'Power demand is growing as electricity-hungry data centers pop up to serve everything from email to artificial intelligence...[F]aced with so much demand, utilities are falling back on their old standby, fossil fuels.' npr.org/2024/04/14/124…

Reading Ruha Benjamin's new book, 'Imagination: A Manifesto' & appreciate she pointed us toward 'Technology and Ethos' (1969) where Amiri Baraka rejects the tech of white, Western patriarchy &—in this selection—re-imagines the typewriter: soulsista.com/titanic/baraka…

What can technology be?

A helpful resource from the Public Interest Policy Center for educators - and caregivers too - to 'quickly find big problems in privacy policies that would likely restrict the [ed-tech] tool from being used with students.'

ht: Mark Keierleber

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“But even more concerning, especially for some students who spoke with The Markup, are blocks against sex education, abortion information, and resources for LGBTQ+ teens—including suicide prevention.” #DigitalRedlining

The Spring 2024 Logic(s) Speakers Series, a ten part series of virtual public events running every Wednesday from April 3rd to June 5th, this series will center transnational voices and perspectives essential to thinking critically about technology.

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Waiting for my plane after a short-and-sweet #AERA2024 and shout-out to all the other grad student caregivers who presented work, spent time with amazing folx, wrote 18.39 sentences of their dissertation proposal, and fit in a good morning/night call with their kids. We got this!

AI is being used to identify students at risk of failing to graduate and require potentially funding There is no way to meaningfully evaluate whether the model really identifies the students with the highest levels of need

#AIinEducation #data #Justice
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Exclusive: Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows.

time.com/6966102/google…

Google claims the course comes at no cost to educators, but furthering Big Tech's capture of education while expanding the AI empire's power and its reliance on dehumanizing labor practices and burgeoning environmental harms are enormous costs for a bot-generated lesson plan.

Young people rightfully protesting and chanting, 'Fuck the algorithm!' is, sadly, evergreen.

One of the best parts of #AERA2024 so far was bumping into Lynne Zummo on the train platform and getting caught up on the ride to the convention center, a serendipitous connection that has me reflecting that not all platforms are so bad lol.

Hoping there’s an ed-tech chapter (or three)!

So excited to share 'Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization' — new open-access article from me, Allie Thrall, Julian Quiros, & Ezekiel Dixon-Román. Out now in RRQ!

ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

another really critical #AERA2024 session. timely and pertinent to ongoing discussions about AI and education.

Tomorrow at #AERA2024 !