Chris Davis ➡️

how Ai connects students to nature how sensory becomes inquiry becomes science democratizing access to academic research for second graders in remote Panama teacherslens.substack.com/p/ai-experienc… @OpenAI #chatgpt

why the talk about #ai has to start young and the smart uses need to be present in the classroom, demystify the whole thing bbc.com/future/article…

Nothing to see here. Just the slow normalization of surveillance as the price of participation in modern life. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to… question.

Nothing to see here. Just algorithms quietly deciding which truths trend and which truths vanish. Definitely neutral. Definitely math. theverge.com/policy/897106/…

Data brokers: “We respect your privacy.” Also data brokers: “Would you like to buy the movement history of 40 million Americans sorted by coffee preference?” Nothing to see here. #dataprivacy

FBI: We’re not tracking you. Also FBI: We just accidentally bought a detailed map of everywhere you've been since 2017. Nothing to see here. theverge.com/news/897145/ka…

Powerful new Harvard Business Review study. "AI does not reduce work. It intensifies it. " A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier. Task expansion happened because AI filled in gaps in knowledge, so people started doing work that used to belong to other roles or would have been outsourced or deferred. That shift created extra coordination and review work for specialists, including fixing AI-assisted drafts and coaching colleagues whose work was only partly correct or complete. Boundaries blurred because starting became as easy as writing a prompt, so work slipped into lunch, meetings, and the minutes right before stepping away. Multitasking rose because people ran multiple AI threads at once and kept checking outputs, which increased attention switching and mental load. Over time, this faster rhythm raised expectations for speed through what became visible and normal, even without explicit pressure from managers.

Between 2008 and 2020, U.S. newspaper newsroom employment fell 57%. More than 200 counties are now "news deserts"—no local outlet at all. In another 1,500+ counties, only one remains. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

problem with the rule of thirds, it makes Ai so possible, when everyone has been defaulting to the same arrangements, we just become predictable, very not human eyeshotstreetphotography.com/the-rule-of-th… #photography

what kind of screen time, what content, what context, how interactive? Quality, design, and relationships matter more than raw time. and reminder that screens as babysitters especially in the two hours before sleep, bad idea #k12 publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art…

references for schools, UNESCO and OECD AI ethics frameworks, these are great examples for C3 Civics and media literacy case studies #k12

ALL THE WORLD’S BIRTHS IN 2025

1 in 14 people who ever lived are alive today.

Two Rice University students created a digital map documenting U.S. Immigration Customs Agency activity, and awareness around their project has been growing since it went live in June. bit.ly/45Eo4jE

Remember this day -- when Trump's attorney general ordered the arrest of a journalist. Journalism is not a crime. Speech Donald Trump doesn't like committed by people he doesn't like is not illegal. #FirstAmendment

In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help: vox.com/future-perfect…

What more evidence do we need that Donald Trump is trying to torch our republic. None of this can be normalized.

great year to be a teacher reflecting on the bases of Dewey and Freire schools as training grounds for democracies teaching as a political act #C3civics #constitution mashable.com/article/signal…

the binary narrative of persecuted Christians in #Nigeria is incomplete the Bishop of Sakoto explains key points, far more Muslims have been victims of jihadists than Christians, any restrictions on Christians is civic and bureaucratic fides.org/en/news/76951-…

haunting this Leontovych piece will never be the same for all the conservative talk of preserving Christmas culture, it should have resonated... hemiola 2/4 3/4 like a polyrhythmic chant, G-F#-E-F# churning through the mind all day #ukraine

and and Ai curated list of big shifts for universities to consider... Epistemic drift: letting AI systems quietly redefine “what counts as knowledge,” truth, and evidence in coursework and research. (Business Insider) Corporate capture / dependency: becoming structurally reliant on a few vendors (pricing power, lock-in, branding, policy influence). (Business Insider) Faculty workload & inequity blowback: AI rollouts adding hidden labor (policy, redesign, policing, support) and widening inequities across roles/disciplines. (AAUP) Data governance failures: student/faculty data leakage, retention ambiguity, training-on-your-data concerns, cross-border data issues. (OECD) IP and authorship confusion: who owns AI-assisted outputs, training data rights, copyrighted inputs, and research originality. (TEQSA) Assessment redesign gap: not just “detecting AI,” but building assessments with epistemic checkpoints (process evidence, oral components, iterative drafts, tool critique). (Business Insider) Unequal access and a new “AI divide”: advantaged students using better tools/workflows; others falling behind academically and professionally. (The Guardian) Model risk in high-stakes decisions: using AI in advising, admissions, mental health triage, misconduct investigations—where errors and bias can cause real harm. (AAUP) Mission creep: “AI for admin efficiency” quietly expanding into surveillance, behavior scoring, or coercive analytics that undermine trust. Long-term capability erosion: students outsourcing core thinking/writing sense-making—and universities graduating “simulated competence.” #aiineducation