Love this piece in USA Today: prepping K12 students to understand newsfeed bias is crucial & under-addressed. We have a full chapter on it in Gram & Gran—about a screwball amusement park that only has ring toss booths! (gramandgran.com if you’re curious about teaching media literacy to kids) #tlsky

A lovely meditation on how children's literature teaches us how to breathe.

As a thought experiment, it's interesting to think about what other words you might substitute for "bias" here and how calling it bias functions to frame discussions about culture, narrative, cognition.

"We teach students, not subjects" - Bryan Dewsbury

Just beautiful

@stevechiger.bsky.social re: our secret project

I like it when Ginsberg asks "why can't I go to the supermarket and buy what I want with my good looks?" He's real for that.

Came across a fun bit of marginalia from Darwin’s personal library: In a copy of “Principles of Geology”, Lyell argues that animal varieties can change over time, but never deviate enough to form new species. “If this were true,” Darwin scrawls in the margin, “adios theory”.

also, never forget that teaching evaluations are more about bias than evaluation. benschmidt.org/profGender/#...

I feel like there's a particular kind of challenge here. Maybe it's generational? Idk, but for me, anyway, there's a strong bias towards assuming that things like app notifications are "transparent" i.e. that what the notification tells you accurately reflects the thing it's notifying you about. 1/

That's how most of #earlymodern printed books were offered and consumed in Europe: unbound, likely not stab-stitched, usually just slightly folded. Say hello to the world of quartos and octavos, small and cheap prints, #Flugpublizistik, street literature, etc. Forget about bound books and libraries.

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Never forget

Teaching, especially in reading and writing, is a process of successive approximation. It often means teaching a simplified or incomplete version of a skill in order to support students as they learn other elements of that skill. A classic example is the "5 paragraph essay." There are different 1/

"I inevitably spend the first few weeks undoing the damage the A.P. system does to how students understand both writing and the study of literature." Hmm. I have something to say about this and maybe I will. Wish I could save drafts.

My favorite things about Early Modern animals is how they all wear a look somewhere between discomfort and hypnosis.

Cool. One of my favorite follows on Twitter, here now.

Taking this further, the person you're going to receive that misinformation from isn't going to be a disreputable scoundrel or even the NYT, it's going to be someone you love who has your best interests at heart. All this attention and energy spent barring the windows when the doors are wide open.

White Noise didn't get everything right, but it got a lot right, repeatedly, e.g.: "Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in."

"As a social historian of magic" = hitting that follow button so fast it might as well be magic

Hey hey DC! Tonight at Rhizome in DC we got two films by @danielbachman.bsky.social. The music is excellent and, as LA burns, as timely as ever. You can also watch from your own home. Check it, and dig: www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...

Feedback is education. Do something, see a result, have the result explained to you, try again. It is wild to me that there are teachers who treat this process as an embarrassing ritual or meaningless observation instead of the heart of learning.

What happened with the NYT digital workers thing? Can I go back to my crosswords?

I co-wrote a book about media literacy and misinformation so it's maybe a little risky to say this, but I think we often fail to recognize some of the emotional structure underpinning the support of misinformational practices. This is, perhaps, because we tend to focus on the ways that 1/

Say it ain’t so, Australia! 👇🏼Especially not when your own rockstar @loueee.bsky.social has illustrated a wonderful kids’ book about it. Check out gramandgran.com if you’re interested — @hibitus-habitus.bsky.social and I have tested these jokes in multiple hemispheres and can confirm you’ll chuckle!

In therapist's offices too.

Marcel Broodthaers, English Series, 1972 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137334

I think @tedunderwood.me had a pretty good point about how these kinds of critiques miss the boat: they're working on old models, but current models are already much better at the stuff that gen AI supposedly sucks at. The technology is rapidly "improving." The long term challenges of AI aren't...1/

Yes! And if you are a school librarian in ES or MS who thinks we shouldn’t wait until HS to teach #medialiteracy, message @hibitus-habitus.bsky.social and I! We wrote Gram & Gran precisely for this reason. Created by educators, endorsed by experts, & made w/ kids & teachers at heart. #edusky #TLSky

Yep. Single most important media/AI approach @stevechiger.bsky.social and I cover in "Gram and Gran Save The Universe" is humility.

The journey of this article is you read the headline and you think they're going to use AI to write 8000 books, which would be bad enough. But actually they're going to use AI to proofread and edit manuscripts sent to them by authors, which is even worse. It's bad enough to use AI for writing but 1/

No offense intended but if you mostly post about politics I won't follow you because I already have enough politics in my feed. But if you have any friends that are deeply knowledgeable about obscure subjects please send them my way.

More timeline cleansing. I make images, sometimes. I wouldn't call them art. Anyway, I've been doing it a lot less time than making music, but here, look at some things instead of reading about [redacted]. 🧵👁️

Timeline cleanse time. I’ve been making music for a long time but I pretty much never share it. Today seems as good a day as any to dump it into the ether when nobody’s paying attention. A thread of odd sounds. 🧵👂

If you see this, I invite you to post a picture from (whatever device you're using) without explanation.

Squirrel Daddy is Milkshake Ducking in record time

this is so funny, I can't stop watching it

In case you're wondering what maga is going with for their closing message two days before the election, it's "Kamala killed P'nut the squirrel and here are some stale memes about it."

things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly – ugly things will get less ugly inevitably hopefully Terrance Hayes, "American Sonnet for the New Year" #everynightapoem

My favorite pun in Gram and Gran Save The Summer.

As a person both professionally interested in bs, and personally appreciative of chutzpah, I find this delightful.

Good read. One interesting aspect of technical advancement is that a large number of new tech users grew up without it, and I think that makes it hard to truly see the effects. Like I think NotebookLM is cool but also I would never think of it as the basis of a good education because nobody ever 1/

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My magical power is predicting the past.

One of my favorite chapters that @stevechiger.bsky.social and I wrote for Gram and Gran Save the Universe (GramandGran.com) is a chapter on expert testimony so I enjoyed this example in the wild. The first screenshot here is a preamble to the writer discussing the future of AI (the rest are G&G). 1/

I donate monthly to ProPublica. Especially if, like me, you're one of the quarter of a million people who unsubscribed from the Post, you should too. Read this article if you feel like you've forgotten what great investigative journalism looks like.

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A thing I believe is that when you die you get to know everybody's usernames and where they posted