Litgram
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Montessori & Public English teacher. Litgram on pinterest and elsewhere. Too_Litgram on instagram.
Marketing makes this look like it's being sold to authors. It's not.
It's being sold to people who don't care about ideas, readers, and creativity. It's being sold to people that want as little friction as possible in making money, even if that means selling garbage. Welcome to Posthumanities.
It's being sold to people who don't care about ideas, readers, and creativity. It's being sold to people that want as little friction as possible in making money, even if that means selling garbage. Welcome to Posthumanities.
finally, AI can help writers with the boring business of world- building so we can get down to the fun stuff: search-engine optimization
February 5, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Marketing makes this look like it's being sold to authors. It's not.
It's being sold to people who don't care about ideas, readers, and creativity. It's being sold to people that want as little friction as possible in making money, even if that means selling garbage. Welcome to Posthumanities.
It's being sold to people who don't care about ideas, readers, and creativity. It's being sold to people that want as little friction as possible in making money, even if that means selling garbage. Welcome to Posthumanities.
Welcome to Uncanny Valley High. 😑
"What happens when educators deploy NPCs for interactive learning? When artists create installations featuring characters with distinct personalities? When builders integrate them into complex, evolving storylines?" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu
New AI-driven NPCs can see, navigate, and chat
"I’m a developer who’s spent decades working with game engines and AI systems. And watching NPCs stand motionless in elaborate, carefully crafted virtual spaces felt like a waste. These worlds had 3D environments, physics, avatars, ambiance—everything needed for immersion except inhabitants that felt alive.
The recent explosion of accessible large language models presented an opportunity I couldn’t ignore. What if we could teach NPCs to actually perceive their environment, understand what people were saying to them, and respond with something resembling intelligence?"
www.hypergridbusiness.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Welcome to Uncanny Valley High. 😑
“The entire point of this class is the labor, so a labor-saving device would be beside the point,” Rotella said. “It’s like joining the track team and doing your laps on an electric scooter. You went around the track. Congratulations.”
Ultimately, we must build a culture of intrinsic engagement.
Ultimately, we must build a culture of intrinsic engagement.
You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom.Get Creative Instead via @insidehighered www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #plagiarism #cheating
You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead.
Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Faculty members explain how to keep students engaged in their own learning and prevent them from relying on AI.
www.insidehighered.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“The entire point of this class is the labor, so a labor-saving device would be beside the point,” Rotella said. “It’s like joining the track team and doing your laps on an electric scooter. You went around the track. Congratulations.”
Ultimately, we must build a culture of intrinsic engagement.
Ultimately, we must build a culture of intrinsic engagement.
Good to know that Line 5 is helping Toronto keep our world class ranking.
Toronto has the SLOWEST tram/streetcar network in the world.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Good to know that Line 5 is helping Toronto keep our world class ranking.
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"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire, cloaked in ethics and bundled with a Terms of Service. The university didn’t resist. It clicked ‘Accept.’"
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Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...
The Impact Of AI Tools On The Next Decade Of Education Innovation
Education technology is more of a commitment to shaping a future where every learner has the tools to succeed.
www.forbes.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...
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Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.
A solid read for any educator concerned about data extraction, "optimizing" learning, and corporate EdTech's insistence that their way is the future. Bonus points for incorporating science-leaning terms to describe human interactions. (Fun to imagine!)
Could edtech and AI in education be imagined otherwise? In our paper in latest issue of Oxford Review of Education @arathings.bsky.social, Carolina Valladares Celis, Jessica Pykett, @kerifacer.bsky.social and I surface four alternative orientations to tech in education (1/2) doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation
As EdTech industries grow in reach and power it is imperative to motivate conditions for ethical challenge and contestation, always remaining attentive to the kinds of education futures that domina...
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A solid read for any educator concerned about data extraction, "optimizing" learning, and corporate EdTech's insistence that their way is the future. Bonus points for incorporating science-leaning terms to describe human interactions. (Fun to imagine!)
As long as educational systems are hampered by a product vs process mentality (i.e. test scores vs skill building), this will be a problem.
Does product matter to education? Yes. Should we keep weighting it as 90% of a student's marks? No.
Does product matter to education? Yes. Should we keep weighting it as 90% of a student's marks? No.
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
As long as educational systems are hampered by a product vs process mentality (i.e. test scores vs skill building), this will be a problem.
Does product matter to education? Yes. Should we keep weighting it as 90% of a student's marks? No.
Does product matter to education? Yes. Should we keep weighting it as 90% of a student's marks? No.
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I do not like AI in Slack
I do not like AI on Mac
I do not like AI in Zoom
I don’t want AI in my room
I do not want ChatGPT —
please stop, AI, and leave me be!
I don’t want AI here, or there;
I don’t want AI anywhere!
(… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)
I do not like AI on Mac
I do not like AI in Zoom
I don’t want AI in my room
I do not want ChatGPT —
please stop, AI, and leave me be!
I don’t want AI here, or there;
I don’t want AI anywhere!
(… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)
I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
June 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I do not like AI in Slack
I do not like AI on Mac
I do not like AI in Zoom
I don’t want AI in my room
I do not want ChatGPT —
please stop, AI, and leave me be!
I don’t want AI here, or there;
I don’t want AI anywhere!
(… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)
I do not like AI on Mac
I do not like AI in Zoom
I don’t want AI in my room
I do not want ChatGPT —
please stop, AI, and leave me be!
I don’t want AI here, or there;
I don’t want AI anywhere!
(… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)
Sorely tempted to add "disappoofed" to my lexicon. #genAI The rest is going in my folder of AI examples to explain what #AI-isn't
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
AI promotes product and eliminates process.
The exact opposite of what we should want in education. What a beautifully concise observation.
The exact opposite of what we should want in education. What a beautifully concise observation.
This race itself shows that AI correspond to acceleration and productivity, processes that should be held away from education and research which need methodology, time, patience, vigilance, care, etc.
In other words, this race itself shows that AI is a threat to education
In other words, this race itself shows that AI is a threat to education
June 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
AI promotes product and eliminates process.
The exact opposite of what we should want in education. What a beautifully concise observation.
The exact opposite of what we should want in education. What a beautifully concise observation.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"GenAI can ... [summarize, draft, & generate ideas.] But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you."
Partial integration is a can of poisoned worms and I don't see the preparation to support it at any grade. Analogy hits the mark to explain why. Great article.
Partial integration is a can of poisoned worms and I don't see the preparation to support it at any grade. Analogy hits the mark to explain why. Great article.
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"GenAI can ... [summarize, draft, & generate ideas.] But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you."
Partial integration is a can of poisoned worms and I don't see the preparation to support it at any grade. Analogy hits the mark to explain why. Great article.
Partial integration is a can of poisoned worms and I don't see the preparation to support it at any grade. Analogy hits the mark to explain why. Great article.