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Jon Fila
@jonfila.bsky.social
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Author/Educator/Professional Development (AI, OER, Accessibility, Instructional Design) 2022 MN Teacher of the Year Finalist; 1986 Mr. Hustle Award (Jim Dutcher B-ball Camp)
Chicago, IL

Creator: Dolorem https://doloremcomic.com

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Jon Fila @jonfila.bsky.social · Nov 13
I'm glad you found me! Here's summary of what I'm up to:

#AI sessions I provide: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#EduSky

Latest book on AI: amzn.to/4ezzbfb

My comic book about a hero with #ChronicPain: doloremcomic.com

My dogs Heimdall Spider-Man (left) and Hekla Spider-Ma'am (right)
Mutt and a Bernese Mountain Dog Sitting in the back seat of a car together.
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tommullaney.bsky.social
Children certified in Gemini, a product that amplifies bias, misinformation, and environmental degradation?

K-12 schools should ignore this and encourage kids to think past the genAI hype.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
We have created three distinct certifications tailored to key audiences: Gemini Certified Educator: for teaching innovation and student success. Gemini Certified University Student: for academic excellence and professional preparedness. Gemini Certified Student (K12) for responsible, informed use by high schoolers. Please note a foundational course completion is required before the assessment can be taken.
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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cstross.bsky.social
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
our long national nightmare is over
from TechCrunch: OpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT em dash problem. OpenAI says users can now personalize ChatGPT to stop using the em dash in its output.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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jerthorp.bsky.social
It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
First day of school!

I’m taking a metal working and forging class at Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center.
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
If anyone is looking for a supercut of when pizzas appear in film and TV then Professor Pizza in Chicago has got you covered. Eat pizza while watching pizza!
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
At the health club today I overheard a conversation about how asteroid 2025 PY1.

One is convinced that it contains a mothership that is coming to save us and the government shutdown is planned to keep NASA from releasing photos of it.

I need to spend more time online.
#YallNeedScience
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
AI would advance even if OpenAI disappeared. AI really actually does powerful things that will transform a lot of how we live and work even if AI did not advance further. The way to influence the future is not to pretend that AI is going to go away, but push for it to be used well & mitigate harms.
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
jonfila.bsky.social
"I didn't realize just how biased AI is! That was very eye-opening."

This comment came from an educator after one of my recent sessions. It's exactly why I do this work.

#AIinEducation #EducationalEquity #InclusiveAI #EdTech #EdChat #ProfessionalDevelopment #AIBias #EducationalLeadership
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Now with free AI replies!
LinkedIn comment section on a post. Jon Fila: Getting AI replies in this post seems fitting for something I'm currently working on. Reply 1: your take on implementation timelines is interesting. i'm curious how much the reality on the ground has shifted from what we expected back in 2022? Reply 2: Jon Fila, that sounds fantastic. Excited to glean insights on how AI is reshaping education. Keep rocking, everyone.
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
I'm sure this won't lead to an increase in AI psychosis.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urba...
October 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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AI and Special Education: Mitigating Bias and Improving Support for Learners news.inclusiveaistrategies.com/ai-and-speci...

#AiEducation #EduSky #EdChat
AI and Special Education: Mitigating Bias and Improving Support for Learners
Above all, what I want from LLM is not to replace teachers’ thinking and expertise, but to assist us in tasks. I understand the reality of the classroom teacher, especially Special Education teache…
news.inclusiveaistrategies.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Shout out to @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social and @darktowercomics.bsky.social for putting Dolorem on your shelves! We want to spread the word!
#IndieComics #Chicago
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Things are looking up!
Dolorem 1 now on local creator shelf at FIRST AID COMICS!

#IndieComics #Comics
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
this exists it is called thinking
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Dolorem 1 is now on the shelf @alleycatcomics.bsky.social! Stop in, check out this amazing shop and buy some stuff!

#IndieComics #Comics #ChronicPain
September 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism

ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Dolorem 1 now available in print at @chicagocomics.bsky.social!

Check it out and buy a bunch of stuff there!

#IndieComics #Comics
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
Been seeing a lot of this practice for the last few years.
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
Please read and share my new blog post for Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC)!

AI and Special Education: Mitigating Bias and Improving Support for Learners

www.nextgenlearning.org/articles/ai-...

Reach out to discuss presentations/workshops for your team!

#AiEducation #EdChat #SpecialEd
AI and Special Education: Mitigating Bias and Improving Support
Despite the inherent bias in generative AI tools, thoughtful special educators can use them to help develop and provide accommodations and modifications.
www.nextgenlearning.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
Great to be a guest on MN Now talking about AI as bias engines; issues surrounding AI adoption in education; and why AI regulation is not the way forward.

MN Now: 09/08/25 segment from 12:11 - 23:00. Link on this page: www.mprnews.org/shows/minnes...

#AiEducation #AiBias #EdTech #EdChat #EduSky
Minnesota Now with Nina Moini
Tune into Minnesota Now with Nina Moini to hear live, down-to-earth, unscripted interviews that aim to connect, inform and entertain Minnesotans like you.
www.mprnews.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
I'm going to be on MPR on Minnesota Now on Monday with @ninamoini.bsky.social talking about AI in education sometime between about 12:10 and 12:30. Check it out!

www.mprnews.org/shows/minnes...

Tune in live! I'll post a recording after it's posted.
Minnesota Now with Nina Moini
Tune into Minnesota Now with Nina Moini to hear live, down-to-earth, unscripted interviews that aim to connect, inform and entertain Minnesotans like you.
www.mprnews.org
September 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
jonfila.bsky.social
Still hearing suggestions that students should use LLM for brainstorming. As and English teacher, I want my learners to spend some time in those pre-writing stages thinking before being handed a list, so what if they used the LLM as something to prompt them instead?
#DigitalLearning #EduSky #DLP25
August 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.

⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...

@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.
July 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM