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@mchampagnie.bsky.social
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Teacher of Lit, multiracial matters, bred on sci-fi and Greek myths. Innovation Lead & Head of English
•asking loads of questions
•will not be quiet
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Ongoing exploration of the intersection between #AI, #multiraciality and #sci-fi at bit.ly/4qFVO9e Is it weird? What isn’t? 👽👾🧜🏼‍♀️
How to be a hybrid techno-human, part 2: getting comfortable with discomfort. The image is a green hued alien-woman-robot mix. She has a pensive human face, elongated skull, reminiscent of that of the xenomorph and seemingly mechanical-biological armour or wiring descending from the back of her neck, into her chest.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Ongoing exploration of the intersection of #sci-fi, #multiraciality and #AI at madeleinechampagnie.substack.com/p/how-to-be-... Weird? Yep. But what isn't? 👽 👾 🧜
How to be a hybrid techno-human, part 2: getting comfortable with discomfort. The image is a green hued alien-woman-robot mix. She has a pensive human face, elongated skull, reminiscent of that of the xenomorph and seemingly mechanical-biological armour or wiring descending from the back of her neck, into her chest.
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Knowledge archaeology could be a useful skill in the future. #AI #EduSky #EduSkyAI

open.substack.com/pub/madelein...
A student in silhouette holds a spade above ground. Below the earth we can see code, books and the word “knowledge”. Sepia tones
July 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I love this perspective. Standing in silence, dwarfed by the vastness of the church, four pillars spiralling up to heaven, minuscule and insignificant before the Pope’s coffin, Trump & Melania: silenced. In the end, nobody is bigger than death or God. #PopeFrancis
I love this perspective. Standing in silence, dwarfed by the vastness of the church, four pillars spiralling up to heaven, minuscule and insignificant before the Pope’s coffin, Trump & Melania: silenced. In the end, nobody is bigger than death or God.
April 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Love this
Morten Moorland’s Times Cartoon 22 April 25, depicting the entrance of Pope Francis by the shining gates of heaven with angels blasting trumpets for his arrival. We see his back as he sidesteps the ostentation of the main entrance to enter by a side door, marked, oppositely, “Service Entrance”.
April 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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GOOD GRIEF. The plot of ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ by Sinclair Lewis, NY, 1935, is basically describing USA 2025. Someone, please, get Netflix onto this! #dystopia #MAGA 😳😳😳 @netflix.com @drnjwaddell.bsky.social @orwellfdn.bsky.social
In 1936, American Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip enters the presidential election campaign on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 per year. Portraying himself as a champion of "the forgotten man" and "traditional" American values, Windrip defeats incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, and then beats his Republican opponent, Senator Walt Trowbridge, in the November election. Having previously foreshadowed some authoritarian measures to reorganize the government, Windrip outlaws dissent, incarcerates political enemies in concentration camps, and trains and arms a paramilitary force called the "Minute Men" (named after the Revolutionary War militias of the same name), who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of a corporatist regime. One of Windrip's first corporatist regime. One of Windrip's first acts as president is to eliminate the influence of Congress, which draws the ire of many citizens as well as the legislators themselves. The Minute Men respond to protests harshly, attacking demonstrators with bayonets. In addition to these actions, Windrip's administration, known as the Corpo government, curtails women's and minority rights, and eliminates individual states by subdividing the country into administrative sectors. The government of these sectors is managed by Corpo authorities, usually prominent businessmen or Minute Men officers. Those accused of crimes against the government appear before kangaroo courts presided over by military judges. A majority of Americans approve of these dictatorial measures, seeing them as painful but necessary steps to restore American power.
March 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Move from debate to dialogue. Binaries in AI pedagogy ignore a deeper proposition. #Edusky #EduSkyAI #AI
Unexplainably transparent AI discussing with a teacher in a classroom
February 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Some sobering stats and facts here arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17980
February 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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John Steinbeck, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ (1939).

Relevant to our relationship with AI? #EduSkyAI #AI #EdTech We need to remember the land we love.
“That man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide over an outcropping, kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself. When the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land.”
January 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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As has been said, teams go through stages of forming, storming, norming & performing when disrupted. @mikekentz.bsky.social and others' writing and thinking about #EduAI seem to be going through a similar cycle.

Here's my storming: n9.cl/apjsz

#WePreferUs
#EduSky #EduSkyAI
Silhouetted students chatting, surrounded by nature. #WePreferUs Generated by Canva because much as I would love to, I can’t draw and using AI allows me to create images, in an obvious counterpoint to my Substack post, yes, I know… :)
December 27, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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🌱 How about this: ask yourself, ‘Do I need to use a bottle of water or could I just google it?’ before inputting inane questions into LLMs. #EcoAI #EduSky #EduSkyAI 🌱
December 20, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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Intriguing! Found this on www.etymonline.com/word/glisten …is that what you meant?
December 1, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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An example of binary thinking, perhaps? Very few agree that students should or want to move to screen only learning. The vast majority I have spoken to or work with are simply adding the tool to the box, and doing it critically, if at all.
“We therefore need to focus more on finding ways to deeply integrate tools into effective classroom practice, rather than trying to replace teaches and peer interactions.”
December 1, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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We need to talk about this. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AI @mikekentz.bsky.social @leonfurze.com @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @edusky.bsky.social @aiineducation.bsky.social
1 100 word email on ChatGPT uses 1 500ml bottle of water: 140Wh = 7 full charges of an iPhone pro max.
November 28, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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OMG!! 💪🏼
November 20, 2024 at 10:14 PM