iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

davecormier.com/edblog/2026/... I do not think that the right question about what we need to do for our education system has the acronym AI in it. A human centered model for discussing AI in assessment.

It's a VENN diagram. The top left circle of the diagram is yellow an the question "did they do it?" is in that circle. The top right circle is blue and has the question "Have they learned?" in it. The joint box between the top left circle and the top right circle has "quality assurance" in it. The bottom circle of the venn diagram is green and has the question "are we helping" in it. The connecting space between the top right circle and the bottom right circle says "good assessment". The overlap between the top left circle and the bottom circle says "student enagement" The middle, where all three circles overlap says Human centered assessment. It has a title on the bottom left "a human centered model for discussion AI in Assessment" and says Dave cormier CC by 2026

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've been saying queen sacrifice today, butchering @edufuturist.bsky.social 's conception of cutting high value academic departments. I was suggesting that giving up the creation of content for our courses to AI is the same kind of sacrifice. We lose our voice and our sense of story.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I recognize that it isn't possible... but I'd love a filter that stopped me from receiving any AI generated image or video. Just blocked the post.

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"...part of the crisis might very well be the response that people have had to AI, but no, I don’t think AI is the problem. I think the crisis is 25 years in the making and AI is the lens through which can finally see the problem for what it is."

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

What is the word for things that are both embarrassing and exciting at the same time? As I head off for a short vacation, I, for the first time, am leaving behind a totally empty inbox.

This is an image that has the microsoft icon for inbox and the text "all done for the day. Enjoy your empty inbox" on it over a white background.

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

excited to be back in Inverness to share my research on belonging & place via the LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies series. open online presentation, tomorrow June 10: 3-4pm Scotland time, 10-11am EDT for those playing along at home :) ALL WELCOME - sign up here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/learning-...

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LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies - Pedagogies of place: Exploring digital and cultural belonging and not-belonging

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

@downes.bsky.social I'm watching stuff on your presentation and wondering if i can sneak in!

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

how we talk about digital practices in education. a caveat, a relic, a reckoning, and a rant walk into a bar... thinking aloud. how do YOUR experiences of digital practice/discourse align? with so much appreciation to Donna Haraway & Ursula Franklin. bonstewart.com/belonging/po... #blogging4life

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findings 3a: how we talk about digital practices in education – the belonging project

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I heard rumour that this book review might be coming out. I can't say that there has been anything else about writing this book that had me more concerned than how this might go. I really, really hope he liked it. You can read it with me :) www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...

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View of Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the Curriculum, by Dave Cormier (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The hardest thing about living three hours ahead of where I work is not sending text messages to @abject.ca at 6am Pacific time when I see something cool.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Research findings that are fun to read. Imagine.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'm presenting at TRU in 75 minutes - "One vision for thinking about Open Learning in 2025" #OEweek25 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just watched "drive back home" www.imdb.com/title/tt2677... It's a story, from 1970, about a good old boy from Northern New Brunswick who has to go to Toronto to get his gay brother from jail. It's amazing.

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Drive Back Home (2024) ⭐ 8.2 | Drama

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I was today years old when I found out that Warren Zevon's song "Excitable Boy" is the story of the narrator from The Everly Brother's "Wake Up Little Susie." I mean. That's what the Wikipedia article seems to be saying. And Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...

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Warren Zevon - Wikipedia

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This was a fun early morning read. "A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... "Conceptualising teaching as entrapment, CA is expressly and self-consciously a ‘pedagogy of confinement’"

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Walking in to the office this morning listening to history lectures. I'm now wondering if blindly accepting 15th century spellings for words affects the way English language speakers react to the expression "that's just the way it is". see: Knight, Gnat, enough, etc...

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

as the tariffs loom, i managed to process out loud (sorta) "reading 20+ books about Scottish history this past year makes me wary of assuming that the historical distinctions of a nation perched just above an Empire can be solid things, forever." bonstewart.com/belonging/po...

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beyond here there be dragons

I haven’t been able to write since US election day. I live in Canada…admittedly, a four-minute drive from the tunnel to Detroit, but still. I am writing about a university in Scotland. These are all d...

