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New blog post from Jacob Pleasants, 🤖Omnibox Teachall🤖, and me — based on our recent Harvard Ed Review article on teaching 'technoskepticism' in science, social studies, and ELA classrooms.

Full article here: meridian.allenpress.com/her/article-ab…

As always, happy to share a PDF if you need access.

📢📢📢CRITICAL AI PROUD TO PREVIEW INTRO TO SPECIAL ISSUE ON LLMS, GEN AI AND THE RISE OF CHATBOTS. Abstract and snips below/ 1 📢📢📢
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This will destroy students’ ability to write. We cannot allow this untested, under thought approach into our schools without consideration and consultation.

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When Learning Is Made Consequential: A Methodological Note on Repertoires - Kris D. Gutiérrez, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31…

Review of methods across my work, in social design-based research (my approach to utopian, equity centered, participatory design, & as worldmaking tools.

🟨Volume 49, Issue 2 (2024) of #LMT 🟪

This new Issue foregrounds the urgency of examining, in up-close empirical detail, the inequitable impacts of educational technologies in diverse settings.

Read all articles: tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/49/2

The need for educators to resist and refuse Big Tech and build coalitions to do so becomes much more urgent when the issues we're facing are framed in this way rather than ceding ground to the same companies and their exciting AI literacy lesson plans.

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Stay informed about the facts underlying the ShotSpotter debate with South Side Weekly’s multipart investigation of the technology and the company. southsideweekly.com/missed-shots-c…

This is a great overview by Brian Merchant of the whether AI will take your job, and also offers a concept that's useful to think about in education: the idea of generative AI as 'good enough' /1 bloodinthemachine.com/p/understandin…

Reposting this discussion from last year with Indigenous impact strategist Jeff Doctor: 'Resisting Artificial Intelligence Through Anti-Fascism and Indigenous Data Sovereignty' vimeo.com/892756845/c9c0…

Google and I have very different definitions of 'no cost.'

New article with Dr Anna Bunn on assessing the privacy practices of digital products in schools. It’s OA and in a Special Issue on children’s digital rights! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New zine alert! Collective Action in Tech and Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon zine on workers stories and (mis)dealings with generative AI. It was a pleasure to work with an amazing team on this!!

Another thing about Sal Khan’s book: I’m 36 pages in and with the exception of the opening anecdote about his daughter, every example, every epigraph quotes a man, and I’m starting to see this thing as one big AI hype manel.

This feels like one of deadliest flaws in Khan's sales pitch: his 'treatment of teaching is insulting as much as anything. He claims to want to provide technology to teachers and schools that will help them without bothering to understand what teachers do or how teaching works.'

If you have not seen the whole issue, edited by Carol Lee, Richard Learner, Vivian Gadsden, and David Osher, please take a look - each piece is 🔥 journals.sagepub.com/toc/RRE/current

For a great conversation on the all-important boring stuff: Anne-Marie Scott and Brenna Clarke Gray's 'Who cares about procurement?' books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0…