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Tuesday

NOTE: Monday, May 11, 10am: It’s back up! See below for some links to news coverage and commentary.

NOTE: Friday, May 8, 12 noon: Canvas is down! Ha! I swear I didn’t plan this! But could the timing be better? Obviously you can’t log in to do the Marachi and Quill reading, but fortunately it is available on the open web, so you can read it here (though without annotations, alas).

Edtech

Brian Merchant, “‘If AI Is Writing the Work and AI Is Reading the
Work, Do We Even Need to Be There at All?’ Education Workers Reveal a
Growing Crisis on Campus and off,” November 28, 2025,
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/if-ai-is-writing-the-work-and-ai

Roxana Marachi and Lawrence Quill, “The Case of Canvas: Longitudinal
Datafication through Learning Management Systems,” Teaching in Higher
Education 25, no. 4 (2020): 418–34.

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions (American Association of
University Professors, 2025), https://www.aaup.org/reports-publications/aaup-policies-reports/topical-reports/artificial-intelligence-and-academic.

In-class activities

Today’s slides

Additional links

On THE Canvas HACK

“Cyberattack shuts down Bruin Learn, targets thousands of schools” (Daily Bruin)

Bryan Alexander: “The Great 2026 Canvas-opocalypse”

“‘The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History’: Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech” (404 Media)

“The Canvas Breach is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle” (Wired)

On AI/EDTECH and education

“What does AI do?: university management and technologies of crisis” (Dan Greene, AAUP)

“In Backlash Against Tech in Schools, Parents Are Winning Rollbacks” (New York Times)

“The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble” (podcast)

“‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI” (The Guardian)

Thursday

Data Journalism

Guest: Jill Castellano, Marshall Project

Anne Ryman et al., “The Wall: An in-Depth Examination of Donald Trump’s Border Wall,” USA Today, September 29, 2017. (Be sure to pay attention to “About this Report.”)

Shoshana Walter and Jill Castellano, “Tens of Thousands of Mothers Were Flagged to Police Over Flawed Drug Tests at Childbirth,” The Marshall Project, February 10, 2026; and Jill Castellano and Shoshana Walter, “How We Tracked Reports to Police About Drug Use During Pregnancy,” Methodology, The Marshall Project, February 10, 2026.

Jill Castellano, “How Trump’s Policies Hide Information on the Criminal Justice System,” The Marshall Project, May 3, 2025.