Stoked to be exploring this #BlueSky world! It feels like Twitter 2007 all over again :). Would love to connect with educators passionate about #SchoolLibraries, #TeacherLibrarianship, #DigitalLiteracies, #InformationLiteracy and more!
December 14, 2023 at 3:05 AM
Stoked to be exploring this #BlueSky world! It feels like Twitter 2007 all over again :). Would love to connect with educators passionate about #SchoolLibraries, #TeacherLibrarianship, #DigitalLiteracies, #InformationLiteracy and more!
Just resharing this starter pack for those interested in research and chatter on #digitalliteracies or #tech in #ELA. #edusky #academicsky
go.bsky.app/98FHS2C
go.bsky.app/98FHS2C
December 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Just resharing this starter pack for those interested in research and chatter on #digitalliteracies or #tech in #ELA. #edusky #academicsky
go.bsky.app/98FHS2C
go.bsky.app/98FHS2C
The report on #AILiteracies I wrote with @laurahilliger.com for BBC R&D has now been released! 🙌
It was delayed due to the charter renewal process, so hopefully it still stands up to scrutiny...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/responsib... [PDF]
#AILiteracy #DigitalLiteracies #DigitalLiteracy
It was delayed due to the charter renewal process, so hopefully it still stands up to scrutiny...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/responsib... [PDF]
#AILiteracy #DigitalLiteracies #DigitalLiteracy
April 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The report on #AILiteracies I wrote with @laurahilliger.com for BBC R&D has now been released! 🙌
It was delayed due to the charter renewal process, so hopefully it still stands up to scrutiny...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/responsib... [PDF]
#AILiteracy #DigitalLiteracies #DigitalLiteracy
It was delayed due to the charter renewal process, so hopefully it still stands up to scrutiny...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/responsib... [PDF]
#AILiteracy #DigitalLiteracies #DigitalLiteracy
If “new literacies” are defined more by social practices than by digital tools, how should educators rethink assessment? Are we measuring skills—or participation, collaboration, and meaning-making? (Knobel & Lankshear, 2014)
#EDU800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
#EDU800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
November 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If “new literacies” are defined more by social practices than by digital tools, how should educators rethink assessment? Are we measuring skills—or participation, collaboration, and meaning-making? (Knobel & Lankshear, 2014)
#EDU800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
#EDU800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
March 24, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Still new to Bluesky—and to using social media as a space for academic reflection. Posting, replying, and connecting here has turned theory into dialogue. It’s been a learning curve, but also a reminder that digital literacies grow through participation.
#edu800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies
#edu800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Still new to Bluesky—and to using social media as a space for academic reflection. Posting, replying, and connecting here has turned theory into dialogue. It’s been a learning curve, but also a reminder that digital literacies grow through participation.
#edu800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies
#edu800fall25 #DigitalLiteracies
Still time to submit your contribution to this new, exciting conference exploring critical perspectives on Research in Digital Learning. hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/ (Sep. 3-4, in Newcastle, UK)
#digitaleducation #digitalliteracies #digitalresearch
#digitaleducation #digitalliteracies #digitalresearch
RIDLHE Conference -
Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education is a new conference, launching on 3rd-4th September 2025 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Still time to submit your contribution to this new, exciting conference exploring critical perspectives on Research in Digital Learning. hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/ (Sep. 3-4, in Newcastle, UK)
#digitaleducation #digitalliteracies #digitalresearch
#digitaleducation #digitalliteracies #digitalresearch
I came across the phrase "cognitive wallpaper" yesterday, and it unlocked a whole cascade of thoughts which has resulted in me announcing my first zine, coming Q3 2026:
blog.dougbelshaw.com/cognitive-wa...
#zines #DigitalLiteracies #Attention #ProductiveFriction
blog.dougbelshaw.com/cognitive-wa...
#zines #DigitalLiteracies #Attention #ProductiveFriction
May 13, 2026 at 10:34 AM
I came across the phrase "cognitive wallpaper" yesterday, and it unlocked a whole cascade of thoughts which has resulted in me announcing my first zine, coming Q3 2026:
blog.dougbelshaw.com/cognitive-wa...
