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Every week, you’ll read a deeply researched (but always readable!) essay about the troubled relationship between our technologies and our classrooms — and some strategies to make less toxic choices. We’ll share up-to-date thinking from around the globe.

Connect

In the comments sections and in live-online sessions, you’ll meet other people who care about these issues, from TRU and around the world. And if you want to share your own expertise, there’s space to contribute your long-form thoughts and become a part of our Detox experience!

Plan

Let’s understand what makes the current technology landscape so toxic and make a plan for how to choose and engage with our tools more ethically. We can do better once we understand what drives the inequities and harms in our current system.

What to Expect When You’re Digitally Detoxing

This is not an abstinence detox: we know you have to live, work, teach, and learn with technology, and we want to help you make that relationship less toxic.

For the month of February, you’ll get three essays a week that explore one troubling technology in a higher education context. We’ll talk about learning analytics, bossware for learning, algorithmic test proctoring, learning management systems, homework systems, “inclusive access,” and what making different choices can look like as we move forward.

And there will be oppoortunities to connect “live,” across distance, to talk and plan.

All members of the TRU community and beyond are welcome to join in our conversation. Register by 31 January to ensure you receive every update.

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TRU Digital Detox 2024

Posts will appear here through the Detox period and will be archived on this site thereafter.