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Registration is open for ACH 2026, taking place virtually June 24–26! This year's theme centers transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas, with bilingual participation in English and Spanish. Register now: ach2026.ach.org

Would love to learn more from you (all) about possible strategies for building community on a campus without a dh "center" (both literally and metaphorically)!

Thanks to your continued raising of awareness, the conversations are happening on my campus!

Wow, looking forward to the SoCal book tour (I hope!)

The MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching I’m in drafted this Statement on #AI and #Assessment, endorsed by the #MLA Executive Council.

I hope our community finds it useful to hold the line against EdTech opportunism and the erosion of core pedagogical values.

www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Digital Humanities on the Edge Our four speakers examine topics core to the future directions of DH: Infrastructure, Surveillance, Platforms, and Artificial Intelligence.

We're excited to share details of our first event of the year!

'Digital Humanities on the Edge: Infrastructure, Surveillance, Platforms, Artificial Intelligence.'

Friday 27th March
11am AEDT (via Zoom - link to follow)

Details & registration: events.humanitix.com/digital-huma...

Our teachers union @aft.org is collaborating not only with OpenAI but also with some outfit called BuildSubmarines-dot-com that will host a session that "connects career literacy to the Maritime Industrial Base and the U.S. Navy’s workforce needs"?! Unbelievably misjudged. @aftteach.bsky.social

Too realistic! 'Detecting “authentic” student thinking is technically possible, but prohibitively expensive. Think about it: We would need to pay real human faculty to interact with real human students. We do not have the budget for that.'

👀 Is this a third-party plugin or a Canvas add-on feature? (Concerned about the labor issue of dysfunctional automated surveillance of faculty, who should be respected as the experts on inclusive course design!)

For the higher ed context, I appreciated this conversation from people who do care: "Who Cares About Procurement?" (_Higher Education for Good_ 2023) library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Thanks!

Anyone know of plans for/interest in an ACH 2026 hub in SoCal? @plach.bsky.social ? Might people like to come out to Irvine?

Introducing OpenAI’s Education for Countries Helping countries build future ready education systems and workforces with AI

Even spelled out as a model to be replicated in OpenAI's press release: "partnerships to support teacher-led AI adoption like with the American Federation of Teachers in the United States" openai.com/index/edu-fo...

Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company. Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health. Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.

Link below and anyone can sign:

Looking forward to your panel!

ACH 2026 CFP Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool

The CFP for ACH2026 is now live: ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/

The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual.

Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI is Not Inevitable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. A conversation with educators, education unions and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience

AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!

Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.

December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom

Link to register below👇

LA Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.

Solidarity with teachers @utlanow.bsky.social "i-Ready software generates new and unique questions for students based on [...] an algorithm, but parents and teachers are unable to see what children are asked, in part because the company that makes the program considers them proprietary information."

A helpful document to share with colleagues who persist in the "policing" mode!

Weizenbaum Conference 2026: Call for Papers The Weizenbaum Institute will host its 8th annual Conference on the topic “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?“ We invite interested scholars to submit papers for presentations. The conferenc...

📣 Call for Papers: Weizenbaum Conference 2026
🤖 “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?”
📅 Berlin, June 10–11, 2026
📌 Submit papers by Jan 31, 2026
🔗 More: t1p.de/wa2nc

Painfully true (as all your characterizations in this list), but with some exceptions: bsky.app/profile/trev...

My colleagues and I in a first-year humanities program have been considering the same! In case helpful to others: I just checked www.zotero.org/accessibility and am glad to see the desktop app and browser add-on meet WCAG 2.2 AA.

#TCDXII Our twelfth conference dedicated to Caribbean digital studies. Jamaica, 2025.

And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!

DHX Reading Group: Theorizing Generative AI in Education In a 2024 issue of the PMLA, Matthew Kirschenbaum and Rita Raley warned of the consequences of generative AI tech adoption for the educational mission of the university. How can we now think through the current state (and possible futures) of humanities pedagogy as praxis? We’ll take as spurs to conversation one reading from the field of critical studies in education and an industry report from Google. Please RSVP if you’ll be joining us for lunch. For

I keep taking opportunities to share the link to your PMLA piece in case any colleagues haven't read it yet:

Learning is the bedrock of human potential and societal progress. It equips us with new skills, sparks curiosity and the exchange of fresh ideas, spurs innovative breakthroughs, and drives economic growth. New technologies have always been a force to expand society’s knowledge, as well as accelerate, challenge, and ultimately reshape how we learn and what we know. From the invention of the printing press to the vast expanse of the internet, advances in technology have helped to democratize access to information and opportunity, pushing the boundaries of human potential. Learning, while lifelong, is especially rapid in early childhood — both within and outside of formal education settings.

Also appears in the recently released Google "report" on "AI and the Future of Learning," called out by bsky.app/profile/benp...

May she rest in peace and her words and work live on. www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Looking forward to reading Nan Z. Da's piece and sad at today's announcement that my University of California campus library is ceasing its subscription to NLR at year's end. www.lib.uci.edu/resources-ca...

Education Technology Companies and AFT/CFT Education Technology Companies and AFT/CFT Submitted by the Labor and Climate Justice Education Committee and the Higher ...

For all those @aft.org members who disagree with your national union's decision to accept tens of millions of dollars from @microsoft.com, OpenAI, and @anthropic.com, you're not alone.

@cftunion.bsky.social opposes these partnerships and your union can join us.

www.cft.org/resolution/e...