I *told* you that I had another post in me about "tasteslop"!
In this post, I show how tasteslop is elegant consumption applied to cultural capital.
Legitimate digital literacies, just like real taste, require proof of work, productive friction, and small communities. Not smooth tools.
https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/beyond-elegant-consumption-again/
Emily Segal has coined "tasteslop" for AI-generated work that looks tasteful but is extracted from the social relations that give taste meaning.
I think the same logic runs through education. Literacy-slop is the credential without the community of practice, the qualification without the learning. It satisfies the classifier and nothing else.
https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/literacy-slop/
#DigitalLiteracies #OpenRecognition #AI #Education #CriticalDigitalLiteracies
In my latest blog post I bang on about why “frictionless” experiences aren't always a good idea, and how a bit of productive friction can help us think, learn, and act with more agency.
Mozilla Webmaker (RIP), elegant consumption, AI “friction architects”, and the sweet spot between rage‑quit friction and mindless scrolling.
Sometimes the highest good is not an uninterrupted flow from intention to completion. Sometimes the more human outcome – the one that promotes agency – is the one that introduces a pause that's long enough to notice, judge, reconsider, and perhaps to choose differently.
💬 6 AI use case primitives | Thought Shrapnel
Replied to https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/06/13/ai-use-case-primitives.html (thoughtshrapnel.com)It’s not often I link directly to a LinkedIn post. However, the author of this, Ben Cohen, doesn’t seem to have posted it elsewhere, so needs must. Cohen also doesn’t cite the original source of the analysis he references, but it looks like it comes from an OpenAI report entitled Identifying and scaling AI use…
https://collect.readwriterespond.com/6-ai-use-case-primitives-thought-shrapnel/
New #introduction time:
👋 Hey, I've been here on the Fedi since early 2017
Founding member of @weareopencoop working at the intersection of #learning, #technology & #community.
Was PM of #MoodleNet, a decentralised digital commons built on #ActivityPub from 2018-2020 which has morphed into @bonfire, a federated app toolkit.
Wrote doctoral thesis on #digitalliteracies. Was on Mozilla's #OpenBadges team & led #WebLiteracy work.
Pursuing MSc in #SystemsThinking
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The report from Tactical Tech focuses on Digital Media Literacy (DML), exploring its complexities and the challenges associated with how it’s assessed. It delves into the role of teachers and educators, hopefully once and for all dismissing the notion of “digital natives” and “digital non-natives”. The report emphasises that both teachers and […]
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/15/navigating-the-landscape-of-digital-and-media-literacy/
The report from Tactical Tech focuses on Digital Media Literacy (DML), exploring its complexities and the challenges associated with how its assessed. It delves into the role of teachers and educators, hopefully once and for all dismissing the notion of "digital natives" and "digital non-natives". T
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