#zines #DigitalLiteracies #Attention #ProductiveFriction
blog.dougbelshaw.com/cognitive-wa...
#zines #DigitalLiteracies #Attention #ProductiveFriction
Research alert: How do Taylor Swift fans talk about learning English through music? Our study explores Reddit discussions to show how Swifties report learning and playful language socialization through fandom.
#TaylorSwift #Swifties #LanguageLearning #DigitalLiteracies #AppliedLinguistics Ref below
#TaylorSwift #Swifties #LanguageLearning #DigitalLiteracies #AppliedLinguistics Ref below
April 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Research alert: How do Taylor Swift fans talk about learning English through music? Our study explores Reddit discussions to show how Swifties report learning and playful language socialization through fandom.
#TaylorSwift #Swifties #LanguageLearning #DigitalLiteracies #AppliedLinguistics Ref below
#TaylorSwift #Swifties #LanguageLearning #DigitalLiteracies #AppliedLinguistics Ref below
Mills (2010) reminds us that literacy is multimodal—visual, spatial, and interactive. As AI reshapes how students create and communicate, how can we help them move from consuming media to designing meaning?
#edu800fall25 #Mills #DigitalLiteracies #AIinEducation
#edu800fall25 #Mills #DigitalLiteracies #AIinEducation
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Mills (2010) reminds us that literacy is multimodal—visual, spatial, and interactive. As AI reshapes how students create and communicate, how can we help them move from consuming media to designing meaning?
#edu800fall25 #Mills #DigitalLiteracies #AIinEducation
#edu800fall25 #Mills #DigitalLiteracies #AIinEducation
Leander & Burriss (2020) explore what it means to teach with machines. As AI and algorithms shape how knowledge is formed, how can educators ensure technology amplifies—not replaces—human connection and critical thought?
#edu800fall25 #Leander #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracies
#edu800fall25 #Leander #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracies
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Leander & Burriss (2020) explore what it means to teach with machines. As AI and algorithms shape how knowledge is formed, how can educators ensure technology amplifies—not replaces—human connection and critical thought?
#edu800fall25 #Leander #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracies
#edu800fall25 #Leander #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracies
What was it like becoming a parent for the first time during a global pandemic? Read our findings, based on over 300 individual accounts, open access in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth doi.org/10.1186/s128... #parenting #pandemic #digitalliteracies
Becoming a new parent during the pandemic: experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
New parenthood in ordinary times can be a vulnerable and unpredictable time. The Covid-19 pandemic brought additional, unprecedented changes to policy and practice that drastically impacted on the exp...
doi.org
January 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What was it like becoming a parent for the first time during a global pandemic? Read our findings, based on over 300 individual accounts, open access in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth doi.org/10.1186/s128... #parenting #pandemic #digitalliteracies
Everyone wants “frictionless” experiences. But what if some friction is exactly what helps us stay awake at the wheel?
blog.dougbelshaw.com/productive-f...
#UX #DigitalLiteracies #Design #Pedagogy #LearningDesign
blog.dougbelshaw.com/productive-f...
#UX #DigitalLiteracies #Design #Pedagogy #LearningDesign
How a little “productive friction” protects human agency
Sometimes the highest good is not an uninterrupted flow from intention to completion. Sometimes the more human outcome – the one that promotes agency – is the one that introduces a pause that's long e...
blog.dougbelshaw.com
April 24, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Everyone wants “frictionless” experiences. But what if some friction is exactly what helps us stay awake at the wheel?
blog.dougbelshaw.com/productive-f...
#UX #DigitalLiteracies #Design #Pedagogy #LearningDesign
blog.dougbelshaw.com/productive-f...
