MYFest Schedule: All Years

AI is reshaping education, threatening critical thinking through cognitive offloading. Teachers must redesign tasks to embed iterative thinking, from planning and prompting to evaluating and defending, ensuring students engage deeply with AI rather than surrender their thinking to it. The goal is not to restrict AI but to reposition it as a tool that supports but never replaces student thinking.

Join me for a short calming and reflective journaling session designed to help you reconnect and recharge. Through thoughtfully written prompts and individual quiet reflection time, we’ll journal about gratitude, self-love, loving-kindness and wellbeing. Whether you’re a long-tome journaler or just getting started, this space invites you to slow down, tune in and leave feeling lighter, clearer and more connected. Bring a notebook, an open heart and come just as you are.

In this highly interactive session, we will explore craft and material practice as a form of identity- and meaning-making. In community and through discussion of personal experience and craft pedagogy theory, we will explore crafting as a liberatory practice. This is a space where everyone is considered a crafter, regardless of skill level or access to materials.

The first version of Haiku Games was created for MYFest 2025. Now the games are back, new and improved, with a wider range of ways [...]

Teaching with a chronic illness means belonging to a profession that demands always being “on” while navigating a body that needs constant rest, stillness, and care. This facilitated reflective workshop uses prompted free writing and open discussion to examine that tension honestly and to build practical strategies for teaching with greater agency and resilience. It welcomes educators living this experience and those who want to support them.

In the middle of busy days, even a few moments of stillness can make a big difference. This recurring 10 minute guided meditation offers a space to pause, breathe, be mindful and gently reconnect with yourself. Whether you are new to meditation, looking to build a steady practice or long-time meditator, you’ll be guided through a calming experience designed to reduce stress and help enhance your presence. Come as you are – no prior experience needed, just a willingness to slow down and be.

Put aside 15-20 minutes when you chose for no stakes creative challenge that is pure fun. Since January 8, 2012 the Daily Create (https://daily.ds106.us/) published each day a media creation challenge meant as playful thing to do and also to explore online creative tools. For MYFest 2026, this is an ongoing activity in July and August. You can find the newest one each day added to our Discord channel where participants share and cheer on each other's responses. Or join us for our drop in Create Together sessions where we can brainstorm ideas, and create/share together.

Can a machine make us feel seen, understood, or cared for? This session explores the psychology behind our growing attachment to AI, examining how technologies designed to respond like humans can activate powerful emotional connections and reshape the way we think about relationships, intimacy, and belonging.

An interactive critical AI literacy workshop that uses the concept of khilafa (stewardship) as a framework for thinking about AI responsibility, guided by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's visionary story "Sultana's Dream.”The workshop offers practical tools for understanding AI systems while centering values of justice, accountability, and collective wisdom.

You are invited to join a space for collective reflection on inclusive teaching where we also explore strategies for making this work practical. We introduce the Enabling Accessible Blended Learning for Equity (ENABLE) framework and share case studies of inclusive teaching from our South African higher education context. Come curious!

In this session, we use the term Vibe Accessibility to describe accessibility practices that prioritize automation over genuine understanding. We argue that when access becomes automated, it reduces access literacy, diminishes collective responsibility, and ultimately leads to access-washing.

The aim of this series of sessions is to create a safe space in community with one another to engage in healing conversations around topics of import to our individual and collective well-being. Topics are intended to address issues common to the human experience in these trying times. The hope is that these sessions invite introspection and dialogue to deepen connection and solidarity, and inspire hope, healing and transformation. For this session we will discuss the topic: Embracing vulnerability for building connection and belonging.

Join me for a short calming and reflective journaling session designed to help you reconnect and recharge. Through thoughtfully written prompts and individual quiet reflection time, we’ll journal about gratitude, self-love, loving-kindness and wellbeing. Whether you’re a long-tome journaler or just getting started, this space invites you to slow down, tune in and leave feeling lighter, clearer and more connected. Bring a notebook, an open heart and come just as you are.

Power Walk is an interactive activity that invites us to explore privilege, opportunity, access, identity and inequality through movement and reflection (well, this being an online session, we will find a way to have the movement).

In the middle of busy days, even a few moments of stillness can make a big difference. This recurring 10 minute guided meditation offers a space to pause, breathe, be mindful and gently reconnect with yourself. Whether you are new to meditation, looking to build a steady practice or long-time meditator, you’ll be guided through a calming experience designed to reduce stress and help enhance your presence. Come as you are – no prior experience needed, just a willingness to slow down and be.

Join us for an exploratory conversation about how the emergence of generative AI technologies in educational spaces may be affecting our relationships—with each other, with other entities, with social and ecological systems, with AI tools themselves, and even with ourselves. Through guided prompting, thought-provoking questions and short activities, we will reflect on and share ideas about the implications of Generative AI on how we understand and form relationships.

Join me for a short calming and reflective journaling session designed to help you reconnect and recharge. Through thoughtfully written prompts and individual quiet reflection time, we’ll journal about gratitude, self-love, loving-kindness and wellbeing. Whether you’re a long-tome journaler or just getting started, this space invites you to slow down, tune in and leave feeling lighter, clearer and more connected. Bring a notebook, an open heart and come just as you are.