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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Sep 5

Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...

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Brood Parasites

Humans have always invested great meaning in birds. No surprise, what with the feathers, the flight. Each week, when I look at all the stories that've been told about education and technology and try ...

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Grow Beyond Grades @growbeyondgrades.org · Sep 3

“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫

High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.

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A Letter to Letters — Grow Beyond Grades

In this letter, Subhiksha Sreeram breaks up with grades, recalling how letters once ruled her worth and turned learning into a numbers game. She shares how chasing A’s left her anxious, perfectionisti...

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 28

Cultivating Learning Sanctuaries w/ Mays Imad: Explore neuroscience, theory & practices of trauma-informed teaching to build classrooms of resilience & care.
📅Aug28| 3–4:15pm GMT
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#LearningSanctuaries #TraumaInformedTeaching #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Dream That Creates With Me: Reclaiming Creativity & Imagination w/ Angela Gunder: Explore creative AI literacies through stories, reflection & a co-written manifesto.
📅Aug 18 | 3 PM GMT
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#AILiteracies #Imagination #Pedagogy

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 13

Knowledge Justice in Digital Spaces: Navigating Algorithmic Bias w/ @danid.bsky.social & Lea Sansom: Explore how bias shapes online voices & strategies for amplifying diversity.
📅Aug13| 3:30–5pm GMT
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#AlgorithmicBias #KnowledgeJustice

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 11

Poetic Practices for Living Creatively w/ @miazamoraphd.bsky.social & Kefah Ayesh: Explore mindfulness & practices that spark creativity, leading to shared open resources.
🗓Aug11| 4–5pm GMT
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#Mindfulness #Poetry #Creativity #MYFest25

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Stories We Teach By: Shifting the Pedagogy of the Distressed w/ Rebekah J. Bennetch: Reflect on pressures in higher ed & imagine teaching rooted in authenticity & care.
🗓Aug11| 3–4pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #Pedagogy #HigherEd #Academia

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 7

Learning From Students' Stories Using Narrative and Voice-Centred Approaches w/ Kathy Chandler: Explore what student stories reveal, conceal & ask of us as educators.
🗓Thu, Aug7 | 2–3pm GMT
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#NarrativeInquiry #StudentStories #Pedagogy

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 6

Body Mapping to Reflect on Wellbeing
Join Kathy Chandler for a quiet, creative session using body mapping to reflect on wellbeing in education.
🗓Wed, Aug 6 | 5–6pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #BodyMapping #Wellbeing #Education

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 6

How Teaching Philosophies Inform (and Explain?) AI Adoption
Join Maya Bialik & Peter Nilsson to explore how our philosophies shape AI adoption in education.
📅Wed, Aug 6 | 4–5pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #AIinEducation #Teaching #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 6

“Hospicing Modernity” book club w/ Theresa Destrebecq: Join a reflective book club session on harm, responsibility & transformation.
📅Wed, Aug 6 | 2–3:30pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #HospicingModernity #BookClub

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 5

Educating & Empowering GenZ w/Laila ElSerty& Rania Jabr: What motivates Gen Z learners, and how should we teach them? Join this session on mindset, AI, integrity & passion in language learning.
📅Aug 5 | 1pm GMT
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#GenZ #LanguageLearning

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 4

“The Human Nature of Writing” w/ @miazamoraphd.bsky.social & Kefah Ayesh: what makes writing human? Join us for a poetry-based session on expression, connection & creative value.
📅Mon, Aug 4 | 4–5pm GMT
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#HumanWriting #PoetryAndAI

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 4

A Peak into Classrooms that Heal and Inspire w/ Oumaima Elghazali: Explore mental health strategies you can use in any classroom. Expect reflection, practice & care.
📅Aug4| 2–3pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #MentalHealth #Healing #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Aug 4

With Uncertainty w/ @davecormier.bsky.social & @sokate.bsky.social : How do we work well in an uncertain world? Join this session on navigating uncertainty in teaching, care & collaboration.
📅Aug 4 | 12–1pm GMT
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#Uncertainty #pedagogy

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 31

Bridging Polarization: Join Katherine Yngve for Part II: share what worked, what didn’t & how we keep showing up across difference
📅Thu, Jul 31 | 3–4pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #BridgingPolarization #Dialogue #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 31

Rethinking DEI w/ Jamiella Brooks: What happens when the words we lean on (diversity, equity, inclusion) start to blur? Explore how to stay intentional in equity work.
📅Thu, Jul 31 | 1–2:15pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #DEI #Equity

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 30

Join Delphine Dall'Agata to reflect on slow learning, inclusion & intention in digital spaces. Explore metaphors & practices that center care & connection.
📅Wed, Jul30 | 2–3pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #SlowLearning #InclusiveDesign

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 28

Join Daniela Gachago & Shanali Govender to rethink learning design through radical flexibility & participatory parity.
📅 Today | 5–6pm GMT
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#PostGraduateEducation #SocialJustice #PostgradAccess

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 28

Preservation as resistance w/ @unabridgedopinions.com & Chris Millson: how power shapes what’s remembered & erased. Explore digital practices rooted in care& community.
📅Today| 2–3pm GMT
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#PreservationAsResistance #Education #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 27

@hypervisible.bsky.social we can't wait!!!! #MYFest25

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 27

Join Chris Gilliard to discuss themes from his upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Explore how AI-driven tech blurs lines between control & convenience.
📅Tue, July 29 | 🕔 5–6pm Cairo | 2–3pm GMT
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#Surveillance #AI #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 27

Join Chris Gilliard to discuss themes from his upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Explore how AI-driven tech blurs lines between control & convenience.
📅Tue, July 29 | 🕔 5–6pm Cairo | 2–3pm GMT
🔗Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi...
Fee Waiver: [email protected]
#Surveillance #AI #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity
Vanessa & Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti explore meta-relationality, AI & world endings.
📅July 29 | 🕗 8–10pm Cairo | 5–7pm GMT
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#MYFest25 #AI #Relationality #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 24

AI Feedback in a Human-Centered Writing Process: The Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) Approach – @annamillsoer.bsky.social & Julie Gamberg
Explore free tools for blending AI and peer feedback.
📅July24
🕒3:00 PM GMT
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#AI #HigherEd

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.

Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · Jul 23

Let’s Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts
@annamillsoer.bsky.social facilitates a session on AI prompt design in education, featuring different prompting strategies.
📅Today, 🕒3PM GMT
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#HigherEd #AI

MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025

Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.