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Heather 💙 🐸 💙 @featherfrodis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2025

FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

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Matt Oswalt @mattoswaltva.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Another new article out. The last part in a trilogy of what we’re getting horribly wrong when it comes to online course design. Abandon the search for best practices! Course designers at work: a critical case study of optimization in online course design rdcu.be/epaCt #EduSky #EdTech #eLearning

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The Journal of Applied Instructional Design 14(2) is now available, containing the proceedings of the 2024 AECT annual convention. jaid.edtechbooks.org/jaid_14_2 #EdTech #AcademicSky #EduSky #eLearningDesign #LearningSciences

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

They could have pulled a Weekend at Bernie’s for the entirety of Biden’s presidency and it still would have been better than what we have now.

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I guess the reason I'm not worried about #AI taking my job is that after 70 years of trying, the best we've done is an almost-sophisticated version of the Eliza chatbot. #EdTech #eLearning

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My latest email to my senators: a 🧵. Hey John, it's time for some tough love. Donald Trump doesn't respect you. To the extent he thinks of you at all, he thinks you're a sucker--so sure you're important, but in his mind nothing more than a little dog that rolls over to ask him to scratch your belly.

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

New publication: Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters. rdcu.be/ekuFN #EdTech #AcademicSky #eLearningDesign

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congratulations to the Trump administration on another historic first!

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Seems kinda like bragging about how many people you hit while drunk driving.

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I was prepared for the fascism from the new administration, but I don't think I was quite prepared for everyone else in a position of influence to be such complete cowards.

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Volume 14 issue 1 of the Journal of Applied Instructional Design has been published. Check it out here: jaid.edtechbooks.org/jaid_14_1 #EdTech #LearningDesign #AcademicSky

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Please consider attending the OTESSA-US: Research, Design, and Policy Colloquium 2025, to be held in Santa Fe, NM on June 5-6, 2025. More details at the link below! otessa.org/2025/santa-f... #EduSky #AcademicSky #EdTech #HigherEd

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Journal of Applied Instructional Design is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on the topic of practice-based scholarship. See the attached CfP for more details. #EdTech #LearningDesign #InstructionalDesign #AcademicSky

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Volume 13 issue 4 of the Journal of Applied Instructional Design is now live. This special issue covers Designing Extended Reality (XR) Environments and Experiences for Authentic Learning. jaid.edtechbooks.org/jaid_13_4 #EdTech #LearningDesign #AcademicSky #eLearningDesign #InstructionalDesign

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Reporter: Who gets credit for this? You or Trump? Biden: Is that a joke?

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/01/2025

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts." Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

How come when I search in Outlook it shows me emails from 2013 that don’t include any of the words I searched for? How come when I search for emails from a certain person it shows me other people who maybe mentioned that guy, but not anything from the guy themselves?

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

I have adopted the following policy on the use of generative Al systems, which is adapted from one originally written by Prof. Susannah Paletz.

There are two primary goals of this doctoral seminar. The first is to familiarize you with Science and Technology Studies as a literature, through its intellectual history and breadth of critical considerations. The second goal is to train you in the scholarly practices of reading large amounts of textual material quickly and effectively, synthesizing and discussing that material accurately and in detail, and then using the insights, methods, theories, and approaches of those texts in your own intellectual work. My expectation is that you will not use any generative artificial intelligence systems (like ChatGPT, Claude, etc) to complete your work in this class. Any use of Al-generated work to brainstorm, outline, write, edit, etc, your work will be considered an academic integrity violation. These systems are often inaccurate, are bad at summarizing complex materials, and relying on them will make your work worse and less interesting. The use of these programs does not serve your development as a thinker, writer, and scholar.

To quote Professor Andrew Perfors, "As a teacher, what I want to teach, and what I want people to practice doing, is the process of creation itself. I don't give a single goddamn flying fuck what ChatGPT thinks about the essay prompt. The purpose of having students write an essay is not to fill the world with yet more words on the topic of the essay: the point is to find out what my students think about the topic. Actually, the point is even deeper - it is to make them go through the process of figuring out for themselves what they think, and to wrestle with putting those thoughts into words so that they can clarify things to themselves and improve their ability to share those thoughts clearly. This process cannot be short-circuited by outsourcing it to Al; to do so removes the entire fucking point."
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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Every tech company in Silicon Valley this week.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/12/2024

OM NOM NOM

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Tom McLaughlin @tommclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Colin Farrell's transformation into the penguin is remarkable

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/12/2024

"I assumed he was looking for a wife of taste and sophistication, who was a dead ringer for Tippi Hedren; instead he wanted to marry a curtain-wearing religious fanatic who shouts every word she says." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-r...

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I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled

Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility, Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepe...

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atomly @atomly.com · 26/12/2024

one thing we don't talk about is that as everything is turned into an app we are increasingly giving control of our world and how we interact with it to a small group of engineers who don't really consider any of it in wider context and are just trying to push some code to meet their sprint deadline

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Ok, cool, so artificial general intelligence isn't anything that actually is intelligent? But is just something that makes a lot of money? Under capitalism I guess we shouldn't have expected anything else.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/12/2024

Everyone In Restaurant Jealous Of Toddler Who Gets To Wear Pajamas And Watch iPad theonion.com/everyone-in-...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it? ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The Twelve Days of Christmas loses its charm about a quarter of the way through the first verse.

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🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 23/12/2024

babies have had a free ride for too long like and repost if you agree

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

There are a lot of things I love about my job. But near the top has got to be the freedom to just take some time off right before Christmas, without worrying about whether I've saved up enough vacation hours. #AcademicSky

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Thinking that #EdTech or #AI will revolutionize, or reinvent, education seems like a pretty shallow idea of what a revolution actually is. The revolution I want is to force corrupt state legislators out of our schools. Then we’d see the power of education really unlocked. #AcademicSky

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Opinion | Elon Musk's brilliance starts with letting his lieutenants run the day-to-day of his most valuable properties, whether that's Linda Yaccarino (X), Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX), or Donald Trump (United States of America).

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"Maximizing shareholder value" has got to be about the stupidest idea a human being has ever come up with.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

every time I read a story about OpenAI I wonder what is the point of like, morals and ethics anymore

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Just to see what would happen, I asked ChatGPT to generate an assignment for my learning design class to demonstrate why GenAI doesn't learn in any meaningful sense. #EdTech #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Jason McDonald @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

YouTube just showed me a 30 second ad before my 15 second video.

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