#UX #DigitalLiteracies #Design #Pedagogy #LearningDesign
4th grade AE Reading students read Eat This! by Andrea Curtis. Demonstrating an understanding of marketing unhealthy products to children, students created advergames and food commercials. #EduSky ##EduSkyIL #digitalliteracies #multimodal #alternativeassessment #collaboration #engagement
January 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
4th grade AE Reading students read Eat This! by Andrea Curtis. Demonstrating an understanding of marketing unhealthy products to children, students created advergames and food commercials. #EduSky ##EduSkyIL #digitalliteracies #multimodal #alternativeassessment #collaboration #engagement
The “digital turn” redefines literacy as multimodal, networked, and social. In EDU800, I’m exploring how platforms like Engageli and Canvas become spaces of meaning-making where students connect and create (Mills, 2010).
#EDU800 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
#EDU800 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The “digital turn” redefines literacy as multimodal, networked, and social. In EDU800, I’m exploring how platforms like Engageli and Canvas become spaces of meaning-making where students connect and create (Mills, 2010).
#EDU800 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
#EDU800 #DigitalLiteracies #EdTech #OnlineLearning
'View source' taught a generation how the web worked. There's no equivalent with AI: just a prompt, an output, and an impenetrable statistical model in between.
So what now? I've been thinking through that here: blog.dougbelshaw.com/after-web-li...
#DigitalLiteracies #AILiteracy #WebLiteracy
So what now? I've been thinking through that here: blog.dougbelshaw.com/after-web-li...
#DigitalLiteracies #AILiteracy #WebLiteracy
What comes after web literacy?
One way to think of digital literacies is not as a single competency or bundle of skills, but as a capacity to move between layers of abstraction. To be able to do this you require an awareness of the...
blog.dougbelshaw.com
May 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
'View source' taught a generation how the web worked. There's no equivalent with AI: just a prompt, an output, and an impenetrable statistical model in between.
So what now? I've been thinking through that here: blog.dougbelshaw.com/after-web-li...
#DigitalLiteracies #AILiteracy #WebLiteracy
So what now? I've been thinking through that here: blog.dougbelshaw.com/after-web-li...
#DigitalLiteracies #AILiteracy #WebLiteracy
I write about learning, technology, systems, and open recognition, and share that work freely through Open Thinkering and related projects.
If you would like to support this, here is how: blog.dougbelshaw.com/support-my-w...
#OpenThinkering #OpenRecognition #DigitalLiteracies
If you would like to support this, here is how: blog.dougbelshaw.com/support-my-w...
#OpenThinkering #OpenRecognition #DigitalLiteracies
March 27, 2026 at 8:02 AM
I write about learning, technology, systems, and open recognition, and share that work freely through Open Thinkering and related projects.
If you would like to support this, here is how: blog.dougbelshaw.com/support-my-w...
#OpenThinkering #OpenRecognition #DigitalLiteracies
If you would like to support this, here is how: blog.dougbelshaw.com/support-my-w...
#OpenThinkering #OpenRecognition #DigitalLiteracies
This is why it's important to fact-check 😱 #generativeai #criticalevaluation #digitalliteracies www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist
Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is why it's important to fact-check 😱 #generativeai #criticalevaluation #digitalliteracies www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How come books are 'luxury items' now?
Using mcluhan's tetrad to think through media obsolescence, what happens when secondary orality overheats, and why "digital dementia" might be the reversal we should've seen coming.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/books-luxury...
#MediaTheory #DigitalLiteracies
Using mcluhan's tetrad to think through media obsolescence, what happens when secondary orality overheats, and why "digital dementia" might be the reversal we should've seen coming.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/books-luxury...
#MediaTheory #DigitalLiteracies
Why books are now luxury goods
A tetrad explainer about media, luxury, and what happens when secondary orality reverses.
blog.dougbelshaw.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:28 AM
How come books are 'luxury items' now?
Using mcluhan's tetrad to think through media obsolescence, what happens when secondary orality overheats, and why "digital dementia" might be the reversal we should've seen coming.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/books-luxury...
#MediaTheory #DigitalLiteracies
Using mcluhan's tetrad to think through media obsolescence, what happens when secondary orality overheats, and why "digital dementia" might be the reversal we should've seen coming.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/books-luxury...
