Nice overview of our open-access book, Auditing AI in @the-renovator.bsky.social www.democracyrenovator.com/p/july-13-te... mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin.bsky.social
open & higher education | social justice | co-editor, Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures #HE4Good | Bronxite who now calls Ireland home | she/her | http://catherinecronin.net/
Yes. Listen to @merbroussard.bsky.social (Link in thread.)
La Fronde@lafronde.bsky.social · 2mo agoNYU professor and data journalist @merbroussard.bsky.social saw what was coming with AI before the rest of us did. And despite the wave of media layoffs, she has something reassuring to say to journalists worried about being replaced.
An invitation to conversation: to design differently, deploy differently and refashion our relationships to edtech from @discoursology.bsky.social acknowledging fragility and strengthening our human bonds at #edtech26.
Registration is now open for #MYFest26! A global, virtual 3-month journey for lifelong learners exploring community, wellbeing, imagination, care, & critical AI literacies. Registration and website: myfest.equityunbound.org 💖Free registration: email unboundeq@gmail.com #OpenEducation #EquityUnbound
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Welcome to #MYFest25! This is Equity Unbound’s fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners ever...
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“Education is for the student to come to feel like the master of her own thinking” Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire, 1978 A timely reminder from @abeba.blacksky.app at #edtech26
so sorry to be missing #EdTech26 (hello to all!) but grateful to @iltasky.bsky.social for livestreaming keynotes ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ this morning's keynote on AI & Education by @abeba.blacksky.app (@aial.ie) was outstanding: core values of education (love, trust, empathy, care) cannot be datafied
While I agree with this post, I had flashbacks reading it. Haven't we been saying this for well over a decade? Possibly two. Perhaps we just need to keep saying it. #oer #repositories Why Can’t OER Just Be All in One Place? medium.com/creative-com...
Why Can’t OER Just Be All in One Place?
By James Thibeault — CC BY 4.0
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The paintings of Mitjili Napurrula, Indigenous Australian artist from the Northern Territories #WomensArt
“Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly $4T is fated to command our public schools, or to grant fellowships to the leaders of those schools, or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them.” ⬇️
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
like the global geo-political climate, public discourse around AI is fast deteriorating and I feel it everyday 1/
Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...
“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”
From Chile to the Philippines, meet the people pushing back on AI
Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs.
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Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work
Nancy Fraser | After Habermas
Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...
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"From Tressie McMillan Cottom to Bernardine Evaristo, these Black women writers are shaping literature today—along with the Black-owned bookstores carrying their work." Yesssss
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’m so grateful for this nod from Ebony. www.ebony.com/we-should-al...
The episode also had me thinking of this article by @eam0.bsky.social and Stephen Gow on Authoritarian EdTech and how it "revolves around the oppressive foreclosure of choice, consent, debate and deliberation".
Authoritarian EdTech - Eamon Costello, Stephen Gow, 2025
Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...
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thanks for sharing, Charles. the podcast also reminded me of @audreywatters.bsky.social post from *nine* years ago: Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump hackeducation.com/2017/02/02/e... prescient as always: "We must rebuild institutions that value humans’ minds and lives and integrity and safety."
Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump
This talk was delivered at the University of Richmond. The full slide deck can be found here.
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Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnother great episode of Education Technology Society, this one featuring Morgan Anderson in conversation w/ @neilselwyn.bsky.social. Now is a good time for educators to work w/ students to consider how the push to embed GenAI technologies in schools is entangled w/ the spread of authoritarianism.
“As tech bros shake hands on billion-pound deals and race to stake their claim on the future of AI, it is women and marginalised genders who are left to absorb the real-world fallout.”
“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”
As smart devices multiply, so do fears over digital surveillance
We are living in a time of extreme self surveillance. We carry with us devices that capture our every location, info about our health, and data about our private lives. This information can be saved, ...
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ON COURAGE is the story of how they became dissidents and how we can too. We wrote this for communities to take action – and hope you’ll read it with your friends, coworkers, book club, anyone who’s witnessed the assaults on democracy and asked: what can we do? There is so much we can do together.
On Courage
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported collection of stories about how anyone can...
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Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.
If you weren't around at the time and never heard what Jackson's oratory was like, this is what it was like. If you heard it before, you know you want to hear it again.
Shannan Clark@shannanclark.bsky.social · 6mo agoRocks just laying around...
NEW: The story of America’s largest national strike for 100 years. Here are the biggest protests from Jan 30, 2026. And national news still did their best to ignore the scale of what happened yesterday. Soundtrack courtesy of The Boss 💪
"the economic system, including companies, financial institutions & other economic actors, does not exist for its own sake... [it] exists to ensure that all people can live a good & meaningful life, in a just society & within the ecological limits of the planet" thank you @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
Ingrid Robeyns@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere's my piece on the silence of our Elite gathering in Davos on what kind of economic system we need: www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
Good morning! Get your day started on the good foot with the one and only genius James Brown.
Lerele@lelele55.bsky.social · 10mo agoJames Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine). Roma 1971 Parte 2 Bobby Byrd: MC. Bootsy Collins: Bajo. Fred Wesley: trombón. Darryl Jamison y Chicken Gunnells: trompetas. St. Clair Pinckney saxofón. Catfish Collins y Cheese Martin: guitarras. Jabo Starks y Don Juan Tiger Martin: baterías.
Sharing a letter published in yesterday's @irishtimes.com, written by my amazing daughter Sarah Cronin Rodger, in support of a housing movement in Ireland.
So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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beautiful by Rebecca Solnit: “The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate & exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships… a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole” thinking of Frances Bell & #FemEdTechQuilt
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8mo agoAn essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.