Performing AI literacy Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash A new international test of young people’s “AI literacy” has been announced by the OECD. Providing a global measurement of the competencies to engage with AI, the t…

The OECD has announced an international "AI literacy" assessment that could set the standard for how we think about students' engagement with AI. In this post I speculate a little about the effects of the OECD quantifying "AI literacy-as-numbers" codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/p...

Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers | Cult of Pedagogy These nine strategies make it quick, fun, and easy to build retrieval practice into any lesson.

How do we build more #retrievalpractice into our lessons? On the podcast, Dr. Pooja Agarwal (@retrievelearn.bsky.social), Dr. Janell Blunt, and Dr. Michelle Rivers share nine simple, easy, fun retrieval strategies that can be added to any lesson. www.cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-in...

*Macarena must also be out of sync with the royalty-free background music is playing

It is eerily quiet and empty on campus today, on a week where it should be busting at the seams. I spent my lunch sitting by the Westcott fountain and it was heartbreaking to see it completely empty, a marked difference from the long lines of graduates lining up to take their iconic photos. 💔 #FSU

ChatGPT action dolls: What are the concerns? As online users create Barbie-like dolls of themselves, experts urge caution over AI's energy and data use.

It's all fun and games until …

"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."

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"What is actually being changed by this thing?... What new challenges might these changes introduce? And for whom? Would addressing those challenges exacerbate, or distract us from addressing,... challenges related to quality, equitable education?" @philnichols.bsky.social on "innovation" in school

Let’s Talk About Building the Innovation School — Civics of Technology An interview with Phil Nichols about Building the Innovation School

"Deep down, my hope is that this book makes it easier for education, as a field, not to get swept up in whatever the latest innovation-of-the-day is (eg MOOCs, makerspaces, the metaverse, generative AI) and, instead, to respond with questions: ... www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/buildin...

"When Google or OpenAI pushes out products or services to schools, we have no obligation to use these innovations.... Educators should feel empowered to make decisions that are driven by the values embedded in ... public education, not the growth projections of edtech futures markets." 👏👏

"Ethnic cleansing through deportation" really does capture the intent behind what's happening.

PowerPoint title slide, “AI and Pedagogy - Open Discussion” with facilitator’s information.

It was nice to facilitate a discussion on the intersections of pedagogy and AI at the South Central Society for Music Theory conference today! It was a great to chat about ethical and environmental concerns and we considered possible opportunities or challenges ai presents to our classrooms!

PowerPoint title slide, “AI and Pedagogy - Open Discussion” with facilitator’s information.

It was nice to facilitate a discussion on the intersections of pedagogy and AI at the South Central Society for Music Theory conference today! It was a great to chat about ethical and environmental concerns and we considered possible opportunities or challenges ai presents to our classrooms!

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

I've been listening to Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori's 2019 opera, Blue, this morning as I've been doing work. It never fails to make me a blubbering mess in Act 2, especially Scene 3. What a powerful piece of art.

He is also actively dismantling the United States. So what’re you going to do about, cause you’ve not done shit yet? Shall we mail you a backbone? I can overnight it at no extra cost. Maybe then you’d be able to do your damn job.

We don't have evidence to support students using generative AI. If anything it's the opposite. And that's before we talk about its amplification of racism and misogyny, environmental degradation, theft, and worker exploitation. #EduSky

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There is something nefarious about how hard and fast people are pushing AI in education.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it doesn’t bode well when corporations, not student need, set the pace with which we adopt new technologies.

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