💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛

I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

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Our Fall 2025 catalog offers essential books on race and equity such as SANCTUARY SCHOOL by @chandlermiranda.bsky.social, CRITICAL AI IN K-12 CLASSROOMS by Stephanie Smith Budhai and @mariekheath.bsky.social, and others. Learn more and pre-order these titles here: https://bit.ly/42e1Q5o

oh dang! It's really happening! Stephanie Smith Budhai and I wrote a book on applying fugitive, abolitionist, and culturally sustaining pedagogies to teach with and about AI in K-12 spaces. You can preorder it now!

Looking forward to reading this latest article from Melissa Warr and @mariekheath.bsky.social!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Have no fear, Nathan. The NYT says that "AI isn't here to replace us...it's here to help us become 'superteachers'." Ghastly blather delivered in (AI-generated?) cut-and-paste corporate-speak. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/s...

New publication alert!

As powerful actors continue to push technology into classrooms, we wanted to know how educators develop critical technology consciousness.

Read more from @jbpleasa.bsky.social, Xiaoning Gui, @dankrutka.bsky.social, me, and @mariekheath.bsky.social. #EduSky

🤖NEW PUB🤖 Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators by a lot of our @civicsoftech.bsky.social team: @jbpleasa.bsky.social @mariekheath.bsky.social @charleswlogan.bsky.social

Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Just DM if you can't access it. /1

New post by Punya Mishra on the @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog

The ELIZA Effect-ion

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-eli...

@civicsoftech.bsky.social now has more Bluesky followers than we did over on Twitter. Am I happy or sad about this?

I joined Allie Thrall this week for a Civics of Technology post. We share parent testimonials and some initial observations about how parents navigate their critical approaches to ed-tech and the realities of technology-saturated schools. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/being-a...

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.

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Hey, higher ed institutions: Stop pre-obeying fascists. It won't save your budget. It won't curry favor. It won't protect you from the next thing. It just erodes democracy even more rapidly. www.chronicle.com/article/a-te...

A post reflecting on what Michelle Ciccone and I learned about practicing everyday resistance and refusal of ed-tech from a recent Civics of Technology panel featuring Marika Pfefferkorn, @dontworryteach.bsky.social, @autumm.bsky.social, and Ryan Smits. www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/lessons...