🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.

Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...

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Yes it’s climate change, stop asking

Believe it we're actually living in a time when we have some of the best magazines & publications available: @wired.com, @propublica.org, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @readlux.bsky.social, @nplusonemag.com, @truthout.org, @hellgatenyc.com, @boltsmag.org, @inquest.bsky.social, @thecityreporter.nyc...

The Black Mirror Writers Room teaching exercise has some updates! More "Light Mirror" emphasis, additional options for scaffolding with some more explicit prompts (including for encouraging more grounding and solutions-oriented thinking) and (actual) Black Mirror examples. bit.ly/blackmirrorw...

The Black Mirror Writers' Room: A Speculative Ethics Teaching Exercise

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Ever seen a news story about AI and thought “this could be an episode of Black Mirror”? We're running a research study where we ask people to imagine generative AI futures and pitch their own science fiction story. More detail at the link and please share! www.internetruleslab.com/black-mirror...

Black Mirror Survey Study — Internet Rules Lab

We're recruiting for a survey where you pitch your own Black Mirror episode about the future of generative AI!

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How do we help K12 students push back on the idea that 'tech is inevitable'? I'm excited to share this new article "A Sociotechnical Vision for Ethical, Responsible, and Critical PK-12 Computing Education", recently published in ACM InRoads, that speaks to this question: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

A Sociotechnical Vision for Ethical, Responsible, and Critical PK-12 Computing Education | ACM Inroads

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First (beta) version of our AI Auditing for High School lessons: piloted in high school CS classrooms, with resources for more information. bit.ly/k12aiaudit-lessons #cseducation #aieducation Created with amazing CS teachers, Yasmin Kafai, Danae Metaxa, Daniel Noh, Luis Morales-Navarros

Part 0: Introduction to the Algorithm Auditing Lessons

Introduction to Algorithm Auditing: Lessons for High School Computer Science (beta version) Creators (listed in alphabetical order) Helen Butapetch, Deborah Fields, Sheri Hanna, John Landa, Luis Mora...

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Excited to share a new offering at #ISLS2026 (International Society of the Learning Sciences): Alt-Academia Career Workshop. If you're in the learning sciences and interested in careers outside the traditional tenure track, this workshop is for you! Apps due 11/15: 2026.isls.org/alt-academia...

Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵

There are four main arguments for AI in education: 1. Efficiency, saving teachers time 2. Equity, making education inclusive 3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning 4. It's inevitable Is it true? Nope. Micro 🧵

"The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of their values and politics" ... criticaledtech.com/2025/07/12/w...

We need to talk about AI in terms of values, not vibes

The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of thei…

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Big companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google pledged a few years ago to cut their emissions. But, as this chart from @bloomberg.com shows, the heavy pivot to artificial intelligence is pushing their emissions higher instead 🧪

Absolutely heartbreaking, and terrifying. If I’m reading this right, the program I received my PhD in—Learning and Development Sciences—is set to be eliminated. Along with literally hundreds (!) of others. This is arson on the part of fascists, plain and simple.

Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · last yr.

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last yr.

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

Kudos to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for some absolutely essential reporting from the frontline of AI’s enshittification of our culture (not to mention our software). Worth the long read.

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · last yr.

AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces. AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse. This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.

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What a mensch. (But we already knew that)

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · last yr.

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Tonight, I can’t help but think of how much joy, and hope, this victory would bring to Michael Brooks.

Episode 200 of @haveyouheard.bsky.social is a gem. Come for @audreywatters.bsky.social, @biblioracle.bsky.social, and @benjaminjriley.bsky.social…stay for our producer Francisco Rafart, who makes a surprise guest appearance at the end.

#200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype

Play #200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Given this was a full, good faith effort sunsetted bc it didn’t sufficiently reduce algorithmic bias, I wonder whether it should be considered a failure of responsible computing, or, a success? Not deploying systems that don’t alleviate harms as intended seems like “responsible computing” to me.

Eileen Guo@eileenguo.bsky.social · last yr.

New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun: Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work. Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...

More of this pls.

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · last yr.

See, iNaturalist? this is how you do it: "Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash" from @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social at @404media.co www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

A reminder that submissions to this year's @civicsoftech.bsky.social free, online conference are due on Saturday, June 14. This year's 🔥🔥🔥 keynotes are Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard . The theme is Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems. Submit here: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

Techdirt@techdirt.com · last yr.

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...