Nothing to Hide: Student Arguments — Civics of Technology AERA Meetup: Meet up with us at AERA! Friday, April 10, 2026 4:00-5:30 PT at the Yard House in LA. Please RSVP for the event here. Next Tech Talk: Our April Tech Talk will feature the theme of...

Today, @banvillemorgan.bsky.social shares how she challenges her students to critique the argument that we have nothing to fear from surveillance provided we have "nothing to hide."

Read about her approach and hear from three of her students!

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Welcoming Submissions for the Inaugural Class of the Critical Tech Hall of Fame — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements AERA Meetup: Meet up with us at AERA! Friday, April 10, 2026 4:00-5:30 PT at the Yard House in LA. Please RSVP for the event here. Next Tech Talk: Our Apr...

We're putting together a Critical Tech Hall of Fame!

And we want you to be a part of it.

Read about it here!

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Questioning AI with Future Teachers — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Our April Tech Talk will feature the theme of “Caregiver Resistance to (Ed)Tech.” It will be on Wednesday, April 15 at 8:00 PM ET. You can regi...

AI: The latest labor-saving tech for teachers

Today, @alliethrall.bsky.social, @jbpleasa.bsky.social, and @dankrutka.bsky.social write about how they have been questioning the "labor-saving" narrative with future teachers:

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Caregivers Challenging Ed-Tech in Schools: An Invitation to Engage — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: This one’s a little different. Our April Tech Talk will feature the theme of “Caregiver Resistance to (Ed)Tech.” It will be on Wednesday, April ...

EdTech is NOT inevitable. Join the community. Share your work of resistance.

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A Good Week for Technoskepticism — Civics of Technology By Jacob Pleasants Today’s midweek blog post is a bit of a news roundup, inspired by a collection of items that have been showing up in my media feed. Each is interesting on its own, but I think they...

Midweek blog post: Signs that (Ed)Tech has entered its decadent phase?

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New Curriculum! Comparing Children’s Lives and Community Against AI’s Illusions of Life — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Upcoming Book Club: We’re reading The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms our Kids’ Learning - And How to Help Them Thrive Again by Jared Cooney H...

Check out our newest addition to the curriculum library, courtesy of @mariekheath.bsky.social

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A Digital Delusion? — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Upcoming Book Club: We’re reading Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Justice and Joy by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heat...

Have you heard about "The Digital Delusion?"

We have thoughts about it.

We'd like to hear your thoughts about it.

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This month's Tech Talk is on Thursday March 5 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. Join the community and talk about whatever is on your mind!

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Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms A practical guide for teachers and students navigating the complicated intersection of artificial intelligence, education, and justice Artificial intelligenc...

Coming up this week!

Join our book club on Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heath.

March 4th at 8pm EST

Register on our Events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

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Our Time Amongst the Luddites — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Upcoming Book Club: We’re reading Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Justice and Joy by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heat...

In today's @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog, I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to reflect on what we've learned while writing about the Luddites over the last three years. We share thoughts about Luddism and education, collaboration, and writing for different audiences.

I Hope this Blog Post Finds You — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements New! Technology Audit Curriculum: This activity provides a structured way to surface the ethical dimensions of technology tools. Drawing on four analytic ap...

"The question I keep coming back to isn’t whether individual teachers are wrong to use these tools, but what it means that such tools now exist in the first place..."

Today: Brad Robinson writes about human connection and "synthetic affect."

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Activists who challenged Industry Inevitability Myths — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements New! Technology Audit Curriculum: This activity provides a structured way to surface the ethical dimensions of technology tools. Drawing on four analytic ap...

Today, learn from activists who have resisted data centers and other exploitative projects.

Sue Kasun and Erin Anderson interview Omar Lázaro García and Aurora Gómez.

You can also read their conversation in Spanish!

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February Tech Talk tonight!
8:00 Eastern Time
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Introducing the Ethics of Actors in SYstems (EASY) approach to digital advertising literacy — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

Today, Michelle Ciccone shares some of her recent work on Digital Advertising Literacy with 6th grade students. How do these students navigate the onslaught of ads, influencers, and marketing?

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And if you missed Day 1, we have a recording available on the Privacy page

Privacy — Civics of Technology

Be sure to catch Day 2 of our Privacy Week webinars!

Thursday, Jan 29 from 6:00-7:30 PM EST

Register here: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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To hear more from Jamie and others, come to our Privacy Week Webinars!

Day 1, January 22, 6:00-7:30 EST: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Day 2, January 29, 6:00-7:30 EST: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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To hear more from Jamie and others, come to our Privacy Week Webinars!

Day 1, January 22, 6:00-7:30 EST: maritime-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Sleights of hand: What library patron data is PII (and what isn’t) — Civics of Technology An overview of privacy scholarship from one of the speakers from our first webinar during Privacy Week! Register to learn more!

Today, from Jamie Taylor:

"...the best we can do, often, to maintain the kind of privacy library we have long told readers they can expect is to browbeat vendors into acting right, and that it only rarely works."

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When Copilot is the Data Analyst — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

What's the scarier prospect?

That chatbots are analyzing people's data? Or that this practice is seen as unremarkable?

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First Tech Talk of 2026 this Thursday, Jan 8 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.

Join in for some conversation about... whatever is on your mind!

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First Tech Talk of 2026 this Thursday, Jan 8 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.

Join in for some conversation about... whatever is on your mind!

Register here: oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

2025: A Year of Civics of Tech — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

2025 - What a year it was!

Here's our roundup of 2025's most-read blog posts, new curriculum resources, reviews, and more.

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Thinking Critically About AI: A New Critical Quotes Classroom Activity — Civics of Technology by Dan Krutka and Marie Heath with Danielle Peck When we first developed the Critical Technology Quotes , we sought to create a simple entry point for students to gather a range of critical perspe...

The ever-popular Critical Tech Quotes activity now has an "AI Edition" - Read all about it in today's blog post!

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Citizens Without the Digital: A Call for Resistance in a Collective Way  — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

Today, Marta Estellés and Andrew Doyle share ideas and approaches to collective resistance:

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When Education Serves the Machine: The Technocapitalist Capture of Universities — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...

Today, Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld examines recent "partnerships" between universities and big tech. Who do such deals serve?

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Join Us for Data Privacy Week — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Curriculum Crowdsourcing : One of the most popular activities in our Curriculum is our Critical Tech Quote Activity because the lessons offers a quick way to int...

Put this on your calendar for January!

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