My monthly round up blog.edtechie.net/books/july-2...

New book cover reveal! blog.edtechie.net/books/new-bo...

My monthly round up blog.edtechie.net/books/monthl...

Some thoughts arising from #OER26 and the future of Open Ed blog.edtechie.net/conference/o...

Back at the OU for #oer26 - Milton Keynes wasn’t this sunny when I worked here

"Now that there's no room in an Einstein world for simple cause and effect." - Dublin

"The Indian government is now planning to transform the Shompen’s small island into the ‘Hong Kong of India', which will totally change their lives forever." - protect the right of people to remain uncontacted. survivalinternational.org/peoples/shom...

Shompen

The Shompen are a largely uncontacted tribe on Great Nicobar Island in India. They now face genocide through a "mega-development" project to transform their small island into the "Hong Kong of India".

survivalinternational.org

I created my first bot! You didn't know you needed it in your life, but it posts a daily Prefab Sprout lyric blog.edtechie.net/music/the-da...

Reposting my Slanty ed tech post as a paragraph seemed to be deleted. It was a good one too, a rant about efficiency. blog.edtechie.net/edtech/slant...

Some recent developments that suggest the authors of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" may well be right blog.edtechie.net/books/its-la...

What does ed tech and slanty loo seats have in common? More than you might think (or want to know) blog.edtechie.net/edtech/slant...

I really can't tell if this is parody... A platform that allows AI agents to hire humans to perform embodied tasks on their behalf. 😭 I mean, this is just human to AI to human, in one sense. But it has that Total Dystopia vibe about it. rentahuman.ai

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks

The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

rentahuman.ai

Remember professional ethics, lessons for HE, via a niche ice hockey example - blog.edtechie.net/higher-ed/re...

“Time and again, we see what happens when devices go to market without proper consideration of how they might be used to harm women and girls.”

Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns

Exclusive: Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised, says Refuge

theguardian.com

My round-up for the year that was January blog.edtechie.net/books/jan-26...

Want to feel unwell? Read some Broetry blog.edtechie.net/ai/death-by-...

Happy Birthday Wikipedia - I've always been a fan! Knowledge curated by humans. #wikimedia25 Image CC-BY-ND Visual Thinkery - buff.ly/uAG9qJW

Today in annoying tech bros and libertarians - what would AI regulation look like? blog.edtechie.net/ai/what-woul...

French toast in a riot - my personal review of 2025 blog.edtechie.net/books/french...

My vinyl of the year roundup, if you're interested in that sort of thing blog.edtechie.net/music/vinyl-...

I wasn't going to do a 30+ Years of Ed Tech post this year, because it's still all AI blah blah. But that is exactly the theme - AI ennui blog.edtechie.net/25yearsou/30...

On the current sense of overwhelm: blog.edtechie.net/asides/welco...

my monthly round blog.edtechie.net/books/nov-25...

WHAT IN THE WHAT IS THIS?

Matt Thrower@mattthr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

On the excellent work of @survivalinternational.org and what that teaches us about resisting the inevitability narrative blog.edtechie.net/politics/to-...

Some of the similarities between the AI pitch and the populist politics rhetoric blog.edtechie.net/politics/ai-...

Publication day! blog.edtechie.net/fiction-writ...

AI is pretty optional for many of us, and that's a problem for the big investors blog.edtechie.net/ai/the-ai-op... #AI

I'm down with the kids, I've got an MP3 player blog.edtechie.net/asides/mp-fr...

Some thoughts on the Arthur Evans approach to archeology and how this relates to information sites blog.edtechie.net/history/the-...