Leo Havemann
@leohavemann.bsky.social
interested in higher / open / digital education.
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An important reminder that when you see the term "anti-woke" it is often a euphemism for "contains material from Stormfront"
Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)
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November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
An important reminder that when you see the term "anti-woke" it is often a euphemism for "contains material from Stormfront"
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This insight from @caseynewton.bsky.social is very good. It gets at something I've been trying to work out - the death of hypocrisy in tech, making shamelessness the most effective strategy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
This insight from @caseynewton.bsky.social is very good. It gets at something I've been trying to work out - the death of hypocrisy in tech, making shamelessness the most effective strategy.
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‘2025 Voice of the Online Learner (UK Edition)’
"This report doesn’t claim to solve the challenges of online learning, but it ... telling us how to design better ones."
👉 Read my summary here: www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/20...
"This report doesn’t claim to solve the challenges of online learning, but it ... telling us how to design better ones."
👉 Read my summary here: www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/20...
‘2025 Voice of the Online Learner (UK Edition)’
This week marked the release of ‘Voice of the Online Learner (UK Edition)’. This is the first time UK-specific insight has been published, being based on data from the US until now. It’…
www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
‘2025 Voice of the Online Learner (UK Edition)’
"This report doesn’t claim to solve the challenges of online learning, but it ... telling us how to design better ones."
👉 Read my summary here: www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/20...
"This report doesn’t claim to solve the challenges of online learning, but it ... telling us how to design better ones."
👉 Read my summary here: www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/20...
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We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
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There are those of us who have been saying that the best preparation for "prompt engineering" is likely to learn how to read, write, and think and, well, here you go.
Quite an opening.
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
There are those of us who have been saying that the best preparation for "prompt engineering" is likely to learn how to read, write, and think and, well, here you go.
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This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
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Diversification of Reading Lists Toolkit @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social campuspress.leeds.ac.uk/diversificat...
Diversification of Reading Lists Toolkit
campuspress.leeds.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Diversification of Reading Lists Toolkit @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social campuspress.leeds.ac.uk/diversificat...
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Walk into the classroom.
Give students pens & papers (no, they won't have pens).
Ask them to work individually on a reflection task for 10 min.
Count until they get bored and start fidgeting.
If you're lucky, you reach 5 min.
Sad but true.
Education became so transactional.
#BringThinkingBack
Give students pens & papers (no, they won't have pens).
Ask them to work individually on a reflection task for 10 min.
Count until they get bored and start fidgeting.
If you're lucky, you reach 5 min.
Sad but true.
Education became so transactional.
#BringThinkingBack
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Walk into the classroom.
Give students pens & papers (no, they won't have pens).
Ask them to work individually on a reflection task for 10 min.
Count until they get bored and start fidgeting.
If you're lucky, you reach 5 min.
Sad but true.
Education became so transactional.
#BringThinkingBack
Give students pens & papers (no, they won't have pens).
Ask them to work individually on a reflection task for 10 min.
Count until they get bored and start fidgeting.
If you're lucky, you reach 5 min.
Sad but true.
Education became so transactional.
#BringThinkingBack
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Is anyone even on Bluesky? Worth blooting Sarah's keynote for the Deakin Teaching & Learning Conference?
#DeakinTLC
#DeakinTLC
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Is anyone even on Bluesky? Worth blooting Sarah's keynote for the Deakin Teaching & Learning Conference?
#DeakinTLC
#DeakinTLC
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
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@abbis.bsky.social and @leohavemann.bsky.social looks like a shining light in the see of AI darkness...👇
I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
@abbis.bsky.social and @leohavemann.bsky.social looks like a shining light in the see of AI darkness...👇
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I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.
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Our new book coming out in April 2026! uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-lea... @clive-young.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social @uclpress.bsky.social @timneumann.bsky.social @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @jourde.bsky.social @jostroud.bsky.social
ABC Learning Design
ABC Learning Design is a popular and effective rapid design method for developing university-level programmes, modules and short courses. Created at UCL in 2015, ABC enables academic teams to collabor...
uclpress.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Caught between academic and service roles, educational developers have struggled to define their exact remit. As AI raises questions about the value of HE, they should focus on implementing leaders’ pedagogical strategy in line with different academic cultures, say Claire Gordon and Samantha Smidt
Can educational developers resolve their identity crisis?
Caught between academic and service roles, educational developers have struggled to define their exact remit. As AI raises questions about the value of HE, they should focus on implementing leaders’ p...
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Caught between academic and service roles, educational developers have struggled to define their exact remit. As AI raises questions about the value of HE, they should focus on implementing leaders’ pedagogical strategy in line with different academic cultures, say Claire Gordon and Samantha Smidt
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For #oeweek25 I am involved in a week-long celebration of blogging on the open web with @www.reclaimhosting.com ; and I am also joining Amanda Coolidge, Executive Director of BCcampus and Marcela Morales, Executive Director OEGlobal, on OE Global Voices 🙌 oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/in-...
March 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
For #oeweek25 I am involved in a week-long celebration of blogging on the open web with @www.reclaimhosting.com ; and I am also joining Amanda Coolidge, Executive Director of BCcampus and Marcela Morales, Executive Director OEGlobal, on OE Global Voices 🙌 oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/in-...
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Famously, "democratization" is when a single guy owns a proprietary technology that doesn't require paying human beings for their labor.
January 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Famously, "democratization" is when a single guy owns a proprietary technology that doesn't require paying human beings for their labor.
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The book "Learning Design Voices" offers a rich array of views, experiences and scholarly reflections from a wide diversity of learning designers across the world.
A hidden gem. Plus it is freely available open access
edtechbooks.org/ldvoices/
December 21, 2024 at 2:49 PM
The book "Learning Design Voices" offers a rich array of views, experiences and scholarly reflections from a wide diversity of learning designers across the world.
A hidden gem. Plus it is freely available open access
edtechbooks.org/ldvoices/
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A curated bibliography of varied and rich freely available resources on digital education with a local flavour bit.ly/Digital_Educ...
#Highered #Edtech #highereducation #globalsouth
#Highered #Edtech #highereducation #globalsouth
Digital education open bibliography
bit.ly
November 10, 2024 at 7:12 AM
A curated bibliography of varied and rich freely available resources on digital education with a local flavour bit.ly/Digital_Educ...
#Highered #Edtech #highereducation #globalsouth
#Highered #Edtech #highereducation #globalsouth
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#ALTC24
For those new to the Bluesky platform, here is a handy Learning Technology and Digital Education Starter Pack. 150 folks to follow. go.bsky.app/MLDmLaM
@dompates.bsky.social
For those new to the Bluesky platform, here is a handy Learning Technology and Digital Education Starter Pack. 150 folks to follow. go.bsky.app/MLDmLaM
@dompates.bsky.social
August 30, 2024 at 8:33 AM
#ALTC24
For those new to the Bluesky platform, here is a handy Learning Technology and Digital Education Starter Pack. 150 folks to follow. go.bsky.app/MLDmLaM
@dompates.bsky.social
For those new to the Bluesky platform, here is a handy Learning Technology and Digital Education Starter Pack. 150 folks to follow. go.bsky.app/MLDmLaM
@dompates.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.
August 28, 2024 at 6:42 AM
I'm old enough to remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.