"Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social

We pause to honor the extraordinary contributions of Dr. Kylene Beers to NCTE and the literacy field. Kylene spurred our leadership forward at every turn. Many recognize her as a giant, and she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and as a proud member of the Middle Level section.

Or both at the same time.

How can we redesign multiliteracies to navigate today’s complex, racialized, and digital landscapes? Find out in @nashb.bsky.social and Allison Skerrett's article in the Spring 2025 issue of #HarvardEdReview: https://bit.ly/42oYfCS

Made this purely for memes, if this becomes true, I demand to be made into a prophet.

Despite all of the lunacy, I'm excited to share this essay written with my colleague and mentor Allison Skerrett. We look back at #multiliteracies and ask: What kinds of agency are possible today? The 1996 article is being reprinted alongside a new commentary from Cope and Kalantzis. DM for PDF!

Come join us for a free workshop (with free food) at #AERA2025. Feel free to message me with questions!

Really like this framing: "since we can't witness everything ourselves..." Our basic concepts of what is real or happening depend upon our trust in social groups (eg, scientists, reporters) we have learned to assume are relatively correct. Who we trust, what we read/watch/etc. becomes reality.

In Cindy Pon's speculative novels Want and Rise, a fascist government and technology oligarchs conspire to destroy the environment so they can sell technologies that assuage the impacts of pollution. So teenagers become ecoterrorists. What can we learn from them? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There is always available an existential question about whether your actions matter given the giant scope of how things change. What you do does matter even as the world turns though. Great thread from Cody.

I know TikTok aren’t “the good guys” here. Like any massive platform created to addict us, surveil us, & harvest our attention for digital dollars, it is built on extractive logics that are bad. But god damn—people did amazing stuff on there. Has Instagram Reels ever given us something like this?

We cover how a strategically timed pre-election lawsuit is reemerging in North Carolina to create a lever for throwing out results after an election-deniers’ preferred candidate lost. Read and share www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-ste...

100%.The prioritizing of narrative and emotional attachments to ideas, people, etc. when those attachments conflict with true information also isn't some strange aberration or the possession of one incorrect group, it's the way people make sense of the world.

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

Premise for a Don't Look Up sequel?

Yes. Constant mistaking the products of thought for thought itself. +The idea that the only thing you need to do yourself is construct the actual words (to create ownership of it). A lot of suggestions for having #AI brainstorm research topics, outlines, arguments. This is the thinking and learning!

History of edtech and automation is that actually teacher time is rarely reduced. Rensfeldt, A. B., & Rahm, L. (2023). Automating Teacher Work? A History of the Politics of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Education. Postdigital Science and Education, 5(1), 25–43. doi.org/10.1007/s424...

Hey #LRA paid members. We need more signatures to better support organizational transparency. www.change.org/p/amend-byla...

@alexbacalja.bsky.social has been leading the charge of bringing Postdigital perspectives to bear on gaming literacies. Join the party by contributing to a new edited collection. Builds on this piece in Postdigital Science and Education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It would be an interesting #medialiteracy activity to compare/contrast politicians' or commenters' free speech rhetoric with actions/policies, maybe a mix and match of actions (banning books, regulating speech you disagree with, etc.) with expressed values. #edusky

We have long known that "emotion = distribution" www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/like... In a paper published in 2010/11, our @gruzd.ca, S. Dorion & @philipmai.com showed that content w/strong emotional valence gets more engagement. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/571...

We're likely to enter a world in which every possible human interaction is replaced with good-enough-for-the-moment mechanized interaction, regardless the problems. I imagine this world will subtly but deeply increase systemic alienation + our feelings of being separated and isolated and alone.

This is dope. ♥️

Among the most important critiques of GAI embedding everywhere is that it encourages a situation where human interaction is a luxury not an expectation. We are humans. we need human interaction. And human care. These tools encourage an outsourcing of self that we should not accept.

Maybe @d-lite-ncte.bsky.social can take this starter pack over and add more commission members?

I just learned how to make a starter pack! How neat is that? Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/98FHS2C

Find your next great read, and let us know your favorite books about #Appalachia or by #Appalachian authors www.appli.org/appli-...#Appalachia#Appalachian/2

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap

Taylor Owen, Director of The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University, writes that the merger of state and tech power is a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.

For @nepc.bsky.social, I reviewed the new Bellwether report on AI in K-12 education. Tl;dr: as with much written on the topic, the report’s focus on AI’s projected benefits over empirical evidence re: known risks makes it of limited use for policy/practice. nepc.colorado.edu/review/learn...

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Our storytelling games roundtable at #NCTE2024 was a blast! Presenters shared games to integrate, interactive narratives, suggestions for using D&D in the classroom, and three (!) custom created roleplaying games for language learning, literature interpretation, and teacher ed.

You mean the purpose of school isn't to create profit for technology and testing companies?

Yup. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

About 15 years ago we started the #literacies chat over on the bird app. It provided so many meaningful conversations & connections over the years. This includes some of those people & others in the field. Let me know who else I can add (and follow!) as we work to rebuild here! go.bsky.app/HZLhPr

Fresh for #NCTE2024

Call for Papers: Issue #55: Beyond the ‘Crisis:’ Challenging the Politics and Practices of the Science of Reading radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/19/c...

Can't wait to see you all at #NCTE #NCTE2024 next week. Get in touch if you'll be there!

Going to #NCTE2024? Check our our presentation on students learning how to read interactive, branching multimodal narratives in the session, "How We Use Storytelling Games for Heart, Hope, and Humanity Friday" November 22nd at 3:30pm. @karismjones.bsky.social, @virginiak.bsky.social

For all job seekers, this English Education position in Michigan just came across my radar: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Horrifying. What would you say if you saw it in another country? www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/p...

When all the queer activists were shouting that books bans wouldn’t stop with queer themes, what Ryan is describing here is what they meant. This is why, like Ryan notes later in the thread, everyone needs to be against book bans.

Google has agreed to settle a $5bn class action lawsuit for invading the privacy of users by tracking them even when they were browsing in "private mode". https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67838384

North Carolina has been a wonderful place for our family. But if the state legislature doesn’t address issues like this, I worry the state won’t be nearly as wonderful for future families. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

In fiction AI embodies humanities capacity for wonder and sentimentality. In reality, AI is mostly a compendium of our most dominant biases.

Check out Roselit Bone. Dark as midnight gothic punk cinematic queer country rockabilly music. A David Lynch movie in song form. The best band you've never heard of. Recommend "Your Gun" to start. soundcloud.com/roselitbone #musiciansky #musicksy #lit #filmsky #horror #queerart #transwriters