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Shea Smith

@qsprn.bsky.social
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letterpress enthusiast | doctoral candidate • researching the datafication & platformization of education • quantum sufficit, pro re nata

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@dansinker.com out here saying what we’re all feeling. Here’s a gem of his from last year. Thanks, friend. #letterpress
Print with Dan Sinker quote: Write it down. I mean that literally. Get a pen get a notebook use your hands. There is something visceral about using your hands and nobody can delete ink on paper with a keystroke. Write it down.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No need to regulate, right, Trump and Republicans? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I don’t think that Alpha deserves attention because of what it will do to education in any direct way. It deserves our attention because of the way that it raises and provides at least one set of answers to deep questions about what schooling is for,” writes @jbpleasa.bsky.social.
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Pay Attention to Alpha Schools — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Library Community: We’re building a CoT community for those involved with or interested in libraries. Andrea Baer is leading this effort and if you’re interested...
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Shea Smith @qsprn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” –Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many "existing peer-reviewed studies that say AI is an effective learning tool are based on flawed methodologies and analyses that rely on misapplied, miscalculated or misinterpreted statistics." Good to see the severe limits of research on AI in education covered in IHE here.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
me everytime i see this design
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Tiny Stonehenge Descending with Nigel Tufnel
ALT: Tiny Stonehenge Descending with Nigel Tufnel
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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New blog post - a reminder that more 'digital literacy' is very rarely the answer to any of the problems of the digital age ... but that critical digital literacy is definitely something worth encouraging! criticaledtech.com/2026/09/10/d...
digital literacy needs to be called out for what it is – a distraction, a smokescreen, a disingenuous gesture towards empowering people in the digital age. Instead, much more attention needs to be paid to the idea of critical digital literacy – an approach that genuinely sets out to help people actively question, scrutinise, challenge and resist the worse aspects of the tech that they are presented with … and actively engage with the idea of other technologies.
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Andy Liddell @andyliddell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’ve been devouring my copy of @natashanyt.bsky.social’s Coding Kids, out today. However bad you think the tech takeover of public schools is, it’s been going on longer and has penetrated more deeply than you can likely imagine. Get your copy here 👇🏻
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Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools
Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and Apple. Many educators and parents ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
imagine being a fitness guy for the last 10 years — tracking macros, avoiding seed oils, and strength training every day so you will live longer — only for AI to end all of humanity by 2030
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/09/2026
"Google Translate can now render your college administrator’s opaque prose into plain (if terrifying) English." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fac...
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Faculty, Rejoice: Gmail Can Now Translate “Deanspeak”
“Google Translate can now render your college administrator’s opaque prose into plain (if terrifying) English.” 8/27/25 9/2/26
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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are now 3 years on from the smartphone bans in Australian government schools .... looks like politicians are soon going to have to look for reasons *other* than digital technologies to blame for falls in PISA scores! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia’s classroom disruption among worst in world, prompting calls for ‘digital detox’
Public school students are the equivalent of two and a half years behind their independent peers, as global report shows decline in reading and maths
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026
Everyone's seen how the most powerful tycoons in Silicon Valley have manipulated politics (and society) to their will. But we're stuck thinking of them as "VCs". They're not. They evolved years ago into something far worse, which we could consider Cancer Capitalists: www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...
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VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 25/08/2026
New Utah law protects student privacy after BYU research found K-12 apps were collecting and sharing data
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New Utah law protects student privacy after BYU research found K-12 apps were collecting and sharing data
Sharman Gill reports: …  BYU research finds that EdTech vendors don’t always meet their student privacy obligations; that research has led to new Utah legislation that tightens up the privacy issues. In an August 2025 investigation report prepared for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE), BYU information systems professors Mark Keith and Justin Giboney found major... Source
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Shea Smith @qsprn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Six figures worth of legal fees to defend the charge of plagiarism. TurnItIn is a menace. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Adelphi Student Wins AI Plagiarism Lawsuit
An Adelphi University student who was accused of using artificial intelligence on an assignment has won a lawsuit against the institution, Newsday reported, with a federal judge ruling that the findin...
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'm co-author on a new article about #edtech & #assetization: "EdTech futures: time, value and the promise of digital disruption in higher education" w/ Claire Murray, Sam Sellar + @jkom.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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EdTech futures: time, value and the promise of digital disruption in higher education
The growth of the Education Technology (EdTech) sector in recent years has been accompanied by predictions that new digital platforms will disrupt HE. However, there remains a disjuncture between p...
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Shea Smith @qsprn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Love this print (and sentiment) by @kennedyprints.bsky.social
Letterpress print resting on a type cabinet drawer that reads “Make your house clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy”
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
*THIS* should be the driving force behind the parental backlash to ed tech, not "screen time." I am really eager to read @natashanyt.bsky.social 's book.
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How Big Tech Captured American Schools (Gift Article)
Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
saying the quiet part out loud: they want material “fed to” children
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 16/08/2026
Libraries remain an essential service in the digital age and as generative AI makes information online less reliable. @parismarx.com spoke to Hannah Cyrus & @flexlibris.bsky.social about how libraries are helping patrons gain a critical view on tech and AI. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A common critical complaint about AI in education is it's not supported by evidence. However, evidence *is* being produced, just not by the normal standards, through conventional methods, or by independent evaluators. New post on evidence experiments codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/e...
