Charles Logan
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
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Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
kappanonline.org
Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
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Excited to announce the publication of our article "AI Unplugged: Exploring Pathways from Physical Simulation to Conceptualization of AI Reasoning Processes" in @acmtoce.bsky.social. We present 4 activities and explore how they support conceptualization of AI reasoning.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
AI Unplugged: Exploring Pathways from Physical Simulation to Conceptualization of AI Reasoning Processes | ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Young adolescents interact with AI daily, but there is a lack of approachable, concrete
opportunities for them to develop an understanding of AI reasoning processes. We leverage
theories of embodied l...
dl.acm.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Excited to announce the publication of our article "AI Unplugged: Exploring Pathways from Physical Simulation to Conceptualization of AI Reasoning Processes" in @acmtoce.bsky.social. We present 4 activities and explore how they support conceptualization of AI reasoning.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Check out @civicsoftech.bsky.social's Privacy Week events organized by @banvillemorgan.bsky.social on January 28 and January 29: www.civicsoftechnology.org/privacy
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Check out @civicsoftech.bsky.social's Privacy Week events organized by @banvillemorgan.bsky.social on January 28 and January 29: www.civicsoftechnology.org/privacy
Hey Chicagoland educators! I’ll be joining Northwestern faculty and staff once more for the School of Education and Social Policy’s Summer Learning Series for Educators happening June 23-25.
Read about the series at: sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
And here’s the information on my session:
Read about the series at: sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
And here’s the information on my session:
January 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Hey Chicagoland educators! I’ll be joining Northwestern faculty and staff once more for the School of Education and Social Policy’s Summer Learning Series for Educators happening June 23-25.
Read about the series at: sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
And here’s the information on my session:
Read about the series at: sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
And here’s the information on my session:
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2025 - What a year it was!
Here's our roundup of 2025's most-read blog posts, new curriculum resources, reviews, and more.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2025-a-...
Here's our roundup of 2025's most-read blog posts, new curriculum resources, reviews, and more.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2025-a-...
2025: A Year of Civics of Tech — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
January 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
2025 - What a year it was!
Here's our roundup of 2025's most-read blog posts, new curriculum resources, reviews, and more.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2025-a-...
Here's our roundup of 2025's most-read blog posts, new curriculum resources, reviews, and more.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2025-a-...
“[F]racked gas companies are fully backed by the Trump administration, with its ideological dedication to fossil fuels and its cozy relationship with billionaire oil and gas donors. For its part, Big Tech is going along, largely sidelining its purported commitments to renewable energy."
Data centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.
Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom
Data centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.
buff.ly
January 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
“[F]racked gas companies are fully backed by the Trump administration, with its ideological dedication to fossil fuels and its cozy relationship with billionaire oil and gas donors. For its part, Big Tech is going along, largely sidelining its purported commitments to renewable energy."
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Rethinking Schools published my article about pushing back on some of the arguments made by those seeking to rush AI tools into schools.
Resisting AI Mania in Schools
A former English teacher takes on many of the arguments of AI promoters.
rethinkingschools.org
January 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Rethinking Schools published my article about pushing back on some of the arguments made by those seeking to rush AI tools into schools.
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This is where the AI push into schools feels quite parallel to all other reforms of past decades:
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This is where the AI push into schools feels quite parallel to all other reforms of past decades:
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence
2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success
3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful
(#3 is already happening, btw)
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This zine was created on a quiet, meditative afternoon in November in Seattle, at a workshop led by @dairinstitute.bsky.social 's Dylan Baker -- a lovely experience and a beautiful result!
zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...
zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...
The DAIR Zine Library
A collection of zines from the DAIR Institute
zines.dair-institute.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:10 AM
This zine was created on a quiet, meditative afternoon in November in Seattle, at a workshop led by @dairinstitute.bsky.social 's Dylan Baker -- a lovely experience and a beautiful result!
zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...
zines.dair-institute.org/possible-fut...
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
A cool project using open source data to map data center construction - and perhaps another model that educators might use with students to investigate the infrastructure of AI.
Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are betting the entire American economy on the continued growth of AI, a mission that’ll require spending billions of dollars on datacenters and new energy infrastructure.
These researchers are tracking their physical imprint with an interactive map:
These researchers are tracking their physical imprint with an interactive map:
Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters
The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world.
www.404media.co
January 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
A cool project using open source data to map data center construction - and perhaps another model that educators might use with students to investigate the infrastructure of AI.
Solidarity with all the bleary-eyed caregivers at the trampoline park this morning who’re perhaps regretting the decision to enjoy an extra glass of champagne last night.
January 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Solidarity with all the bleary-eyed caregivers at the trampoline park this morning who’re perhaps regretting the decision to enjoy an extra glass of champagne last night.
