Maha Bali, PhD
@mahabali.bsky.social
Equity/care. Open connected educator. @bali_maha 🐦. Mahabali@mastodon.social
Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice 🇵🇸 #EduSky #highered
Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo
Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice 🇵🇸 #EduSky #highered
Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo
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Maha Bali, PhD
@mahabali.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Join us for the Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) Series this year from 15 April to 6 May, 2025 📅.
Read more and register here: bit.ly/ieh-2025
If you are at AUC or Kean University, register here: bit.ly/ieh25-auc-kean
#ieh25
Read more and register here: bit.ly/ieh-2025
If you are at AUC or Kean University, register here: bit.ly/ieh25-auc-kean
#ieh25
Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) Series. 15 April - 6 May, 2025
Join us for a three week reflection on facilitation, including three live sessions, and asynchronous activities throughout the experience.
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Join us to experience and explore together equitable facilitation.
Facilitated by @miazamoraphd.bsky.social , @nadinneabou.bsky.social Irene Maweu, Therea Destrebecq & Yasser Tamer
Details below via @equityunbound.bsky.social
Facilitated by @miazamoraphd.bsky.social , @nadinneabou.bsky.social Irene Maweu, Therea Destrebecq & Yasser Tamer
Details below via @equityunbound.bsky.social
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
🎉 We’re thrilled to share some amazing news with you… MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! 🎉
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
2025 Open Practices Awards
Open Practices are collective behaviors and techniques that open up access to educational opportunities. These practices promote and support the use of open educational resources, technologies, and so...
awards.oeglobal.org
October 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🎉 We’re thrilled to share some amazing news with you… MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! 🎉
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
Honored for @equityunbound.bsky.social to be among the shortlisted nominees for the OE Global Awards on "How We Share" alongside the work of Mays Imad
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
2025 Shortlist of Finalists
The annual Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary Individuals, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and inn...
awards.oeglobal.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Honored for @equityunbound.bsky.social to be among the shortlisted nominees for the OE Global Awards on "How We Share" alongside the work of Mays Imad
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
I find it interesting (but not frustrating or upsetting) that my non-peer-reviewed writing (on blogs or similar) get cited more often than my peer-reviewed articles. The issue is of course that academia counts/rewards the citations of the peer-reviewed ones only. Not the usefuleness of all of it.
October 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I find it interesting (but not frustrating or upsetting) that my non-peer-reviewed writing (on blogs or similar) get cited more often than my peer-reviewed articles. The issue is of course that academia counts/rewards the citations of the peer-reviewed ones only. Not the usefuleness of all of it.
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
To be honest, I only made it through about a paragraph or so of Paul LeBlanc before I skipped ahead to @mahabali.bsky.social‘s insightful critique. We are supposed to see the launch of their LE-1 this month, so I guess we will see what they are overhyping right now…
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
To be honest, I only made it through about a paragraph or so of Paul LeBlanc before I skipped ahead to @mahabali.bsky.social‘s insightful critique. We are supposed to see the launch of their LE-1 this month, so I guess we will see what they are overhyping right now…
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Not to constantly refer to one of my own translations, but Saitō's use of André Gorz's distinction between open and locking technologies is very pertinent here -- generative AI is locking tech masquerading as open tech
September 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Not to constantly refer to one of my own translations, but Saitō's use of André Gorz's distinction between open and locking technologies is very pertinent here -- generative AI is locking tech masquerading as open tech
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
Brood Parasites
Humans have always invested great meaning in birds. No surprise, what with the feathers, the flight. Each week, when I look at all the stories that've been told about education and technology and try ...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
A Letter to Letters — Grow Beyond Grades
In this letter, Subhiksha Sreeram breaks up with grades, recalling how letters once ruled her worth and turned learning into a numbers game. She shares how chasing A’s left her anxious, perfectionisti...
