Join @mahabali.bsky.social for a co-design session to explore ethical frameworks and dive into real scenarios in small groups.
🗓April15
🕗8:00–9:15 PM Cairo (2:00–3:15 PM ET| 6:00–7:15 PMGMT)
🔗Register:
aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please share widely; bring students, colleagues, and anyone!
In case you missed it: recording of @yasser-tamer.bsky.social workshop with Alan Levine as part of #OEWeek titled: Designing With, Not Around, Disabled Learners.
See firsthand Yasser's experience with using a screenreader when material is inaccessible:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_g...
#A11Y
#Ed
Congratulations, Ian!
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
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Ooh was it recorded?
This is wonderful news!!!!
🎉 We’re thrilled to share some amazing news with you… MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! 🎉
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
Cultivating Learning Sanctuaries w/ Mays Imad: Explore neuroscience, theory & practices of trauma-informed teaching to build classrooms of resilience & care.
📅Aug28| 3–4:15pm GMT
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Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#LearningSanctuaries #TraumaInformedTeaching #HigherEd
The Dream That Creates With Me: Reclaiming Creativity & Imagination w/ Angela Gunder: Explore creative AI literacies through stories, reflection & a co-written manifesto.
📅Aug 18 | 3 PM GMT
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Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#AILiteracies #Imagination #Pedagogy
Knowledge Justice in Digital Spaces: Navigating Algorithmic Bias w/ @danid.bsky.social & Lea Sansom: Explore how bias shapes online voices & strategies for amplifying diversity.
📅Aug13| 3:30–5pm GMT
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Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#AlgorithmicBias #KnowledgeJustice
Poetic Practices for Living Creatively w/ @miazamoraphd.bsky.social & Kefah Ayesh: Explore mindfulness & practices that spark creativity, leading to shared open resources.
🗓Aug11| 4–5pm GMT
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💸Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#Mindfulness #Poetry #Creativity #MYFest25
The Stories We Teach By: Shifting the Pedagogy of the Distressed w/ Rebekah J. Bennetch: Reflect on pressures in higher ed & imagine teaching rooted in authenticity & care.
🗓Aug11| 3–4pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #Pedagogy #HigherEd #Academia
Learning From Students' Stories Using Narrative and Voice-Centred Approaches w/ Kathy Chandler: Explore what student stories reveal, conceal & ask of us as educators.
🗓Thu, Aug7 | 2–3pm GMT
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💸Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#NarrativeInquiry #StudentStories #Pedagogy
Body Mapping to Reflect on Wellbeing
Join Kathy Chandler for a quiet, creative session using body mapping to reflect on wellbeing in education.
🗓Wed, Aug 6 | 5–6pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: Email unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #BodyMapping #Wellbeing #Education
How Teaching Philosophies Inform (and Explain?) AI Adoption
Join Maya Bialik & Peter Nilsson to explore how our philosophies shape AI adoption in education.
📅Wed, Aug 6 | 4–5pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #AIinEducation #Teaching #HigherEd
“Hospicing Modernity” book club w/ Theresa Destrebecq: Join a reflective book club session on harm, responsibility & transformation.
📅Wed, Aug 6 | 2–3:30pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #HospicingModernity #BookClub
Educating & Empowering GenZ w/Laila ElSerty& Rania Jabr: What motivates Gen Z learners, and how should we teach them? Join this session on mindset, AI, integrity & passion in language learning.
📅Aug 5 | 1pm GMT
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Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#GenZ #LanguageLearning
“The Human Nature of Writing” w/ @miazamoraphd.bsky.social & Kefah Ayesh: what makes writing human? Join us for a poetry-based session on expression, connection & creative value.
📅Mon, Aug 4 | 4–5pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#HumanWriting #PoetryAndAI
A Peak into Classrooms that Heal and Inspire w/ Oumaima Elghazali: Explore mental health strategies you can use in any classroom. Expect reflection, practice & care.
📅Aug4| 2–3pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #MentalHealth #Healing #HigherEd
With Uncertainty w/ @davecormier.bsky.social & @sokate.bsky.social : How do we work well in an uncertain world? Join this session on navigating uncertainty in teaching, care & collaboration.
📅Aug 4 | 12–1pm GMT
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Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#Uncertainty #pedagogy
Bridging Polarization: Join Katherine Yngve for Part II: share what worked, what didn’t & how we keep showing up across difference
📅Thu, Jul 31 | 3–4pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: Email unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #BridgingPolarization #Dialogue #HigherEd
Rethinking DEI w/ Jamiella Brooks: What happens when the words we lean on (diversity, equity, inclusion) start to blur? Explore how to stay intentional in equity work.
📅Thu, Jul 31 | 1–2:15pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #DEI #Equity
Join Delphine Dall'Agata to reflect on slow learning, inclusion & intention in digital spaces. Explore metaphors & practices that center care & connection.
📅Wed, Jul30 | 2–3pm GMT
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💸Fee waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #SlowLearning #InclusiveDesign
Join Daniela Gachago & Shanali Govender to rethink learning design through radical flexibility & participatory parity.
📅 Today | 5–6pm GMT
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💸 Fee waiver: email unboundeq@gmail.com
#PostGraduateEducation #SocialJustice #PostgradAccess
Preservation as resistance w/ @unabridgedopinions.com & Chris Millson: how power shapes what’s remembered & erased. Explore digital practices rooted in care& community.
📅Today| 2–3pm GMT
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#PreservationAsResistance #Education #HigherEd
@hypervisible.bsky.social we can't wait!!!! #MYFest25
Join Chris Gilliard to discuss themes from his upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Explore how AI-driven tech blurs lines between control & convenience.
📅Tue, July 29 | 🕔 5–6pm Cairo | 2–3pm GMT
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Fee Waiver: unboundeq@gmail.com
#Surveillance #AI #HigherEd
Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity
Vanessa & Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti explore meta-relationality, AI & world endings.
📅July 29 | 🕗 8–10pm Cairo | 5–7pm GMT
🔗Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi...
💸 Fee waiver available
📩 Email: unboundeq@gmail.com
#MYFest25 #AI #Relationality #HigherEd