🚀 Our 19th annual game design challenge has launched!

💬 Topic: #toxicity

📆 Submit ideas by March 23, 2026

⭐ $10,000 in cash prizes
⭐ Critiques for all Finalists

🎮 Please boost to reach #gamedevs, #designers, #artists, #writers, #composers, and more.

🧡 Presented by an award-winning #nonprofit program producing trauma-informed videogames for #violence #prevention since 2008.

Details, rules, and resources at the contest website.

🌐 https://toxify.org

#games #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #gamejam #nonprofit #education #edtech #sociology #media #tech

Toxify - 2026 Game Design Challenge to Help [DE]toxify

A trauma-informed game design challenge from Gaming Against Violence about toxic attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

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Hello Mastodon! 👋 I'm Sharon Tettegah, a researcher and former Managing Editor of the Emotions and Technology book series with Elsevier. My work explores how emotions shape and are shaped by technology in learning environments. I'm currently working on a new volume on Emotions and AI, and I'm excited to connect with others thinking about these intersections. Looking forward to the conversations ahead! #AcademicMastodon #EdTech #AI #EmotionsAndTechnology #HigherEd

How generative AI is reshaping New Zealand education - NZ Herald #edtech
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/education/how-generative-ai-is-reshaping-new-zealand-education/7DOM3CCZUZG6RGE5PNXGMCREGU/

Principals nationwide fear AI will erode students' critical thinking skills.

How generative AI is reshaping New Zealand education

Principals nationwide fear AI will erode students' critical thinking skills.

The New Zealand Herald

Y’all. The company I work for published an article I wrote on accessibility.

It’s specifically focused on virtual classrooms, but the concepts are universal. The main point being that accessibility isn’t simply about legal compliance.

https://blog.booknook.com/accessibilitys-role-in-the-learning-process

#Accessibility #A11y #Design #Development #EdTech #ADA

Accessibility’s Role in the Learning Process

Accessibility shapes how students engage and learn. Examine barriers, reduce friction, and support stronger outcomes in reading and math.

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Podcaster and author Jennifer Berkshire looks at the rising backlash against ed tech and the curious collective amnesia accompanying it. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/jennifer-berkshire-how-did-this-happen/ #EdTech
Jennifer Berkshire: How Did This Happen??? - Network For Public Education

Podcaster and author Jennifer Berkshire looks at the rising backlash against ed tech and the curious collective amnesia accompanying it. Stories about parents rebelling against big tech are everywhere right now. They’re sick of the screens, the hoovering up of their children’s data, and they view AI and its rapid incursion into schools as a menace, not […]

Network For Public Education

Connected or Left Behind: Reimagining Access in the Age of AI Learning - EdTech Digest #edtech
https://www.edtechdigest.com/2026/03/19/connected-or-left-behind-reimagining-access-in-the-age-of-ai-learning/

Mission Telecom’s Mark Colwell on closing the last mile of digital equity—and why seamless connectivity is becoming invisible infrastructure in education. INTERVIEW | by Victor Rivero For years, the digital divide has been framed as a question of access. Today, it’s a question of exper...

Connected or Left Behind: Reimagining Access in the Age of AI Learning - EdTech Digest

Mission Telecom’s Mark Colwell on closing the last mile of digital equity—and why seamless connectivity is becoming invisible infrastructure in education. INTERVIEW | by Victor Rivero For years, the digital divide has been framed as a question of access. Today, it’s a question of experience—whether connectivity is reliable, affordable, and truly ubiquitous for every learner. […]

EdTech Digest

Accessibility is often treated as a feature. Something you add at the end, if there’s time, if there’s budget, if someone asks.

But what if it’s not a layer?
What if it’s the logic of the system itself?

When accessibility is designed from the beginning, participation stops being selective. It becomes structural.

And that’s where democracy quietly shifts from principle to practice.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/democracy-in-3d-how-the-eu-democracy?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #CivicTech #DigitalDemocracy #EU #YouthParticipation #Accessibility #EdTech