growbeyondgrades.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
#ICYMI, last week we spoke with @mahabali.bsky.social on #digitalliteracy and #AI in the classroom. Tune in at: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
August 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#ICYMI, last week we spoke with @mahabali.bsky.social on #digitalliteracy and #AI in the classroom. Tune in at: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
In this podcast episode, I respond to Matter & Space and critique their claims to transform edu with AI
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
In this podcast episode, I respond to Matter & Space and critique their claims to transform edu with AI
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
I'm giving a keynote today on Cultivating socially just care in academia today via SLU, starting 1.15pm Sweden time, 11.15 GMT, 2.15pm Cairo, and way early ET 7.15am
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SLU Education Conference Day 1 Keynote: Dr. Maha Bali. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Keynote talk will start at 13:15 and will be streamed from Loftets hörsal i Ultuna.
slu-se.zoom.us
August 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm giving a keynote today on Cultivating socially just care in academia today via SLU, starting 1.15pm Sweden time, 11.15 GMT, 2.15pm Cairo, and way early ET 7.15am
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
🎧 New Episode: AI in the Classroom w/ @mahabali.bsky.social
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech
AI in the Classroom: Power, Bias and Opportunity with Maha Bali
Podcast Episode · Educating to Be Human Podcast · 08/19/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🎧 New Episode: AI in the Classroom w/ @mahabali.bsky.social
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech
Unexpected Reflections from the ABBA Museum Experience.
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
Unexpected Reflections from the ABBA Museum Experience
I love ABBA. My parents and uncle turned me into music of their generation when I was young, and I was hooked on them, the Beatles, Boney M, Beegees. My husband is similar, so our teen is also into…
blog.mahabali.me
August 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Unexpected Reflections from the ABBA Museum Experience.
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
Can a flight cancelation be a gift?
(This is me theorizing approaches to uncertainty and its intersection with privilege based on a recent experience)
blog.mahabali.me/parenting/ca...
(This is me theorizing approaches to uncertainty and its intersection with privilege based on a recent experience)
blog.mahabali.me/parenting/ca...
Can a Flight Cancelation Be a Gift?
I start this blogpost the morning after arriving here in Sweden where I’m expected to give a workshop and a keynote soon. The question “how is this a gift to me?” came from the person who inv…
blog.mahabali.me
August 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Can a flight cancelation be a gift?
(This is me theorizing approaches to uncertainty and its intersection with privilege based on a recent experience)
blog.mahabali.me/parenting/ca...
(This is me theorizing approaches to uncertainty and its intersection with privilege based on a recent experience)
blog.mahabali.me/parenting/ca...
Such a useful and important article when assessing tech for accessibility
Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox.
Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...
Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox.
Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...
Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox — Civics of Technology
The authors of this week’s blog intersect technoskepticism with disability studies to offer a series of questions that help in evaluating assistive tech.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
August 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Such a useful and important article when assessing tech for accessibility
Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox.
Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...
Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox.
Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...
Can't wait to chat with @hypervisible.bsky.social - join us! #MYFest25 - details below
Join Chris Gilliard to discuss themes from his upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Explore how AI-driven tech blurs lines between control & convenience.
📅Tue, July 29 | 🕔 5–6pm Cairo | 2–3pm GMT
🔗Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi...
Fee Waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#Surveillance #AI #HigherEd
📅Tue, July 29 | 🕔 5–6pm Cairo | 2–3pm GMT
🔗Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi...
Fee Waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#Surveillance #AI #HigherEd
MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025
Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.
bit.ly
July 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Can't wait to chat with @hypervisible.bsky.social - join us! #MYFest25 - details below
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Sponsored by the AI Pedagogy Project at Harvard's metaLAB and the Data Nutrition Project, this event is free, open to all, and designed to make AI approachable and relevant for you.
Honored to be giving a keynote with @mahabali.bsky.social alongside @randomwalker.bsky.social, @eryk.bsky.social +
Honored to be giving a keynote with @mahabali.bsky.social alongside @randomwalker.bsky.social, @eryk.bsky.social +
July 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sponsored by the AI Pedagogy Project at Harvard's metaLAB and the Data Nutrition Project, this event is free, open to all, and designed to make AI approachable and relevant for you.
