Tom Mullaney

I actually think some tech, if not cheap and dominant, and used thoughtfully could be a real help.

Imagine if kids had 14 inch screens on real computers, not 11 inch Chromebooks. Or iPad pros with Apple pencils.

From time to time, that could be fun and engaging.

That's not the current situation.

The only one benefitting from tech in schools is the AI industy. More tech means higher rates of anxiety & depression and less learning. Stop companies from sucking the life out of kids. Books, paper, pens, a board, a quiet airy classroom...these work and are much cheaper.

I can't believe the Yankees defeated the Red Sox in a postseason series.

Helps me deal with some 2004 trauma just a little bit.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union How Big Tech Uses YOUR Kids’ Classrooms To Sell THEIR Products

I just watched this video about #EdTech from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. As someone who has promoted technology in K12 classrooms for years, I have a lot to think about.

Teachers: Watch this! #EduSky

youtu.be/aByWLQ7h2n0?...

In other news, sky is blue, sea is wet, and anyone who has worked with machine learning has known this all along

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 170: Words matter. Words are the conduit for ideas. Words can affect the way your readers see the world; how they behave; how they relate to others. Every political movement, every religion, philosophy, war, began with ideas, translated into words. Use them wisely.

I often see "I'm a newly minted Gemini Certified Educator" on social media.

Please think long and hard about what you attach your name to. #EduSky

but let's focus on the *potential* benefits...

I just found out my school district blocks Twitch 😥 At least I can download it for the weekend when I get home Friday. Looking forward to it l.

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 fans! We're moving our livestream to Friday. In the meantime, @emilymbender.bsky.social and I are soooo close to a major download milestone! Share and subscribe to the pod and your AI skeptical friends.

www.buzzsprout.com/2126417

N.L.'s 10-year education action plan cites sources that don't exist | CBC News A major report on modernizing the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador is peppered with fake sources some educators say were likely fabricated by generative artificial intelligence.

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Renault: Oh, thank you very much.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response,” said Sawyer. “But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.”

I saw someone share that they are a Gemini-certified educator on social media yesterday. What are we doing here? What happened to solidarity? #EduSky #EdTech #genAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

I have heard people promoting #genAI in P-12 education say that it generates "human-like output with little to no human input."

It does not. It needs many exploited humans to function. Acknowledge them. #EduSky

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hey, @civicsoftech.bsky.social, this is a great example of what P-12 schools and teachers are facing.

A subject line from my Gmail inbox: Schools doing this make yours look outdated.

In my email from an #AIinEducation proponent this morning. Usually, the fear-based appeals are subtle. He just went for it today. #EduSky

"Visual by David Szauder; Generated using A.I"

I am not reading this.

Thank you, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, for posting this to your LinkedIn where I stumbled on it.

Friends Don't Let Friends Prompt By Emily Alex and I were at WorldCon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) last week, talking about The AI Con with people whose livelihood...

I love this bold piece by @emilymbender.bsky.social. What you say and create is so much better than a mean-generating algorithm. #EduSky

"Every act of refusal is especially powerful and meaningful now, and we would do well to avail ourselves of that power as we can."

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Something I didn't get to say yesterday:

We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Creating permission structures for AI refusal is an urgent, collective need, especially as its use becomes increasingly mandated by leaders + districts who staked economic, social + political capital on AI "working."

@neatoday.bsky.social
@aft.org

No one taught me more about the myth of American independence than my high school students, who saw with clear eyes the conformity of most of the adults in their towns. This, despite years of reading literature and history that fostered that myth, a myth I held onto far too long.

Thank you, @tljamesa.com, for sharing that with me.

A Student’s Right to Refuse Generative AI Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…

School districts need to create policies protecting students and teachers who refuse to use generative AI. Teachers unions need to lead the charge. #EduSky

refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Some of my favorite YouTube channels for Social Studies teachers: #EduSky #SocialStudies

PBS Origins
PBS American Experience
Crash Course Native American History
Crash Course Black American History
Jim Crow Museum
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment
TedEd
ARTSQ
The Great War

Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.

enshitification has come for Imgur and its users aren't having it.

“A hallmark of being a Black child in advanced literature classes is the ability to separate the art from the artist, even before you know you’re doing it.”

Check out their Black American history and Native American history series. Very useful.