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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 9d

The hero we need 😭

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Computers in Education Society of Ireland @cesi-ie.bsky.social · 10d

Join us on 9 October for our next Open Café. Thibaud Keller (PhD student, Maynooth University) and Conor Murphy (Community Manager, Dublin Linux Community) will join us to discuss "Open source and open education: democratising computer literacy". www.cesi.ie/cesi-open-ca... #EdChatIe

Signage above door that reads Computers and Open, which is lit up

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · 25d

“I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not”.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25d

"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · Aug 30

“Now, at last, we can see, as we move toward a truly efficient future, that the greatest gift we ever received was being forced to exit Eden. To leave the garden behind”.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 30

"Dance? You mean, like, moving your body vigorously while producing nothing? Wait? Humans are still dancing? Why? We have robots that can dance. Do you know how inefficient it is for human bodies to dance?"

How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI

Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to si...

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Bea de los Arcos @celtatis.bsky.social · Aug 14

'We Like Sharing', a repository of #photos by staff, students, alumni and friends of TU Delft, all available under a Creative Commons license www.flickr.com/photos/welik... #WijDelenGraag #WeLikeSharing

We Like Sharing

Explore We Like Sharing’s 1,546 photos on Flickr!

www.flickr.com

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Tom Farrelly @gasta.me · Aug 27

My new blog post - The Art of the Gasta: How This Presentation Style is an Expression of Openness

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The Art of the Gasta: How This Presentation Style is an Expression of Openness

In the world of public speaking, we’re constantly seeking new ways to connect with our audience. We’ve moved beyond the stale lecture hall, embracing everything from interactive worksho…

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Aug 20

75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More

Between 1985 and 1988, a teenager by the name of Sohrab Habibion was attending punk and post-punk shows around the Washington, DC area. What set him apart was the bulky video camera he’d bring to the ...

www.openculture.com

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Mike Hogan @michaelhogan.bsky.social · Aug 17

Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education: Putting a Stake in the Ground.

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Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education: Putting a Stake in the Ground.

The rapidly developing connections between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and education (AI&ED) have prompted widespread policy and institutional responses. H

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Nov 19

A brief thread on alt-text.

Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · Aug 8

Doing DEI when you can't use the D word, the E word, or the I word:

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/doing...

Doing DEI when you can’t use the ‘D’, the ‘E’ or the ‘I’ word

‘DEI is dead, long live DEI!’ How to resist attacks on DEI, develop deep resilience and reimagine and reform your practice with kindness

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Enilda Romero-Hall @eromerohall.bsky.social · Aug 8

New Blog Post: "Book Published: Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online" #EduSky #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #TLSky

Book Published: Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online

Athabasca University Press recently published our book as part of the Issues in Distance Education series. Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online edited by Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Enilda Romero-Hal…

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Aug 6

Having a robot write irrelevant emails for you sounds great and inconsequential in theory but it’s unsurprising to me how quickly people have moved the goalposts to having the robot write anything for you that would require personality or emotional labor

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PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social · Aug 6

From the Pit to the Page. Every Riff Has a Story. All punk and education books are 40% off through 9/1 with code THINK at checkout. Shop essential punk reads now: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · Aug 5

I don't like tagging people en masse, but please do share if you find your work included. You all know who you are. :)

Might be of interest to you, too, @eam0.bsky.social

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · Aug 5

At the 'Education after the algorithm' symposium,
@slowtech2000.bsky.social and I facilitated a workshop on sustainability literacies in postdigital learning design with the intent to develop an OER of curated zines. We're so pleased to finally share the video and documents: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · Aug 3

Echoing this advice as a former teacher that destroyed her body for the sake of cute totes and messenger bags in her twenties…

Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · Aug 3

My advice to new teachers:

Get a backpack 😅

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Aug 1

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Aug 2

Athlone Town power past ZNK Agram to continue European charge

Two goals from Madison Gibson either side of a Hannah Waesch earned the home side a comfortable win

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy Friday and Day 2 of our conference!

Get excited for our Day 2 keynote: the one and only @hypervisible.bsky.social

Starting in less than 30 minutes!!!

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Jul 30

Saying this with as much love as possible, but please stop using AI generated graphics for activism. Plenty of artists willingly donate their time and work designing for activists, and always have. It's not necessary to step on an increasingly struggling group in order to promote worthy causes.

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Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · Jul 26

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED www.kqed.org/news/12...

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED

The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · Jul 23

I will say again, generative AI is the non-consensual U2 album of the consumer tech world.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Jul 23

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.

How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

How big tech is force-feeding us AI

Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · Jul 23

The @civicsoftech.bsky.social Project host a wonderful annual conference that is online, free, and provides a welcoming space for critical discussion on ed tech. I'm delighted to present again this year, and strongly encourage others to join. www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

Civics of Technology: Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems, July 31st and August 1st, keynote speakers Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard

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DAIR Possible Futures @dairfutures.bsky.social · Jul 21

When everything is aflame, we need to make the space to create. 🔥 Check out few imagined futures from our last iteration of the Possible Futures workshop. See the full zine at https://zines.dair-institute.org/possible-futures-volume-2!

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · Jul 17

It's always a pleasure to join the #MAET staff and students to examine ed tech practices and develop research projects through a critical, equitable-lens. I also have the pleasure of working with the #MALXD programme throughout the year, but it's so valuable to spend time together in person as well.

Computers in Education Society of Ireland @cesi-ie.bsky.social · Jul 17

Our members joined @michiganstateu.bsky.social #MAET students during their summer programme at @uniofgalway.bsky.social to reflect on theory and reality across our teaching contexts, examine practice through a 'street view', and develop action research projects in technology-enhanced learning.

Chris and Liz share the collaborative question-storming activity

Mags Amond holds court sharing her experiences with a small group of MAET students

Una Fleming listens intently to MAET students sharing their experiences

Fiona Concannon explains the Irish context to s small group of MAET students

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