This is fun! A new paper by @suraju.bsky.social et al uses critical discourse analysis to see how people reacting to Heated Rivalry articulate how/whether queerness and hockey can coexist. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pals! It’s #GiveNOLA Day! I’m raising $$$ for the kid-DJs of Be Loud Studios! My goal: 100 unique donors (they’ll win EXTRA money!)! Donate as little as 10 USD if you have the will & want to support kids! Bonus: A kid-DJ may call you during their thank-a-thon today! www.givenola.org/story/f0tbbf

This conversation with @add-hawk.bsky.social about his new book The Score was a blast! We fully geek out on the nuances of play and games, how to deal with forced value capture (*cough* tenure), and why @haenyyoon.bsky.social is a game skeptic. Listen and share with anyone wrestling with metrics!

Hyped to share an article that just dropped in English Teaching: Practice and Critique. In it, we examine how participating children in the Coastal Climate Kids Collective "voiced" climate action through drawing & dreaming about new climate futures. Read it here! doi.org/10.1108/ETPC... #literacies

Inspired by the courage of the people of Minnesota, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg separately wrote and recorded songs of protest. Helluva way to put play to work! Music educator Dr. Patrick Schmidt joins Pop & Play to talk about protest music—also known as “music.”

Absolutely loved chairing this #LRA2025 panel - so much powerful child-centered #literacies research happening right now! Thank you @zach-ryan.bsky.social @brownellcassie.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social Mandy Shimizu and Haeny Yoon for sharing your brilliance!

Many congrats to Dr. @philnichols.bsky.social and team for receiving the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association conference! You can read the winning article here (ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) #literacies

Skipped some afternoon sessions to checkout Mile Hi Pickleball here in Denver #NCTE2025

Oh hey look! My other book was announced! This one was specifically written for pre-service and current teachers who want to bring the #learningsciences into their practice. I wrote the chapter on emotions and shoe horned critical LS into every crack possible. www.routledge.com/Introducing-...

Congrats to @brownellcassie.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE25 Media Literacy award! Whoo Hoo!

Going to #ncte25? Here’s a good place to start planning your schedule!

Dear #NCTE25 #NCTE2025 pals — just a reminder that it’s VERY easy to catch the train into the city! And it’s only $10! You can even download the RTD app and buy (AND activate!) your ticket on your phone! rtddenver.justride.tickets

If you need a break from the horrors of the world and have too-many political podcasts in your rotation, check out Pop & Play--a podcast about play, pop culture, and education. In this episode we explored the play of the Swiftie -- why friendship bracelets, boas, and innuendo can be so fun!

Alongside Dr. Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, I am co-editing a special issue of The Reading Teacher. Our topic, LGBTQ+ Literacies: Affirming Identities, Advancing Justice w/ Pre-K-6 Learners, is sure to be of interest to many & is SO NEEDED in these times! Manuscripts are due January 15, 2026! #literacies

Karen! I just shared the #playrevolution special issue with the shout-out to #literacies that came from you and your collaborators ❤️❤️❤️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

And that's all for this first #popplaypod live chat! Thanks for joining team--super fun! And I you haven't yet listened, check out our playdate with @brownellcassie.bsky.social and let us know what you think.

Let’s start easy for this Pop & Play live chat... Q1: For this first one, introduce yourself. Also tell us your favorite song from Life of a Showgirl and give us your best hot take about the album? Don’t forget to add #popplaypod to your quote reply!

We're doing it! Our first Pop & Play bsky live chat starts now! Follow along at #popplaypod or the feed below. Reply quote the questions and be sure to add #popplaypod to your response so others can easily find it. Here 😶 We 🫣 Goooo! 😱

2 hours we’re doing this! Have dinner. Finish your homework. Listen to Life of a Show Girl 2.5 times! Be back here at 9:15 ET for some #popplaypod chattin’

It’s spooky season! In today’s Pop & Play @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I talk about how the littles get enamored by scary culture even when they’re not entirely sure what it is.

We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!

In Season 6 we’re introducing, “play dates!” where @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I share a play experience and invite you to play along. Our first play date is listening to the new Taylor Swift album with @brownellcassie.bsky.social! #LifeofaShowgirl drops tomorrow. Listen and join us for a play date!

The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE

Here’s two and a half minutes of a CBS segment showing google’s new AI multiple choice and fake podcast machine, 10s of me saying maybe we should instead encourage children to value their own voice and creativity, and 5s of me awkwardly writing on a whiteboard.

The ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers is available on the ISLS website now! A dedicated annual meeting website is coming soon. www.isls.org/news/isls-20...

As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦

My latest piece, “From 'Todo sobre Mí' to 'All about We': Reading Children’s Visual Texts as Sights and Scenes of Critical Data Literacies,” just dropped! Check it, and a host of other awesome articles in the January 2025 issue of Language Arts! #literacies publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

Kyle P. Smith is a Rackham doctoral candidate who explores the pedagogical possibilities of LGBTQ+ young adult literature to talk across differences in the classroom. 🏳️‍🌈 Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj #WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool

Thanks, @umichgradschool.bsky.social for showcasing me and my work! It was an honor to discuss how my own past, both as a teacher and a student, led to my passions as a researcher. Glad to call @umich.edu and the #MarsalFamilySchoolOfEducation my home!

On this point, Haeny, @lmv.bsky.social, and I recorded a short Pop & Play episode recently on the GOP & DOGE cuts to science funding. We hope you'll share with friends, family, neighbors, or whoever might not understand why cutting scientific research matters!

Forgive one last bit of self promotion, but I've seen a lot of great work on play at #ISLS2025. If you haven't check out Pop & Play, take a listen. Might I recommend this episode where we interview Andrew Davenport, creator of the Teletubbies! bsky.app/profile/snow...

With #ISLS2025 just around the corner I'm excited to announce that I am once again shitposting on Whova

Before heading to Helsinki for #ISLS25, I’m spending a few days w/ global youth, politicians, activists, organizers, NGO leaders, lawyers, judges, & practitioners to discuss moving from talk to action in meaningfully implementing the UNCRC (Art. 12) in ways that don’t deprive children of liberty

🧵STEM ED Research: I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF. The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/

Happiest of birthdays to the cutest Garbage fan I know, @tylerwmartin.bsky.social ! 🥳🥳🥳

Two more days of fieldwork, but how many more days after I say goodbye until y’all think this stress-related eye twitch that started in early April might actually subside?? #TalesFromTheField

Though it is sad that the 5th season of Pop & Play has come to a close, now is a great time to go back and listen to episodes you missed. Teletubbies, Sesame Street, Story Pirates, Henry Jenkins... we had some bangers! Check them out here: tc.edu/popandplay

On this week's season finale of Pop & Play, find out how Earth is finally destroyed and how cats are involved. "What's poppin' at the end of the world: A story episode." share.transistor.fm/s/5fd8ab8b

We had a GREAT season of Pop & Play talking to creators of youth media! To close out, we put our hand to creating a new children's drama. The result is "Stairway to Riverworld," a story about friends, John Cena and the Rock, the end of the world, and balloons. www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...

#Literacies Pals & others! If you donate RIGHT NOW (or before you leave from work?!), you’ll likely get a call from a kid-DJ after 5:30 PM ET where they’ll personally thank you! So, donate $10 now, if you can! Only 57 more unique donors to go! #Please #Thanks www.givenola.org/fundraiser/D...

Friends! It's #GiveNOLADay! I still need 75 pals to donate $10 to Be Loud Studios before tonight (Tues., 5/6 @ 11:59 PM ET!). Can you help me by clicking the link below & giving $10 now to help amplify children's voices w/ #BeLoudStudios??? #literacies #radio #civics #education

Friends! It's #GiveNOLADay! I still need 75 pals to donate $10 to Be Loud Studios before tonight (Tues., 5/6 @ 11:59 PM ET!). Can you help me by clicking the link below and giving $10 now to help amplify children's voices w/ #BeLoudStudios??? www.givenola.org/fundraiser/D...

What are kids looking for in media? Something short. Or maybe long. Or maybe something that is "realistic". Or maybe something that is funny... This week we're talking with the most important scholars of children's media, kids! www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...

If you're at #AERA2025 come hang out with the Pop & Play crew on Saturday 3:20 MST to talk about podcasts as public scholarship. We'll share a bit about our process and think with you about the podcast YOU want to make! h/t to Paul Granger who made this amazing cover for UF 54-40

All of these podcasts will be featured in a session at #AERA2025 in a roundtable session: Podcasts as Public Scholarship: (Re)Imagining Theories in Everyday Life (Table 6) Now, more than ever, facility with multi-platform and transmediated communication that reaches broad(er) audiences is needed.

A suggestion for those presenting in roundtables at #AERA2025 (or other ed conferences): Don't try to emulate a paper session with a slide presentation, etc. Instead, consider sharing your findings in a handout that folx attending can follow along. It changes the vibe and works better for the format