Recent coverage of South Africa has been a nightmare. An American editor called me to say the "world's concluded South Africa is 'over'"--"falling apart" (NYT), "in ruins" (New Yorker), "destroyed" (UK Sunday Times). Would I write about the end of South Africa? she asked.

Love seeing the work my past students do! alutas-theory.itch.io/eat-a-bitch ALUTA NULL 🪰

"“One of the arguments people like to make is that you can’t go back on particular technologies... “That’s patently untrue. No one would look at asbestos and say, ‘Well, you can’t outlaw chemistry.’ But they look at facial recognition and say, ‘You can’t outlaw math.' ”

Start by asking yourself if the role of teachers is to encourage and support student learning or to police student learning. If we can agree the (primary) role of teachers is to encourage and support learning, it becomes much easier to adapt policies, assignments, and assessment.

I read so much about decentring myself. Then my knee jerk reaction is still to immediately go ‘how can I’. All about me. But I want to learn, I want to listen to and respect other voices. But am I not just passing the labour on to others?

Blown away by ALUTA NULL 🪰 exhibition. Just an amazing, thoughtful, gift of an experience

Yeeei! Very excited to see a talk on critical code at DevConf 😻 The brilliant hanli geyser introducing humanities to the devs

"Code is the textual, executable body of work that expresses computational thinking through syntax of a programming language" hanli geyser

I was “in the newspapers as a youth activist” level of O-U-T as a queer student at 16yo in 1991. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the objections we now see about trans youth was made about me, and I am FURIOUS at all the gays and lesbians my age who are falling for this now. To them:

I was in the process of being hired (part-time) at a Scandinavian university towards the end of last year & experienced one of the most distressing & draining cases of racism (will not name the university, department or individuals to protect those that fought for me) thread 1/

#ZATechRadio at DevConf

A rockstar on the stage! Veliswa_Boya🥑🇿🇦 talking chaos engineering and resilient architecture. #Appdev #DevConf Amazon Web Services

Such a thought-provoking talk hanli geyser. Reminds me of a Dr. Dr. Joy Buolamwini ted talk "How I'm fighting bias in algorithms" #DevConf #offerzenswag

Some serious decolonisation food for thought listening to hanli geyser talk on critical code literacies #devconf DevConf

So triggered (software performance has been a *thing* recently) but flip, mike geyser ⟨ 🐘 ⁄ ⟩, that was excellent. Sometimes a step back to the theory of approach is exactly what's needed.#DevConf DevConf

"when people say X [where X is efficiency, accuracy, security etc] overrides potential harms to minoritiezed people", all I hear is "we give 0 damn about minoritiezed people, in fact we despise them"

chatgpt will never replicate the charm and syntax of an undergraduate paper where the student has neither been to class nor read more than the abstract of a paper there's a magic nothingness that they're able to conjure with sheer grit and desperation that a.i. could never

Call for Expressions of Interest - we are inviting chapter proposals for a book titled "Data poor: Mapping data inequalities and its impact on student support and success" with Sharon Slade and Mohammad Khalil . #learninganalytics Details to be found at - …anceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/cal…