Shea Smith
@qsprn.bsky.social
letterpress enthusiast | doctoral candidate • researching the datafication & platformization of education • quantum sufficit, pro re nata
Why are academics using GenAI to write articles, grade assignments, compose emails and a lot of other tasks that they would/should otherwise be doing themselves? A brief summary of our anonymous survey of over 200 academics' 'grey uses' of GenAI ... researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a...
Academic (mis)uses of GenAI
This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …
researchwhisperer.org
Modern acronyms for old world tools. Wood cuts by Moore Wood Type.
The Education Department has long collected civil rights data about things like bullying, harassment and disability services in schools, but it hasn't made the latest information public.
Federal civil rights data holds schools accountable. Under Trump, it's 6 months late
The Education Department has long collected civil rights data about things like bullying, harassment and disability services in schools, but it hasn't made the latest information public.
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“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”
What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"
Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT
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Research measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...
The problem with evidence production on AI in education
Photo by Camille Villanueva on Unsplash The research field of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) has a long history of investigating the effects of AI on learning and other educational out…
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com
Made a window for a print out of borders cast on a Linotype, then filled it with plants. #letterpress
ICYMI - The AI Resist List - nine different ways (and lots of practical examples) of how you can contribute to the fight against AI ... airesistlist.org
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
airesistlist.org
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
he promised to leave if he lost, where’s the clock on that
KTLA 5@ktla.com · 2mo agoSpencer Pratt unloads on 'commie animals' in aggressive L.A. mayoral race concession video
A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...
Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
404media.co
Fabricating Edtech Futures keynote talk by @benpatrickwill.bsky.social starting now at #edtech26 - learn more about Ben’s work on codeactsineducation.wordpress.com and on any good journal.
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Code Acts in Education explores how code, and the software algorithms and digital data practices it enables, are reshaping education in schools and universities. This site features updates from res…
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Is Ed-Tech Falling Out of Favour? ... new blog post: with the backlash against digital technology in schools gaining momentum, how can public faith be restored in ed-tech? criticaledtech.com/2026/05/10/i...
"The list of platforms that now mediate the basic functions of education ... is almost comically long ... most schools are running 10–15 different EdTech products that all promise efficiency, but in reality create confusion, frustration, and complicate what was once much simpler." 🎯
EmilyTav@emilytav.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Canvas hack that brought campuses globally to a standstill got me thinking about a piece that I wrote in @techpolicypress.bsky.social, about how “technology is the spinal cord of government.” I wrote a few thoughts on what this looks like in schools. www.thehomescreen.org/p/technology...
Why has Khan consistently failed to make good on his promises? Perhaps it's because he fundamentally misunderstands learning (and teaching). Punya Mishra explains in today's newsletter: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/why-sal...
Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Ghosts in the Machine AI Documentary Screening : Join our Civics of Tech community for an online screening of the new documentary, Ghosts in the Machine on Thu...
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MAGA: it’s insane that the UK is indicting people for social media posts Also MAGA: yay Comey got indicted for a social media posts! FAFO!!
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3mo agoBREAKING on MS NOW: James Comey has been indicted by the Trump Justice Department — again. This time, Comey has been indicted on charges alleging he made threats against Trump in that May 2025 social post of a picture of shells on the beach that spelled out "8647."
Recommended weekend listening: Silicon Valley's vision for schools is dreary and dystopian. It's also fueling a massive backlash against all things edtech soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
#217 Silicon Valley’s Dystopian Vision for Schools
As Silicon Valley’s tentacles reach ever more deeply into the nation’s public schools, a provocative new book sounds an emphatic “stop”! We talk to Tim Scott, author of Schooling for Silicon Valley, a
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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Spotted in one of my favorite bathrooms (in a print shop). A little pep talk for my fellow inky friends.
How many times will this guy attempt to “reinvent” education?
Serial Failure Sal Khan Wants to Take Over Higher Education
And anyone who cares about human-centered education should hope he fails.
insidehighered.com
🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 Anastasia Gouseti and Patricia Shaw ⬇️ investigate how digital platforms are adopted in two secondary schools in England and how they change the way schooling is done. Read the article here: lnkd.in/gX8bT58Z
"Exploring Teachers’ Repair & Maintenance Work Around GenAI Technologies" ... new open access article from our Swedish research on the considerable behind-the-scenes repair work that teachers end up having to do when using GenAI tools to 'assist' them! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Happy National Pet Day to everyone, and especially astronaut Leland Melvin, who famously snuck his dogs into his official NASA photo. This poster is a combo of wood type and little metal ornament animal faces. #letterpress www.starshaped.com/postersprint...
On "AI Literacy Day" I suggest reading "The (im)possibility of AI literacy" by @lucipangrazio.bsky.social questioning whether "literacy" is even the right response to AI and, if so, how a meaningful AI literacy could build on the history of "critical digital literacies" doi.org/10.1080/1743...
