open & higher education | social justice | co-editor, Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures #HE4Good | Bronxite who now calls Ireland home | she/her | http://catherinecronin.net/
Catherine Cronin
Yes. Listen to @merbroussard.bsky.social (Link in thread.)
“Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly $4T is fated to command our public schools, or to grant fellowships to the leaders of those schools, or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them.”
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“Education is for the student to come to feel like the master of her own thinking” Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire, 1978
A timely reminder from @abeba.blacksky.app at #edtech26
Catherine Cronin
Prisonculture
Eileen Clancy 🧿
An invitation to conversation: to
design differently, deploy differently and refashion our relationships to edtech from @discoursology.bsky.social acknowledging fragility and strengthening our human bonds at #edtech26.
While I agree with this post, I had flashbacks reading it. Haven't we been saying this for well over a decade? Possibly two. Perhaps we just need to keep saying it. #oer #repositories
Why Can’t OER Just Be All in One Place? medium.com/creative-com...
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Irish Learning Technology Association
so sorry to be missing #EdTech26 (hello to all!) but grateful to @iltasky.bsky.social for livestreaming keynotes ilta.ie/edtech-2026/
this morning's keynote on AI & Education by @abeba.blacksky.app (@aial.ie) was outstanding: core values of education (love, trust, empathy, care) cannot be datafied
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The paintings of Mitjili Napurrula, Indigenous Australian artist from the Northern Territories #WomensArt
like the global geo-political climate, public discourse around AI is fast deteriorating and I feel it everyday
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Lorna M. Campbell
Equity Unbound
Catherine Cronin
NYU professor and data journalist @merbroussard.bsky.social saw what was coming with AI before the rest of us did. And despite the wave of media layoffs, she has something reassuring to say to journalists worried about being replaced.
This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices.
www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
