Reposted by Tyler WattsBen Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality? 2136791123
Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@linkletter.org congrats to you and all the other OEGlobal Award shortlisters! Inspired by your work! awards.oeglobal.org/2026-shortli...awards.oeglobal.org2026 Shortlist of Finalists – Open Education Awards for Excellence 130
Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Child: walking with water bottle clanging rhythmically. Me: you’re going to love the opening track for Radiohead’s 2001 album Amnesiac. 110
Reposted by Tyler WattsCivics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Our 2026 Conference schedule has been posted! You won't want to miss these excellent sessions. New research, lessons to share, workshops, and more! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conferencecivicsoftechnology.org2026 Conference — Civics of Technology 1167
Reposted by Tyler WattsIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it! 41175384
Reposted by Tyler WattsJeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Gross. This just appeared on our LMS (Canvas) today. After only a couple of hours, it disappeared. Anyone else notice it at their institution? Looks like they're still trying to push their AI tools but couching them in some "you're still in control" language. 241
Reposted by Tyler WattsDr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... 11899462
Reposted by Tyler WattsCivics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Want to present at our 2026 conference? You've got two weeks to put a proposal forward! Share your research, your instructional approaches, proposal a panel, or something else that you think would interest our audience. forms.gle/rKEwypkdJpHL...forms.gleSession Proposal Form: 2026 Civics of Technology ConferencePlease use this form to submit your session proposal. Proposals are due June 14. 0118
Reposted by Tyler WattsJathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 16/05/2026“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usualbloodinthemachine.comAI as the new avatar of American capitalismWhy "AI populism" is just "populism" 217239
Reposted by Tyler Wattslibrarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space” 2630228
Reposted by Tyler WattsMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/04/2026Q: Why weren’t faculty consulted? A: On the contrary, Skynet was trained on an extensive archive of pirated humanities articles—hence its misanthropy, overuse of the em dash, and proclivity for always already predictively adding “already” after “always.”buff.lyFrequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration“With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ... 19725
Reposted by Tyler WattsCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible. Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:civicsoftechnology.orgIntroducing Middle School Students to "The Secret Ghost Workers of 'Artificial Intelligence'" — Civics of TechnologyUpcoming Book Clubs: We’re reading The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms our Kids’ Learning - And How to Help Them Thrive Again by Jared Cooney Horvath. Join us on Wednesday, Ap... 28944
Reposted by Tyler WattsRacially-Just, Inclusive and Open STEM Education @rioscommunity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026**Implementing Alternative Grading** The Center for Grading Reform and the RIOS Institute are hosting a six-week Learning Community on alternative grading. Participants will apply a structured approach in a course. Prior familiarity and a target course required. Starts May 5: bit.ly/48J4sMFbit.lyRIOS Learning Community Application: Implementing Alternative GradingThe Center for Grading Reform, in partnership with the RIOS Institute, is pleased to sponsor a Learning Community on Implementing Alternative Grading for post-secondary faculty. In this six week… 043
Reposted by Tyler WattsMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/04/2026"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"buff.lyThe Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea... 29323
Reposted by Tyler WattsDrew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 13/04/2026The RIOS Institute @rioscommunity.bsky.social is sponsoring a learning community on Alternative Grading, beginning May 5 (and ending right before @thegradingconference.com). Join me and @melanielenahan.bsky.social for a weekly community where you design an alt grading scheme for your upcoming class.qubeshub.orgQUBES - Implementing Alternative Grading - A RIOS Learning CommunityQUBES Hub - The Power of Biology, Math, and Community 054
Reposted by Tyler WattsYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Joep Schuurkes On the Acceptance of GenAI 🙏 smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on... 13121
Reposted by Tyler WattsHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/04/2026When you see one set of footprints, that’s because a chatbot is non-corporeal.indy100.comArtificial intelligence Jesus chatbot sparks debate over future of faithFor some evangelical Christians, a personal relationship with Jesus is central to their faith. Now, a tech company called Just Like Me is offering to take that concept to an unprecedented level, allowing users to engage in video calls with an artificial intelligence-generated avatar of Jesus for $1.... 7646581
Reposted by Tyler WattsMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026“By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept …” 05623
Reposted by Tyler WattsCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026GenAI is a fascist project.404media.co‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book BanningGroups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned. 01410
Reposted by Tyler WattsJeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Excited to share this call for proposals to contribute to a new open-access book on the EdTechBooks platform on "Public Scholarship in Education." The editors are looking for "cases of educational researchers engaged in public scholarship, or sharing their research in open and accessible ways."tiny.utk.edupublic-scholarship-cfp.pdf 095
Reposted by Tyler WattsKhakionion (8MB) (for PlayStation®2) @khakionion.bsky.social · 23/03/2026there is no such thing as a low-value education task 16218
Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Sharing our new open access text on transformative care with writings about care as a disruptive force that challenges the status quo. edtechbooks.org/transformati... 031
Reposted by Tyler WattsAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/09/2025I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question 20884281
Reposted by Tyler WattsCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Waiting for the pitch from tech bros that GenAI is going to save teachers time to focus on what really matters: their side jobs. 1247
Reposted by Tyler WattsTrip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 28/02/2026Individual solutions won't stop systemic problems, but talking to the children in your life about the myriad dangers of AI is now a necessary part of being a responsible adult. 315054
Reposted by Tyler WattsKelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those. 503136916
Reposted by Tyler WattsDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots! 144108762755
Reposted by Tyler WattsPeter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I finished writing it all up: Generative AI ∉ (Teaching ∪ Learning). I'm going to keep using this as a reference, incomplete as it is www.peter-keep.com/2026-02-06-g...peter-keep.comGenerative AI ∉ (Teaching ∪ Learning)There are no ethical use cases for generative AI in higher education 54820
Reposted by Tyler WattsAbigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again. 188103102660
Reposted by Tyler WattsBr. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026To all those Catholics still saying "America first," I would like to remind you that the official teaching of the Catholic Church is "the poor first." And neither Christ nor the Church are bound by borders. 48818
Reposted by Tyler WattsTech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 15/12/2025🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person... 89926541
Reposted by Tyler Watts𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 06/12/2025A long read but Mike Lewis has something here in this analytical framework drawing from Lévi-Strauss. Recommended. "John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts" wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...wherepeteris.comBricolage and the Battle for the Catholic ImaginationCatholicism has always possessed a vivid symbolic imagination. The Church embraces a sacramental worldview, filled with signs and mysteries — miracles, apparitions, relics, saints, and sacred gestures... 053
Reposted by Tyler WattsMike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/12/2025Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.orgresonantcomputing.orgThe Resonant Computing ManifestoTechnology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing. 37917326
Reposted by Tyler WattsSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class. 4698225
Reposted by Tyler WattsHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it. 13920361
Reposted by Tyler WattsJournal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy @jitp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Have you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox! 11116
Reposted by Tyler WattsCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025OpenAI is a social arsonist - as Dr. Chris Gilliard reminds us - and the company's attempts to capture education with its "free" version of ChatGPT for teachers should, IMO, be met with vocal resistance and refusal if we as educators are to care for our students, their communities, and our planet. 0309
Reposted by Tyler WattsKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Oh hey, I found the war on christmas 401855795
Tyler Watts @tylerwatts.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Excited to dive into "Inclusive Online Teaching" by Katherine McAlvage & Nadia Jaramillo Cherrez and grateful that the authors & Oregon State made it open access! open.oregonstate.education/teachingonli...open.oregonstate.educationInclusive Teaching Online – Open Textbook<em>Inclusive Teaching Online</em> addresses the complexities of teaching diverse and nontraditional adult students in asynchronous online environments. Centered in evidence-based approaches for creat... 110
Reposted by Tyler WattsLeigh Graves Wolf @gravesle.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Congrats to Drs. Rebecca M. Reese & Amy Lomellini for putting this OPEN resource out into the world! It was an honour to write the prologue for this fantastic & much needed text. Advancing Accessibility: Practical Strategies for Instructional Designers and Educators edtechbooks.org/accessibilityedtechbooks.orgEdTech Books 062
Reposted by Tyler WattsJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this. 59517
Reposted by Tyler WattsEnilda Romero-Hall @eromerohall.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Sneak Preview of “Learning Designers in Context” Over the last few weeks, I have re-read the proofs of my forthcoming book "Learning Designers in Contexts" so many times that I honestly I feel I could recite some of the chapters. Due to some communication issues, the release date has been pushed…enildaromero.comSneak Preview of “Learning Designers in Context”Over the last few weeks, I have re-read the proofs of my forthcoming book "Learning Designers in Contexts" so many times that I honestly I feel I could recite some of the chapters. Due to some communication issues, the release date has been pushed back a bit. It is all part of the process or at least that is what I tell myself. 131
Reposted by Tyler WattsEmily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Only one week left to apply for the Center for Grading Reform's Alternative Grading Institute! This two-day, hands-on, virtual experience offers opportunities to connect grading with your values and design an alt grading system for one of your courses. www.centerforgradingreform.org/alternative-...centerforgradingreform.orgAlternative Grading Institute 197
Reposted by Tyler WattsThe Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_arttheoatmeal.comA cartoonist's review of AI art - The OatmealThis is a comic about AI art. 571116537
Reposted by Tyler WattsKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2025My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂chronicle.comAdvice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good ReasonsWhy higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work. 21399154
Reposted by Tyler WattsGrow Beyond Grades @growbeyondgrades.org · 19/09/2025Our second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉 Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance. Read and share! growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...growbeyondgrades.orgThe Degrading Scale — Grow Beyond GradesIn her essay, Sharlyn Barrett recalls how the pursuit of perfection—whether on a scale or on a report card—stripped joy from both learning and life, and how messages about perfection left her exhauste... 054