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Evidence experimentation in AI evaluation in education
Photo by Bozhin Karaivanov on Unsplash The introduction of generative AI into school settings remains highly controversial almost four years after the launch of ChatGPT. One source of growing publi…
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/07/2026
One month ago today. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
June 29, 2026 – The Trump administration agreed to pay Duke Energy $129 million to abandon plans for an offshore wind farm off the coast of North Carolina. It was the fourth time the administration had paid a company to surrender an offshore wind lease, bringing its total spending to more than $2.5 billion to stop offshore wind development.
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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why are academics using GenAI to write articles, grade assignments, compose emails and a lot of other tasks that they would/should otherwise be doing themselves? A brief summary of our anonymous survey of over 200 academics' 'grey uses' of GenAI ... researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a...
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Academic (mis)uses of GenAI
This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …
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Shea Smith @qsprn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Favorite glyph #ampersand
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Shea Smith @qsprn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Looking forward to this series.
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Shea Smith @qsprn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Modern acronyms for old world tools. Wood cuts by Moore Wood Type.
Two letterpress prints on a galvanized steel tabletop, with the wood cuts next to them. The print at the top of the image, on a blue notecard reads “GTFO” and the print, in green at the bottom of the image reads “STFU”.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/07/2026
The Education Department has long collected civil rights data about things like bullying, harassment and disability services in schools, but it hasn't made the latest information public.
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Federal civil rights data holds schools accountable. Under Trump, it's 6 months late
The Education Department has long collected civil rights data about things like bullying, harassment and disability services in schools, but it hasn't made the latest information public.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026
“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”
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What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"
Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here’s the print.
Print showing the combo of window and plant cut forms.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Research measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...
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The problem with evidence production on AI in education
Photo by Camille Villanueva on Unsplash The research field of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) has a long history of investigating the effects of AI on learning and other educational out…
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Made a window for a print out of borders cast on a Linotype, then filled it with plants. #letterpress
Close up of metal type ornaments and Linotype border slides that together make up a print meant to resemble a window with plants.
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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
ICYMI - The AI Resist List - nine different ways (and lots of practical examples) of how you can contribute to the fight against AI ... airesistlist.org
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The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
he promised to leave if he lost, where’s the clock on that
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...
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Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Fabricating Edtech Futures keynote talk by @benpatrickwill.bsky.social starting now at #edtech26 - learn more about Ben’s work on codeactsineducation.wordpress.com and on any good journal.
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Code Acts in Education explores how code, and the software algorithms and digital data practices it enables, are reshaping education in schools and universities. This site features updates from res…
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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Is Ed-Tech Falling Out of Favour? ... new blog post: with the backlash against digital technology in schools gaining momentum, how can public faith be restored in ed-tech? criticaledtech.com/2026/05/10/i...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"The list of platforms that now mediate the basic functions of education ... is almost comically long ... most schools are running 10–15 different EdTech products that all promise efficiency, but in reality create confusion, frustration, and complicate what was once much simpler." 🎯
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Why has Khan consistently failed to make good on his promises? Perhaps it's because he fundamentally misunderstands learning (and teaching). Punya Mishra explains in today's newsletter: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/why-sal...
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Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Ghosts in the Machine AI Documentary Screening : Join our Civics of Tech community for an online screening of the new documentary, Ghosts in the Machine on Thu...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
MAGA: it’s insane that the UK is indicting people for social media posts Also MAGA: yay Comey got indicted for a social media posts! FAFO!!
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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Recommended weekend listening: Silicon Valley's vision for schools is dreary and dystopian. It's also fueling a massive backlash against all things edtech soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
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#217 Silicon Valley’s Dystopian Vision for Schools
As Silicon Valley’s tentacles reach ever more deeply into the nation’s public schools, a provocative new book sounds an emphatic “stop”! We talk to Tim Scott, author of Schooling for Silicon Valley, a
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Spotted in one of my favorite bathrooms (in a print shop). A little pep talk for my fellow inky friends.
Print featuring Dickens quote: The Printer. Without him, tyrants and humbugs in all countries would have their own way. He is a friend of intelligence and thought, a friend of liberty, of freedom, of law, indeed, the friend of every man who is a friend of order. Of all inventions, of all discoveries in science and art, of all the great results in the wonderful progress of mechanical energy and skill, the printers is the only product of civilization necessary to the existence of free men.
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Shea Smith @qsprn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
How many times will this guy attempt to “reinvent” education?
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Serial Failure Sal Khan Wants to Take Over Higher Education
And anyone who cares about human-centered education should hope he fails.
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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 Anastasia Gouseti and Patricia Shaw ⬇️ investigate how digital platforms are adopted in two secondary schools in England and how they change the way schooling is done. Read the article here: lnkd.in/gX8bT58Z
The use of digital platforms in education has rapidly proliferated with schools adopting a range of tools to support them with everyday administrative, pedagogical, and communicative functions. This has resulted in intense forms of platformised education and the reshaping of compulsory schooling in multiple ways. Digital platform use is seen to create a range of opportunities, but it also raises urgent questions about how platformisation is changing schooling. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study, this paper explores how platformisation is experienced by school leaders, teachers, students, and parents in two secondary schools in England. While the streamlining of administrative and teaching and learning operations, organisational effectiveness and the ease of communication appear to be valued, our findings show how school platformisation can also normalise monitoring and surveillance, contribute to the professionalisation of parenting, resulting in digital exclusion, and impacting teachers’ digital wellbeing. This paper provides valuable empirical insights on how schooling has become entangled with platformisation in complex ways and the implications this has for teachers, students, and parents. It contributes to the growing body of research in the field of platform studies and offers critical accounts that can inform future policymaking, research, and practice.
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