Book recc via #CivicsOfTechnology #CivicsOfTech25 #COT2025 keynote chat: Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking our Digital Futures by Neil Selwyn
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Degrowth-Radically-Rethinking-Futures-ebook/dp/B0FJHZSB7M/
Back in 2015 I shared a TEDx talk on “Digital Citizenship in the Surveillance State” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJnyI4aypw
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #BigTech #privacy #surveillance #CivicsOfTechnology #CivicsOfTech25 #COT2025
Book recc via #CivicsOfTechnology #CivicsOfTech25 #COT2025 keynote chat: “More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Adam Becker, 2025)
https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/more-everything-forever
Co-create with students reflective spaces—such as journaling or discussion circles—where they can safely explore their emotional responses to digital experiences
In collaboration with students, design ethical scenarios drawn from students' actual tech use
Partner with students in authentic media analysis activities that explicitly address both cognitive and emotional dimensions
https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/thriving-in-a-tech-driven-world
Civics of Tech Announcements Next Tech Talk on May 6th: Join us for our monthly tech talk on Tuesday, May 6 from 8:00-9:00 PM EST (GMT-5). Join an informal conversation about events, issues, articles, problems, and whatever else is on your mind. Use this link to register . AERA Meetup:
My 1st time to join the #CivicsOfTechnology monthly “Tech Talk” Zoom (1st Tuesday of each month)
https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
h/t #DanKrutka & Monday’s #MediaEdLab webinar!
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #community #NewCivics #civics #governance #HealOurCulture
“The task for teachers across the subject areas is to help students expand their capacities to think about technology along multiple dimensions and to levels of depth beyond their typical experience and technical know-how. In short, teachers must help students see more of the Iceberg.” (Pleasants et al., 2023, p. 503)
https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/new-publication-preview-of-what-relationships-do-we-want-with-technology #fediLZ #lernenmitKI #KI #AI #civicsoftechnology
Civics of Tech Announcements Our blog posts are a little off schedule this week and next, but we’ll be back to our regular Sunday blog posts after the new year. Next Monthly Tech Talk on Tuesday, 02/06/24 . Join our monthly tech talks to discuss current events, articles, books, podcast,
Wikipedia faces some tough choices about how to change as its role on the internet changes. I wrote a post about some of the tensions that exist and how a new project using machine translation called "#AbstractWikipedia" fits in. #wikipedia #CivicsofTechnology
(2/4) The #CivicsOfTechnology project has a set of questions on its curriculum page for cultivating technoskepticism. The questions are:
1. What does society give up for the benefits of the technology
2. Who is harmed and who benefits from the technology?
3. What does the technology need?
4. What are the unintended or unexpected changes caused by the technology?
5. Why is it difficult to imagine the world without the technology?
Visit the entire curriculum collection: https://civicsoftechnology.squarespace.com/curriculum