The final issue of our series on critical perspectives on digital platforms in ELA teacher education is published. We are so grateful to all of our brilliant contributors. Check it out!

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, Dominique McDaniel and Matthew Osborn write “From Platforms to Pedagogy: Exploring How Youth’s Social Media Practices Can Shape Teacher Education Through Culturally Digitized Pedagogy.” Check it out!

"My message to parents is this: alongside teachers, your voices are crucial in holding tech companies to account for what they build, how they sell it and the values they embed in classrooms."

Hear, hear!

Do you have a project (research, curriculum, advocacy) or want to distribute a call for proposals/chapters/etc?

On our contact page is a Blog Post Proposal form - we welcome contributions from our community!

www.civicsoftechnology.org/contact

For the blog today: An interview with @andyliddell.bsky.social!

By Celeste Barber, a high school student who participated in the Digital Civics club led by @alliethrall.bsky.social

~How to challenge EdTech, just in time for back-to-school~

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/holding...

In today's @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog: Celeste, a high school student, interviews @andyliddell.bsky.social on the work of the EdTech Law Center and to "give clarification on how education companies influence students’ futures."

Celeste has been engaging in digital civic inquiry with me, @philnichols.bsky.social, and Kevin Magill for several years. She is interested in the politics of digital civic life, and it is her opinion that commercial edtech has no place in schools. Drop a comment in the blog to show her support!

Take note: Andy and Julie have some requests for the critical edtech community. They need expert witnesses to testify to the harms of edtech companies, and they need research to support their claims. Reach out to them if you can do either of these things to help hold edtech accountable!

I can’t tell what gives me more hope: @andyliddell.bsky.social and Julie’s work at the EdTech Law Center; or Celeste, a high school students’, brilliant engagement with their work in this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog.

AFT and university administrators may have bought into the AI hype, but we don't have to join them!

A really great resource that includes a page dedicated to labor bargaining (and more evidence that the Luddites were right for fighting the obnoxious machines of automation).

You love to see it. Here's to more caregiver + teacher coalitions to fight Big Tech!

Find it here or DM me for a PDF

New pub! This collaboration with @neilgshanks.bsky.social and @lizmagill.bsky.social was driven by a shared desire to imagine economic inquiry that draws from students’ lives and experiences and disrupts the patriarchal assumptions in the neoclassical paradigm. Share with social studies teachers!

@philnichols.bsky.social, Kevin and I hope digital civic inquiry gives young people the opportunity to critically examine their experiences and contribute to public thought as Athena does here. We see this type of learning as fundamental to democratic education in this political moment.

Through digital civic inquiry, Athena has used creative writing to make sense of and contribute to our shared learning. She, and her classmates, hope to educate adults about youth experiences with digital civic life: isolation during COVID, fearing what AI means for art, leaning on faith for hope.

What do young people have to contribute to conversations about digital civic life? Check out this @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog from Digital Civics Club student, Athena! If you care to show support to this young writer in her first publication, leave a comment on the blog!

Look out for more @civicsoftech.bsky.social posts this week to hear from two of the Digital Civics Club students themselves!

I’ve been engaging in digital civic inquiry with these brilliant young people for three years now, and I never want to stop! We’ve gotten to learn from and lean on each other during times when we need community and hope. Here are some insights from the experience…

If you're a caregiver who may have other, less techno-optimistic views of AI/GenAI, then you may be interested in the panel "Theorizing Caregiver Resistance to EdTech" that I'm convening with @alliethrall.bsky.social at next week's Civics of Technology conference. More info at:

Especially excited to co-facilitate an incredible panel on “Theorizing Caregiver Resistance to EdTech” with @charleswlogan.bsky.social. Panelists include Faith Boninger, @velislavahill.bsky.social, and @andyliddell.bsky.social. July 31 from 2:05-3:00pm EST. You can register for the conference now!

Mark your calendars! July 31-Aug. 1 is the @civicsoftech.bsky.social annual conference. It’s free and virtual!

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉

It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.

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