You Do Not, In Fact, Have to Hand It to Them
Way back in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, memorialized in a photograph of him striding to the stage past rows of men with the Oculus Rift VR headsets strapped to their faces: Fast forward a decade and now the founder of
Placeholder People
Something I Can Never Have
"AI isn't lightening workloads," The Wall Street Journal reported last week. "It's making them more intense." Well, yes. This is, in fact, how "workload" works under capitalism: labor is perpetually squeezed to do more, to generate more surplus value, to
False Spring
The Final Boss
This morning I attended one of the new NYC Chancellor's public "conversations," his administration's initiative to "engage directly with communities to reflect on what safety, academic rigor, and true integration look like in practice." There were about one hundred folks in attendance,
Spring Forward, Fall Apart
There is No "Human-Centered 'AI'"
Two recently-published reports use the same phrase – “human-centered AI” – urging schools to adopt automated and predictive technologies that, as The 74’s Greg Toppo reports, “serve human-centered learning [and] that doesn’t simply push for more efficiency. To do anything else risks creating a generation of young people ill-equipped for
"AI" is Yesterday's News
I gave this talk yesterday to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as part of the MTA Retired First Wednesday Speaker Series. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m honored that you’ve asked me here, as I strongly believe that “AI” marks one of
The Recipe Change
Secret Agent Man
Some weeks, the education technology news is incredibly grim, and sorry to say this was one of those weeks. (Warning: this is a long email.) Indeed, anytime education- and child-related tech stories fill a Garbage Day newsletter as they did on Monday -- Garbage Day describes itself as a publication
