Terry Greene HE/HIM

@greeneterry.bsky.social

It was a delight to spend part of my morning with the good folks at Trent University, as the inaugural speaker in their Beyond the Page conversation series. People asked such great questions, and I appreciated every one of them!

A flyer for Beyond the Page, a conversation series at Trent University in Canada. The flyer shows a photo of me smiling, and the cover of my book, A Pedagogy of Kindness

It's time for Gettin' Air - The Open Pedagogy Podcast with Apurva Ashok, Executive Director of the The Rebus Foundation! We chat about Rebus' journey from open education technology to a deeply human, values-driven approach to education. www.spreaker.com/episode/apur...

Apurva Ashok and The Rebus Foundation

Gettin' Air with Apurva Ashok, Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation. We chat about the organization’s journey from open education technology to a deeply

spreaker.com

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses. You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.gov · last yr.

Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can. But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

Google recently updated Chrome to detect when you are taking an LMS quiz and offer "Homework Help" in the address bar. Students are encouraged to upload screenshots of their quiz to Google Lens to get answers. Panic is spreading. Increased surveillance is coming. We can stop it. Watch me. Join me.

Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.

Multicolored silhouettes of people facing each other with speech bubbles above their heads. The text reads New Podcast! Community of Praxis with Brenna Clarke Gray. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.