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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That... is the hidden curriculum there, yes :)

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It was the majority opinion in that group at least :)

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I think AI has helped, certainly. But I remember having this same conversation with a group of engineering students about Chegg. "i've just accepted that I can't get higher than a B+ and actually learn the material - I'd have to cheat like everyone else to get an A"

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

for sure. this model is very much meant to be for first steps, i can see that as a broader part of good pedagogy

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm having trouble with it making through university protections... davecormier.com/edblog/2026/... is that working?

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A human centered model for discussing AI in assessment – Dave’s Educational Blog

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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 · 04/03/2026

I've always felt that we gave it away to publishers. But now there's the risk of giving it away in Open work as well. But I think it extends to all places where AI erases the individual, where it erases context. (not that it always does, just where it does)

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I heard a beautiful description of creating an Open Textbook at an event at TRU yesterday. "I am the result of all the conversations I've had with people and all the people who've taught me, i bring that story, my story of biology to the textbook writing" juxtaposed to AI written textbooks.

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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

You don't even have my email address.

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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 · 22/02/2025

I think it depends on where you're starting from. I'm less disposed to be sympathetic to a theory that supports a lot of structure in the classroom.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It’s an interesting paper. I appreciate the history as well as the perspective.

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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 · 09/02/2025

No idea what it’s named, it’s just the one behind the residence :)

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

Or even makes us more likely to go looking for 'the way things are done' from an authority, rather than thinking our way through issues and maintaining their existing complexity. That's probably too far... but it's still what i'm wondering this morning.

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

Like somehow thinking that there is a reason, somewhere in the ether, for spellings that clearly don't make sense, makes us more susceptible to other things that don't make sense because someone convinces us "that just the way things are"

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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 can only speak to meeting one of your children, but can say I found the experience delightful

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

If I'm saying that I want students to find their own resources on the web, in an effort to teach them good practices for their future needs, I'm making the course harder and requiring more literacies for them to get through the process. I'm ok with that. But I'm trying to model it.

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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

I'm holding onto it with my fingertips.

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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 · 05/12/2024

That's an adorable child right there.

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Dave Cormier @davecormier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

That does feel like a bit of an oversight :P

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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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