Love to see @drtanksley.bsky.social absolutely rocking it & amplifying the voices of kids most directly harmed by the race to adopt AI in schools.

I think my love for these animals since I was like 6yo explains a lot about me as a person 😆😆

Reading some things, and I can’t help but wonder how the shrinking availability of grants, increased need for funding given economic shifts, and NSF promotion of AI is exacerbating the usual cycle of overly optimistic jumping onto the bandwagon of new tech with ill-conceived ideas?

If I want to buy my first 3D printer, to be used by me for random crafting & organizing purposes & for my 9yo who is alllllll about engineering stuff….what is my best bet? Thinking Bambu but do I go P2S or X2D? This would be my 40th birthday present to myself 😁

Have tried to disconnect my work from my identity in small ways, like using my real name instead of my old ‘dontworryteach’ handle…but I’m pretty sure I couldn’t tell you the real names of like 90% of people from OG teacher twitter in the 2010s so I dunno why I expect anyone to know mine 😅

‘Somehow’ have way more time for my research as a 50% employee of someone else’s research center than when I was faculty teaching a 4/4…Ngl I kinda forgot how much I love it. Now if I could only figure out how to get everything done in the 4 hours of camp available per day? 🫠

"Our study of school websites suggests that such technoskepticism is being communicated by tuition-dependent Waldorf schools but is largely absent from the discourse of neighboring public schools,” write Katie Day Good, Anna Perkins, and Cosette Gunter-Stratton.

Thinking of the people of Venezuela and their loved ones. "The earthquakes were a magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, according to a U.S. monitoring agency. People in the stricken area said that buildings collapsed and electricity was knocked out, including in the capital, Caracas."

I feel like @karismjones.bsky.social would be proud of me for trying out D&D last night…and currently be heading out to buy a dice tower because I am nothing if not a fan of fun accessories 😅 hitting up Guild House on Father’s Day seems appropriate.

If you can, please donate. ILSSA does amazing work for students, postdocs, and recently graduated students in learning sciences — including providing financial support to help people participate. If this society has nurtured you, please nurture it in return. #ISLS26

Ok, I'm glad I got my butt to #ISLS26 for the 8am sessions, if nothing else because @wargojon.bsky.social just quoted a kid saying "plants don't poop" during a conference presentation. ps: are you sure you weren't in my kid's classroom in socal for this study? Cause he is totally Clyde 😆

I am not built for 8am sessions. How did I ever teach at 7:45 AM every morning!? so not a fan.

Apparently I only remember to go on Bluesky during conferences. Hiiiii #ISLS26 !!

Was not prepared for the number of students who cry in my office as a professor. Not in a grade grubbing way, but just in a life is hard way. And being the professor who is understanding & open with my own mental health & disabilities means I think I get more of it than the avg? I am Le tired.

I think the problem with higher education is the fact that universities are being run like corporations, with all the shite that comes along with it, without the actual manpower or higher pay that make corporate work tolerable.

Sometimes I think I really missed the boat on switching to DH from Education like 10 years ago when I was working for Center for DH at UCLA & playing around with mapping archives of yearbooks/student leaders at a HS in east LA with census results to 'see' diversity in community & educational spaces

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Can apparently only get my kid to school 30 mins early or 5 min late soooo guess he’s going to have extra playground time every morning.

But seriously, is it too much to ask the all these comply-in-advance cowards to fucking get the message? No one wants this, and we will fight to keep our democracy.

Showed one of my credential students the #sschat archives yesterday & he was flabbergasted at all the amazing resources we shared over those ~10 years. Good reminder of the power of social media community before it became monetized & branded.

Y’all I could not remember the word “canals” today when talking about industrialization in the US 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Why did it just take me literally 20 minutes to remember Seymour Papert's name!?!? ahhhh

Had the most f’d up dreams after hearing about the crash in the Potomac right before bed.

Underrated thing I miss from grad school for sure. Now I just gotta channel this vibe with my undergrads next week for first week of classes!

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.

if you cared about morale and recruitment you would not alienate a group that disproportionately enlists into the military, but if you are a white nationalist…

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

I am working with colleagues to develop a sharable resource for education leaders about how to respond to immigration efforts in schools. If you work for or in a school district that has put out public resources (especially protocols like this one drive.google.com/file/d/1zMId... ) please share!

Spending the day at UCI for the Mapping New Histories convening from UC Humanities Research Institute & UCI Teacher Institute/UCI History Project. Love the art in this land acknowledgment!

This morning NPR reported on Hochul’s proposed school cell phone ban. They said every stakeholder agrees with the ban: teachers, parents, and law enforcement. Notice a pretty large stakeholder missing from that group? How about kids? Time to reup this Pop Off!… www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social introducing the idea of Zombie Ideas in education at our winter faculty teaching conference--taking on Learning Styles as the first 'undead' idea. My pet peeve in pedagogy trainings!!

tfw you accidentally bring your personal computer...covered in radical stickers... to a work event on a notoriously conservative campus....😆

I don’t know what it says about me as a parent that my 7yo’s favorite song is Sucker for Pain by Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons….at least I got to emphasize again that just because words are used in a song doesn’t mean you’re allowed to say them…😬

Got to gift my labors of love (handmade needlepoint) to my MIL & aunt-in-law finally! Belize is my MIL happy place & she goes every year for her birthday so I knew as soon as I saw this canvas I had to make it for her!

Anyone seen good resource / reading on how to design materials for students - whether digital or analog - that utilize design principles to make great materials? Thinking about use of Canva & other tools in ways that are aesthetic but not accessible or easily used by students.

This is trench art, made by a soldier living the unbearable in 1916. When we face cataclysm, humans make art. It’s how we cope & protest, every kind of art, including ephemeral arts from rage baking to a game night. Hobbies are human hobbies are self-care hobbies are art hobbies are resistance!

My response below to Qs for this article on “Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event” in which my talk was one that made four Jewish students feel threatened bc I used the word genocide. Let’s unpack since they gave ADL the last word. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...

Applications are open! Tell your teacher friends to apply to join us in Chicago this summer. Rethinking the Gilded Age & Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, & Democracy. Summer Institute for Teachers. Chicago, July 6-25. $2850 stipend. Details & syllabus on the website. www.gildedandprogressive.com

Packing is the bane of my existence

Do you know a US-based STEM researcher interested in learning systematic review and meta-analysis? #MMARI2025 is accepting applications for our workshop in Washington, DC from May 19th - 23rd! Application deadline is 1/27/2025. Apply here: www.meta-analysis-research-institute.com/application

I will never believe a word that comes out of this man’s mouth. He has lived in VA for so long that his kid went to UVA as an in state student & barely has an apt in district. He is a disgrace for NJ & I cannot believe we haven’t defeated his punk ass in the 20+ years he’s been in the House 🤮🤮🤮

Pls join this little dude & I raising $$ to support Jewish Liberation Fund this Hanukkah. They give grants to nonprofit orgs that work towards a just world for ALL PEOPLES & are excluded from traditional Jewish philanthropy due to nationalist litmus tests secure.givelively.org/donate/jewis...

Check out this resource: Lessons 2 Go are inquiry-based, evidence-supported recommendations for lesson plans that help students understand what it happening in the world today.

I thank Nikki Giovanni for teaching us so much, and tonight, for this poem, which is never not relevant.

Why are there fireworks at 11pm on a random Saturday night?!