#MediaTheory #DigitalLiteracies
Emily Segal's "tasteslop" is AI-generated work that looks tasteful but is stripped of the social relations that make taste meaningful.
I think it has an obvious parallel in education.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/literacy-slop/
#DigitalLiteracies #AI #EdTech
I think it has an obvious parallel in education.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/literacy-slop/
#DigitalLiteracies #AI #EdTech
Literacy-slop
AI is a tool that allows us to create shortcuts, but point is to be able to judge whether the shortcuts take us anywhere useful. Just as humans are the ultimate arbiters of taste, so we are the ultima...
blog.dougbelshaw.com
May 6, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Emily Segal's "tasteslop" is AI-generated work that looks tasteful but is stripped of the social relations that make taste meaningful.
I think it has an obvious parallel in education.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/literacy-slop/
#DigitalLiteracies #AI #EdTech
I think it has an obvious parallel in education.
blog.dougbelshaw.com/literacy-slop/
#DigitalLiteracies #AI #EdTech
Wondering how someone can use AI as part of their writing/publishing workflow without just copy/pasting?
I've written up my current process with screenshots, chat transcript, and original LLM draft:
blog.dougbelshaw.com/authentic-ai...
#AI #WritingPractice #DigitalLiteracies
I've written up my current process with screenshots, chat transcript, and original LLM draft:
blog.dougbelshaw.com/authentic-ai...
#AI #WritingPractice #DigitalLiteracies
My 7-step approach for authentic AI-assisted blogging
Posts I publish here are mine. I'm holding myself accountable for them, and you too should hold me to that, even if AI was involved in the process.
blog.dougbelshaw.com
March 20, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Wondering how someone can use AI as part of their writing/publishing workflow without just copy/pasting?
I've written up my current process with screenshots, chat transcript, and original LLM draft:
blog.dougbelshaw.com/authentic-ai...
#AI #WritingPractice #DigitalLiteracies
I've written up my current process with screenshots, chat transcript, and original LLM draft:
blog.dougbelshaw.com/authentic-ai...
#AI #WritingPractice #DigitalLiteracies
Very pleased Suzanne Srdarov & my new #openaccess article "ChatGPT Isn’t Magic: The Hype and Hypocrisy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Rhetoric" is out in @snurb.bsky.social's M/C Journal today.
journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc... #generativeAI #ChatGPT #digitalliteracies
journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc... #generativeAI #ChatGPT #digitalliteracies
October 4, 2023 at 1:00 AM
Very pleased Suzanne Srdarov & my new #openaccess article "ChatGPT Isn’t Magic: The Hype and Hypocrisy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Rhetoric" is out in @snurb.bsky.social's M/C Journal today.
journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc... #generativeAI #ChatGPT #digitalliteracies
journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc... #generativeAI #ChatGPT #digitalliteracies
This is an issue that @carlbergstrom.com and colleagues have flagged as both critically important and poorly understood.
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
March 11, 2024 at 4:45 AM
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I highly recommend taking @dajb on his coffee chat offer, it was super productive to just toss ideas. And here's to hat tipping becoming a Thing
https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/r/uznsdcuxtwwoo4jxsbxy
https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/r/uznsdcuxtwwoo4jxsbxy
Doug Belshaw (@dajb@social.coop)
447 Posts, 2.1K Following, 2.58K Followers · "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @WeAreOpenCoop@mastodon.social, author/editor of @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space, and occasional collaborator with the @bonfire@indieweb.social project. Previously: @mozilla@mozilla.social / @moodle@openedtech.social / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects #OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalLiteracies #ProductiveAmbiguity #SystemsThinking
social.coop
April 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I highly recommend taking @dajb on his coffee chat offer, it was super productive to just toss ideas. And here's to hat tipping becoming a Thing
https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/r/uznsdcuxtwwoo4jxsbxy
https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/r/uznsdcuxtwwoo4jxsbxy