Honored to be giving a keynote with @mahabali.bsky.social alongside @randomwalker.bsky.social, @eryk.bsky.social +
Honored to be giving a keynote with @mahabali.bsky.social alongside @randomwalker.bsky.social, @eryk.bsky.social +
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Register for a dynamic, free two-day virtual AI Summit August 13-14 for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can leverage these tools in our everyday lives.
publicaisummit.org
publicaisummit.org
Public AI Summit
A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...
publicaisummit.org
July 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Register for a dynamic, free two-day virtual AI Summit August 13-14 for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can leverage these tools in our everyday lives.
publicaisummit.org
publicaisummit.org
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Excited to co-organize the #PublicAISummit (Aug 13–14) with the Data Nutrition Project + metaLAB (at) Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project!
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
💻 Free + virtual
🌍 For the public
🔗 Register: publicaisummit.org
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
💻 Free + virtual
🌍 For the public
🔗 Register: publicaisummit.org
Public AI Summit
A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...
publicaisummit.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excited to co-organize the #PublicAISummit (Aug 13–14) with the Data Nutrition Project + metaLAB (at) Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project!
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
💻 Free + virtual
🌍 For the public
🔗 Register: publicaisummit.org
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
💻 Free + virtual
🌍 For the public
🔗 Register: publicaisummit.org
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Prompt libraries for higher ed!
Lessons from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's megaprompt!
Lessons from deep collaboration on the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social prompt!
Slides for Let’s Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts, a MyFest presentation
link.annarmills.com/letsprompt
Lessons from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's megaprompt!
Lessons from deep collaboration on the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social prompt!
Slides for Let’s Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts, a MyFest presentation
link.annarmills.com/letsprompt
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
July 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Prompt libraries for higher ed!
Lessons from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's megaprompt!
Lessons from deep collaboration on the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social prompt!
Slides for Let’s Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts, a MyFest presentation
link.annarmills.com/letsprompt
Lessons from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's megaprompt!
Lessons from deep collaboration on the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social prompt!
Slides for Let’s Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts, a MyFest presentation
link.annarmills.com/letsprompt
Join us for Vanessa Andreotti & her daughter Giovanna's session on Hospicing and Outgroeing Modernity.
Register for MYFest25 - more details below:
Register for MYFest25 - more details below:
Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity
Vanessa & Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti explore meta-relationality, AI & world endings.
📅July 29 | 🕗 8–10pm Cairo | 5–7pm GMT
🔗Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi...
💸 Fee waiver available
📩 Email: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #AI #Relationality #HigherEd
Vanessa & Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti explore meta-relationality, AI & world endings.
📅July 29 | 🕗 8–10pm Cairo | 5–7pm GMT
🔗Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi...
💸 Fee waiver available
📩 Email: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #AI #Relationality #HigherEd
MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025
Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.
bit.ly
July 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Join us for Vanessa Andreotti & her daughter Giovanna's session on Hospicing and Outgroeing Modernity.
Register for MYFest25 - more details below:
Register for MYFest25 - more details below:
Typical: white man at an AI conference trying to convince the small group of women and people of color that AI bias isn't that big of a deal, coz all isms are overrated anyway.
July 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Typical: white man at an AI conference trying to convince the small group of women and people of color that AI bias isn't that big of a deal, coz all isms are overrated anyway.
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
the fab @mahabali.bsky.social has written about this as well. blog.mahabali.me/educational-... The AI Cultural Hallucination Bias – Reflecting Allowed
The AI Cultural Hallucination Bias
Tell me if I’m phrasing this correctly. I think one of the reasons I have conversations with people about AI and we view it very differently is either: There is an AI cultural bias in the hal…
blog.mahabali.me
June 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
the fab @mahabali.bsky.social has written about this as well. blog.mahabali.me/educational-... The AI Cultural Hallucination Bias – Reflecting Allowed