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I'm starting to think about how I can talk about Open Learning/Education at my new job. I definitely think that one half of that is "widening participation". Things like PLAR, ZTCs lowered barriers for entry. the other half, open practices?Some of those practices work against widening participation

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Four weeks in, still inbox zero(ish). First time in my life I've ever made it this far. Thanks to all of your who have encouraged it over the years.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This really beautiful and thoughtful review of my book came out yesterday. It’s by @brennacgray.bsky.social who works at TRU. Not with me, but still. A week in, feeling good about this place. And thanks to Brenna…a year on, feeling good about the book. journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.p...

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View of Book Review of "Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community is the Curriculum"

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A new adventure begins. First day on site at TRU. Bags got lost en route, but my enthusiasm has not. Wish me luck :)

Picture of TRU. Some buildings in the foreground. Snow covered hills in the background. Just before dawn

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Looking forward to @davecormier.bsky.social coming to work at TRU. @pwmartin.bsky.social is leaving some big shoes to fill, but Dave is amazing and is going to do great work.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hallo new peeps! I'm Dave Cormier. I alternate between talking about education and talking about my kittens at the moment. I wrote a book this year called "Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community is the Curriculum" that talks about learning and living with so much going on.

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

good morning from Pippa the fierce yet adorable

black kitten with wide eyes and nails fully outstretched climbs a couch

black kitten yawns showing all her teefs

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Am trying to finish up my Comps in my PhD program (yes, I'm still trying to get that done) and have noticed that I currently don't have a citation that starts with A. Anyway, it's bothering me. Am talking about uncertainty. Anyone have a recommendation? At all?

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I wonder how many young people, right now, have been asked to 'go explore' GenAI (in academic, in corporations etc...) who don't actually understand the field/business context that they are being asked to do the research in.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Anyone have good examples of peer reviewed GenAI environmental impacts?

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Resource on the impact of GenAI on the climate. pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... Note: it's not good. At all.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Clarence and Pippa. They either nap or maraud. There is no in between.

Grey cat and black cat sleeping on a couch

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Mandatory post talking about bluesky on bluesky. The blocklist phenomenon is interesting. I followed along the first time i saw it and now its everywhere. Are you guys blocklisting?

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I've gotten to participate in both the #shrugcon and one of the follow up meetings and both were fantastic. I highly recommend it. #cdnpse

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I want to introduce you to #ShrugCon. It's about uncertainty. It's a series of discussions and probably a fledgling community. uncertaintycommunity.com We are all, in some way, interested in how we think about uncertainty as part of the learning process.

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Uncertainty/Community – Exploring uncertainty in teaching and learning. A research project housed at the University of Windsor.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I have a shoulder kitten. I’m quite fond of it.

Picture of a grey kitten sitting on an old man’s shoulder

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Currently playing… (do we post record selections on Bluesky?)

Desire by bob dylan. A record cover in front of a record player

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I have said the words ‘genai is just a symptom of a wider change that we have mostly not adapted to’ about a hundred times and never written it down. It probably needs a few disclaimers now that I see it in print. Gonna try and get to that today.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

These are the vibes around here lately

Two cats, one black one grey on a grey couch

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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

We had a great time at @davecormier.bsky.social 's mini #shrugcon yesterday, thinking about uncertainty, talking about digital confidence - see our scoping review below - and chatting with fascinating people. And, perhaps most importantly, finding out how to make a tiny zine!

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Searching for a shared understanding of digital confidence in a tertiary context: a scoping review | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

So… we’re doing another #shrugcon on the 7th. Lately my uncertainty thoughts have moved to assignment design. How do we support our students to choose to confront uncertainty rather than just get an answer from GenAI?

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Doing some last minute tweeking to a talk on Personal Learning communities I'm doing on Tuesday and came across this gem from @nancyw.bsky.social from a 'few' years ago. fullcirc.com/wp/community... about different members you'll find in a community. So smart.

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Community Member Roles and Types

Full Circle is the consulting practice of Nancy White and a network of independent professionals who provide a range of services individually and collectively for clients in the community, non-profit...

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

The high end skills that are needed through this Time of GenAI are the SAME ones we needed 3 years ago, plus a few technical skills. These skills replace other skills (search/web research) that we weren't thinking of as 'workforce' skills before.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I just read another 'GenAI litearcies' post and I'm still not convinced. NotebookLM (etc) are good ways of automatically crunching texts, but I don't need a 'literacy' to do that - i just need fingers. The literacy comes from choosing texts and evaluating the results... which i had to do before.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

"I had never noticed how the word belonging has ‘longing’ in it, hidden in plain sight."

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