Dustin Edwards
@dustinedwards.bsky.social
I study the unmet promises and lived harms of extractive technologies. https://dustinwedwards.com/
man, the ~teaching with AI~ posts that include GenAI images are so corny. what are we even doing
A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
shorter NCTE message: we want to get rid of all the infrastructure that costs money and carries any political risk, BUT we will take your membership money. For what? Isn't it exciting that we don't know?!!!
A Battle of Narratives: Community Resistance to the Material Costs of AI www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2026/07/29/c...
Community Resistance to the Material Costs of AI with Dr. Dustin Edwards
Dustin Edwards is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and the Director of the Writing Center at San Diego State University. His research examines the unmet promises and lived harms…
digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org
Feels like a good time to share my most recent (open access!) publication: “many [participants] see state DEI bans as a warning shot of sorts, a preface to the larger project of dismantling higher education.” publicationsncte.org/content/jour...
“While I Stay Mad, I Also Stay Ready”: Navigating DEI Bans in Writing Studies Classrooms | ncte.org
Welcome to the new NCTE Publications site, your gateway to NCTE journals, ebooks, and the Council Chronicle.
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Doing Great as the Summer Ends and the Profession Reels from a Fabricated Crisis* *listening to Carrie & Lowell on repeat
It does not feel coincidental that this is happening the same week as the Conference on College Composition and Communication (colloquially known as the C's or CCCC) is effectively being shuttered.
Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · last mo.It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Imagine the conversation we could have about this travesty if NCTE didn’t require Cs officers and executive committee members to sign confidentiality agreements. Folks should also ask NCTE about how and whether their lucrative grant/partnership with Google was part of what Cs “culture” threatened.
NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association
The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...
insidehighered.com
Writing to cancel my NCTE membership and demand a refund.
Hey @insidehighered.com @chronicle.com Want to report on how the professional organization for college writing (including the top required college course) was just dissolved by its parent org? ncte.org/press-update...
NCTE Update, Decision by NCTE Executive Committee
The following is a message from the NCTE Executive Committee.
ncte.org
The Cs was a place where precarious academic workers could dream of a better higher ed, as well as make it. Adjuncts and community college faculty were especially welcomed rather than just being stigmatized for where/how they taught. I loved hearing people’s 4Cs report backs!
College writing instruction is one of the places where academic labor exploitation is very high, and at the same time these same academic workers are at the front lines of the literacy crisis and are also the most committed to a truly inclusive university.
CORNY
National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · 4mo agoPRESS RELEASE: NCTE, with support from a national grant from Google.org, has published a working framework for ELA educators seeking to understand the appropriate role of AI in the discipline and help students think critically about AI. ELA educators can contribute feedback: https://bit.ly/4uOxpzD
This is because NCTE complied with fascists and has a partnership with Google, while CCCC continued to advocate for anti-racism and caution against AI. I just emailed customerservice@ncte.org to request a refund and you should, too. Absolutely devastating.
PlaySta-Sean 🎮@seemtoggle.bsky.social · last mo.
what a corny ass email, no doubt written by that person with the corny ass linkedin bio and then run through Grok for good measure
@ncte.org I’ll be calling first thing Monday morning to cancel my membership. I’ll spend the weekend encouraging all my CCCC colleagues to do the same.
Fuck @ncte.org . I'll never give you a dollar of my money
“The process of making this decision spanned several years” yeah they been wanting to get rid of us
the audacity for the NCTE EC to say they're excited about the future. i just --
idk man, but it sure looks like the encroachment of big tech on executive boards for professional orgs may be the death knell for my discipline
The CCCCs organization is the center of our discipline. Absolutely horrible decision by NCTE with no consideration or care for the community or anyone who has put their work into the organization, an org that is needed more than ever.
Donnie Johnson Sackey@donniejsackey.bsky.social · last mo.A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.
A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.
The Backup Plan, a new podcast series exploring the use of DNA to store data (instead of tape or hard drives etc).
shout out to the guy in the sauna next to me this morning who was quick applying to jobs on LinkedIn
I think (??) Tressie McMillan Cottom used the phrase "beneath analysis" for some of the bs happening right now in the AI space. And that's how I feel about data center discourse these days. It's cartoonishly evil and extractive -- and it's like what more can be said?