The first post of 2026 on the Alternative Social Media Researchers Blog is live! It's by @jjsylvia and it presents a syllabus of a course in social media ethics. The course uses a classroom instance of Mastodon to work through ethical issues in digital media.
https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2026/01/12/teaching-mastodon.html
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#Mastodon #pedagogy #alternativeSocialMedia

The first post of 2026 on the Alternative Social Media Researchers Blog is live! It's by @jjsylvia and it presents a syllabus of a course in social media ethics. The course uses a classroom instance of Mastodon to work through ethical issues in digital media.
https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2026/01/12/teaching-mastodon.html
Are you also teaching using Mastodon or other alternative social media? Reach out to us!

#alternativeSocialMedia #pedagogy

Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance:

Source:
👉 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt7790

#Performance #Education #TalentDevelopment #HumanPotential #LearningScience #Pedagogy #SkillAcquisition #Specialization #HumanPerformance #Development #Science #Academic #Students #Learning

Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance:

Source:
👉 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt7790

#Performance #Education #TalentDevelopment #HumanPotential #LearningScience #Pedagogy #SkillAcquisition #Specialization #HumanPerformance #Development #Science #Academic #Students #Learning

Johanna Winant on close reading under austerity

'My own attention became attenuated, and I was less and less able to help students bring their ideas into focus. Failing at one of the things I cared most about made me feel I was being hollowed out. I started crying on the drive home. I contemplated going to law school. I read about “moral injury.” I looked up the university’s bylaws. I felt feverish with fury...student after student, professor after professor, alum after alum, community member after community member spoke—the comments ran for hours—asking, begging, and demanding that the Board of Governors not approve the cuts. The next day they were voted through: we lost; we knew we would'

#pedagogy #austerity #academia #lifelongLearning

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/

Johanna Winant on close reading under austerity

'My own attention became attenuated, and I was less and less able to help students bring their ideas into focus. Failing at one of the things I cared most about made me feel I was being hollowed out. I started crying on the drive home. I contemplated going to law school. I read about “moral injury.” I looked up the university’s bylaws. I felt feverish with fury...student after student, professor after professor, alum after alum, community member after community member spoke—the comments ran for hours—asking, begging, and demanding that the Board of Governors not approve the cuts. The next day they were voted through: we lost; we knew we would'

#pedagogy #austerity #academia #lifelongLearning

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/

A project my daughter organized:

100 chats for college students

These chats were made by students, for students. Learn new things, start a career, and navigate life more confidently.

#ai #llm #education #learning #pedagogy #edtech

https://chatgpt.com/use-cases/students

A project my daughter organized:

100 chats for college students

These chats were made by students, for students. Learn new things, start a career, and navigate life more confidently.

#ai #llm #education #learning #pedagogy #edtech

https://chatgpt.com/use-cases/students

I was trying to post this on my blog, but it seems to be not cooperating these days… So here comes a long thread on #Pedagogy, #FineArtsEducation, #4ECognition, #Phenomenology, #Dewey, and #Vygotsky…
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I have a feeling there will be several of these…

This fall term I will be on a research leave. I am temporarily (and voluntarily!) relieved of all my regular duties in order to spend time doing research — the research I would normally do in my free time, in the moments between meetings, on the weekends… Suddenly that is my main job; I’m not quite sure how I’ll respond once the term starts again, but I’ll do my best to manage.

And what will I be researching? A couple of things: (1/5)

“Mollick discusses the transformative potential of AI in various fields, particularly education and medicine, as well as the need for empirical research to understand AI's impact, the importance of adapting teaching methods, and the challenges of cognitive de-skilling.”

Includes extended discussion on law school teaching. The Apple podcast has a generated transcript.

#lawfare#ScalingLaws #podcast#AGI#AI#LLM #pedagogy

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scaling-laws/id1607949880?i=1000715411530