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Book Commitment Issues? Join the Civics of Tech Book Club!
Join the Civics of Tech summer series book club to read and chat about Design Justice, More than a Glitch, and Weapons of Math Destruction!
Classroom Chairs Are EdTech, Too!
In this post, Jacob Pleasants and Dan Krutka offer thoughts on Neil Selwyn’s new article concerning the coercive design of classroom chairs.
Prior to (or instead of) using ChatGPT with your students
In this cross-post from Autumm Caines’ Is a Liminal Space blog, Autumm discusses what to do prior to (or instead of) using ChatGPT with your students.
Speculative Fabulation: Authoring Ourselves Into Stories That Were Not Written For Us
In this post, José Ramón Lizárraga (aka Dr. ThemBot) discusses the new article, Cyborg sociopolitical reconfigurations: Designing for speculative fabulation in learning.
Can ChatGPT Create a Thoughtful Lesson Plan?
In this post, Chris Clark and Cathryn van Kessel test ChatGTP’s ability to write a thoughtful lesson plan about MLK. They made ChatGTP resubmit the assignment quite a few times.
Philanthrocapitalism in Public Education, Blockchain Cradle-to-Career Surveillance, and Other Fresh New Horrors from the First Ever Tuesday Tech Talk
In this post, Marie reviews our first Monthly Tech Talk Discussion where we learned a lot about philanthrocapitalism, blockchain, and other new horrors in education from participant, Dr. Roxana Marachi.
ChatGPT and Good Intentions in Higher Ed
In this cross-post from Autumm Caines’ Is a Liminal Space blog, Autumm discusses “ChatGTP and Good Intentions in Higher Ed.”
Toward Research Futures in Year Two
In this post, Dan, Jacob, and Marie discuss the possibilities for collaboration and support as we research how students experience Civics of Technology curricula.
A Reflection on Year One of Civics of Tech
In this post, Marie, Dan, and Jacob reflect on year one of Civics of Tech.
Why Isn’t Technology and Teacher Education Talking More About Justice and Technology?
Marie Heath, Sumreen Asim, Natalie Milman, and Jessa Henderson discuss their recent (open access!) article, Confronting Tools of the Oppressor: Framing Just Technology Integration in Educational Technology and Teacher Education, which aims to pull back the curtain and draw attention to forms of coded inequity in teacher education and technology education.
Why We Wrote Power On!
Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis share why they wrote the graphic novel, Power On!, and their vision for working toward justice in computer science and society.
What can we learn from AI Chatbot answers to our technoskeptical questions?
In this post, Jacob and Dan use their human brain’s to discuss the limitations of ChatGPT’s AI.
Join Us for our January Book Club Discussion of the Computer Science Graphic Novel Power On!
Join us on Thursday, January 12th, @ 8:00 p.m. ET to discuss Power On!. Register on our events page for the Zoom link.
How Did We Get the Smartphone? Or, Understanding the Longer and Larger History of Technological Change
In this post, Scott Metzger digs into the longer and larger history of the smartphone.
Whither Twitter?
In this post, Dan muses on Twitter’s demise, whether to leave the platform, and why his local roller derby team helped him find answers.
A Classroom Activity Showing Twitter’s Blue Checks Were Flimsy Before Musk
In this blog, Marie and Dan discuss Musk’s disruption of Twitter’ blue check verification and share their tweet activity and media education approach that shows that verification was a problem even before this.
November Book Club, Viral Justice by Dr. Ruha Benjamin
Let’s grow the world we want during our November 17th book club as we discuss Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s book, Viral Justice!
What can speculative fiction teach us about technology?
In this blog post, Jacob ponders on how speculative fiction can help us think about human relationships with technology. Of course, he recommends some books.
Reflecting on Data, Power, and Pedagogy
Autumm Caines and Michelle Ciccone consider how visualizing surveillance data via DigiPower creates opportunities to learn about surveillance, privacy, and our own feelings of ambivalence, exhaustion, or despair around these topics.
Podcasts We Learn From
In this post, Marie and Dan share some of their favorite podcasts and episodes for critical tech. What are they missing?