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EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
Reminder and energy for 2026: "The future [edtech vendors are] selling has not arrived — and perhaps it never will. But the de-skilling, surveillance, and extraction — all of that is happening now, in our classrooms, today. The Luddites would recognize this moment and act on it, and we should too."
Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
kappanonline.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reminder and energy for 2026: "The future [edtech vendors are] selling has not arrived — and perhaps it never will. But the de-skilling, surveillance, and extraction — all of that is happening now, in our classrooms, today. The Luddites would recognize this moment and act on it, and we should too."
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MAIHT3k, Ep 69:
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
I thought it would take at least some effort to tear this paper-shaped object apart. Instead, it was so flimsy it disintegrated under the force of @alexhanna.bsky.social & I simply … reading it.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
I thought it would take at least some effort to tear this paper-shaped object apart. Instead, it was so flimsy it disintegrated under the force of @alexhanna.bsky.social & I simply … reading it.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
MAIHT3k, Ep 69:
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
I thought it would take at least some effort to tear this paper-shaped object apart. Instead, it was so flimsy it disintegrated under the force of @alexhanna.bsky.social & I simply … reading it.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
I thought it would take at least some effort to tear this paper-shaped object apart. Instead, it was so flimsy it disintegrated under the force of @alexhanna.bsky.social & I simply … reading it.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
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Only 8 states and DC have minimum salaries for teachers that exceed the minimum salary that ICE is offering to agents. Yet, unlike ICE agents, teachers in every state are required to have a bachelor's degree.
December 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Only 8 states and DC have minimum salaries for teachers that exceed the minimum salary that ICE is offering to agents. Yet, unlike ICE agents, teachers in every state are required to have a bachelor's degree.
"We have much work to do to make our institutions – educational and otherwise – into something else. We cannot do it chained to the technologies that are designed to stop us from ever even thinking about becoming free. But we can do it,” writes Audrey Watters.
Days Gone By
What a terrible year. Good riddance to today being the very last of it.
Way back when I used to publish things on Hack Education, I was always proud of my end-of-year stories -- the series of article...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"We have much work to do to make our institutions – educational and otherwise – into something else. We cannot do it chained to the technologies that are designed to stop us from ever even thinking about becoming free. But we can do it,” writes Audrey Watters.
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and most importantly and most proudly this year, to the teachers, leaders, makers, and haters leading an organized critique and refusal of AI, especially my cohort @ehayot.bsky.social and Krista Muratore, against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
and most importantly and most proudly this year, to the teachers, leaders, makers, and haters leading an organized critique and refusal of AI, especially my cohort @ehayot.bsky.social and Krista Muratore, against-a-i.com
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It was easy to see this coming & yes, you can now pay to have the most popular chatbot spew your favored misinformation (I believe this was already happening to some degree). And many schools are patsies.
But, I think this is also a sign of desperate times at OpenAI…
But, I think this is also a sign of desperate times at OpenAI…
Good thing many a university leadership team hasn't embedded OpenAI into their institutional infrastructure 🫠
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
December 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It was easy to see this coming & yes, you can now pay to have the most popular chatbot spew your favored misinformation (I believe this was already happening to some degree). And many schools are patsies.
But, I think this is also a sign of desperate times at OpenAI…
But, I think this is also a sign of desperate times at OpenAI…
Good thing many a university leadership team hasn't embedded OpenAI into their institutional infrastructure 🫠
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Good thing many a university leadership team hasn't embedded OpenAI into their institutional infrastructure 🫠
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"When we give credence to the idea of AGI .. it signals that a computer program that is proficient at … predicting words from other words … can do important social and economic work, such as addressing gaps in major social services, doing science autonomously, and “solving” climate change.”
The Myth of AGI | TechPolicy.Press
Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender write that claims of "Artificial General Intelligence" are a cover for abandoning the current social contract.
www.techpolicy.press
December 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"When we give credence to the idea of AGI .. it signals that a computer program that is proficient at … predicting words from other words … can do important social and economic work, such as addressing gaps in major social services, doing science autonomously, and “solving” climate change.”
Got the boys an over-the-door basketball hoop and a lot of mini basketballs and now I’m teaching them the various NBA Jam catchphrases and trust me when I say we are both heating up and on fire!
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Got the boys an over-the-door basketball hoop and a lot of mini basketballs and now I’m teaching them the various NBA Jam catchphrases and trust me when I say we are both heating up and on fire!
"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.
Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming - AI & SOCIETY
This article interrogates how algorithmic infrastructures and AI reshape social life through childhood, civic identity, and education. Drawing on Anders’ account of Promethean shame, Baudrillard’s not...
link.springer.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.
Reposted by Charles Logan
Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
kappanonline.org
December 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM