The politics of educational design … exploring how the coercive logics of neoliberal schooling are baked into the design of everyday physical objects such as classroom chairs (new O/A paper!) [1/8] 🪑🪑🪑 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🤖NEW BLOG POST🤖: Classroom Chairs Are EdTech, Too! by Jacob Pleasants & 🤖Omnibox Teachall🤖: civicsoftechnology.org/blog/classroom… In this post, Jacob and Dan offer thoughts on Neil Selwyn's new article concerning the coercive design of classroom chairs.

We are excited to announce speakers for the Annual Theme Weaving Kick-Off event. Denise Shanté will be presenting “design as a process of care.” Registration for the event is now open to network members. Learn more about Denise Shanté and to register buff.ly/3SavpiV .

Meet DJN’s Care Pod Team! buff.ly/3mUDhcR We welcome Jody Chan and Corina Fadel as they join Denise Shanté Brown in designing and dreaming liberatory cultures of care with Design Justice Network members. Learn more about each member of the Care Pod Team on DJN’s website

Gotta love a book club! Excited for these.

The second issue of DJN’s newsletter shares the announcement of our new Care Pod Team and a reminder for members to sign up for March 25th’s inaugural theme-weaving event. Available now on our website and via email – subscribe today! buff.ly/3JWafT3

📢 Registration for the Design Justice Network Care Pod’s first gathering is now open! buff.ly/42fHVRZ #DesignJustice #DesignJusticePrinciples #DesignJusticeNetwork #DesignJusticeNews #DesignJusticeCarePod #CultureOfCare

Call instructional designers/lx designers/folks working at the intersection of design & ed! We are ending our pause & will resume an every-other-Friday meeting schedule, starting tomorrow (5/5). Please reach out if you would like more info! #designjustice #instructionaldesign

Please join us for our next open meeting, this Friday May 19 at 9 am ET on Zoom! Tentative agenda items, & the link to register for Zoom, here: docs.google.com/document/d/1zO… Help shape the ID working group's next steps! #designjustice #designjusticenetwork #instructionaldesign

🤖CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED!🤖 It's happening again, y'all! The 2023 Civics of Tech conference🤖Liberatory Tech Action🤖 is accepting proposals through June 26. Drs. Pangrazio Luci Pangrazio and Marachi Dr. Roxana Marachi will keynote. Register today! civicsoftechnology.org/blog/join-us-t…

Please join us for our next open meeting on Friday June 2 at 9 am ET on Zoom! Help plan and realize the group's next steps. Tentative agenda items, & the link to register for Zoom, here: docs.google.com/document/d/1zO… #designjustice #designjusticenetwork #instructionaldesign

Launching a new podcast in September - 'Education Technology Society' ... focusing on the latest critical perspectives around digital education, education futures & EdTech. Subscribe/follow now on all the usual podcast platforms - this should be good! buzzsprout.com/1301377

Join us on Sept. 12 for info sessions abt our small groups for mutual support - an opportunity for IDs to informally meet & discuss the challenges & opportunities of practicing #designjustice in the context of #instructionaldesign. Learn more & register: docs.google.com/document/d/1sY…

Interested in finding out more about the DJN Instructional Design Working Group? Join us this Friday, Sept. 29 at 10 am ET for our monthly open meeting! You can view the planned agenda, and register for the Zoom link, here: docs.google.com/document/d/1zO… We hope to see you there!

Join #DesignJustice members, Jana Saadi, Madhurima Das, and Anastasia K. Ostrowski, for a talk about The Design Justice Pedagogy Summit, Embedding Equity and Justice into Academic Courses. Tues. Dec. 5 AT 1:30pm ET (GMT-05). REGISTER: buff.ly/3RveER3 #DJNMembers