Little excerpt from our upcoming book, The Society that Learns. The length and dedication to long, constructionist mentorship relationships we documented is very humbling. @pauloblikstein.bsky.social @luismn.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205227...

Table of Contents for our new book, coming July 21. The Society that Learns: Constructionism and Lifelong Learning in Thailand. Can I say how much I love our chapter titles? @pauloblikstein.bsky.social @luismn.bsky.social #constructionism #lifelonglearning mitpress.mit.edu/978026205227...

If you're attending #ISLS2026 virtually (or even in person), I'm looking for ~8 more volunteer hosts for breakout rooms. Fantastic opportunity to meet people, make connections, and support the community. DM me for the sign-up link. #LearningSciences

💸 Attending #ISLS2026 on a budget? Check out our Affordable Travel Crowdsourcing doc for tips, resources, and our Roommate Matching Spreadsheet — 2 people are still looking for roommates! Let's take care of each other 🤝 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Book cover reveal: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205227... July 2026! So proud of this book. @pauloblikstein.bsky.social

Published today—this paper is a joy: longitudinal, wonderful teacher, with her personal histories in crafting, computing, joy in student imagination, and invigorating new things situated within historical policy changes in CS. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mtFi7sfHz... 50 days for free

50 copies available! @luismn.bsky.social, myself & Yasmin Kafai: Understanding growth mindset practices in an introductory physical computing classroom: high school students’ engagement with debugging by design activities. Computer Science Education, 35(4) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FREZ8...

First (beta) version of our AI Auditing for High School lessons: piloted in high school CS classrooms, with resources for more information. bit.ly/k12aiaudit-lessons #cseducation #aieducation Created with amazing CS teachers, Yasmin Kafai, Danae Metaxa, Daniel Noh, Luis Morales-Navarros

Cosmic bat nebula. Happy Halloween!

Just noticed that as of May 2025, Coded Bias isn’t available anywhere for streaming. Netflix took it off? Anyone else have knowledge about this?

Workshop at CLS next Thursday with Yasmin Kafai, @luismn.bsky.social and @dnoh.bsky.social It's going to be two hours of thoughtful fun! #ConnectedLearning2025 @theclalliance.bsky.social

An absolutely amazing opportunity for senior doc students and postdocs. An opportunity for community and mentorship in academia that includes non-academic career paths in industry, nonprofits, policy, etc. I have only ever heard fantastic things. Organized by @luismn.bsky.social and Cecile Sadler

Amazing opportunity: Friends at @cooneycenter are opening applications for their Sandbox for Literacy Innovations. Tech and media companies focused on children’s literacy learning are invited to apply by 8/29. Learn more: cooneycenter.org/sandbox-literacy @cooneycenter.bsky.social

Surprise news - I'll be doing a keynote at #CSTA2025 next week. Sad that Yasmin Kafai cannot be there, but will do my best in her stead! Algorithm auditing here we come...

Deadline has been extended to June 30. Submit those research papers and showcases!

Had such a lovely time and lively conversation in the virtual watch party for #isls2025 keynote 1: Fernanda Liberali and Mutizwa Mukute. Thank you organizers for making this possible and for everyone who joined in.

Such a fantastic conference!!!

Looking to hear from emerging scholars & people who couldn't travel to Helsinki? Come to the virtual poster session on Th, June 12 4:30pm Helsinki time (9:30am ET, 10:30pm Tokyo). There's even a room in person (with the session chair there) and you can attend online! #isls2025 #hybridconference

These two speakers are *amazing* and will be live-streamed so all registered attendees can participate. We encourage watch parties! Put CLS on your calendars!

Prepare your submissions! Virtual & in-person options. FYI, Showcases are only 2 pages & can emphasize design and implementation (or a book or article already published elsewhere). Due June 23. #ConnectedLearning2025 #CLSummit2025 #virtualconference #hybridconference @usuitls.bsky.social

NEW: We've obtained the list with all 1042 terminated NSF grants. Full list will be up later today. Check grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html A few quick numbers from the full list: Termination date on 4/18: 384 on 4/25: 658 Amounts in millions USD Intended: 739 Obligated: 616 Outlayed: 261

New logo…

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

During the large earthquake this morning, elephants at the San Diego zoo circled around their youngest member. It's fantastic to watch. [Found the video linked in an @latimes.com article] @sandiegozoo.bsky.social #elephants #earthquake sandiegozoo.app.box.com/s/6mhhokppx8...

Promoted to full research professor!!! Humbled and honored.

Fun opportunity for a textile challenge: www.freelancer.com/contest/Moon...

Deadline tomorrow! Play Make Learn is an amazing small conference! Super imaginative with great people. <3

📢📢 #CallForProposals NOW OPEN for #ConnectedLearning2025! Submit research papers and showcases focused on digital tech for learning, edu + commercial games, tech-infused curricula, and exploration of digital media and technology for learning. Submit by June 23. clsummit.news/CFP-2025 #CFP

Learning Sciences folk, if you’ve used Tanner Vea’s work in your course (e.g., required readings, etc.), do let Tanner know. A good idea to do for other assistant or associate faculty, as it’s a fantastic way to show impact beyond citation counts or journal quartile. #learningsciences

Many exciting things in the works. So delighted to be a part of this! #ConnectedLearning2025 @usuitls.bsky.social

Call for Proposals Now Open! Join educators, designers, developers, and innovators exploring the intersection of play, making, and learning. Multiple presentation formats available - from workshops to demos. #makered #tinkering Deadline: March 7, 2025 Submit proposal: go.wisc.edu/PMLsubmit

Next Tu, June 25. A reprise of our SIGCSE panel  Enduring Lessons from ‘Computer Science for All’ for AI Education in Schools. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #CSEducation #CSEdResearch #CSforall #CS #AIed #K12 @shuchig.bsky.social @shanavwhite.com

Bricoleur troubleshooting? Bottom-up problem solving, distributed across people and tools, is used by kids to tackle a complex set of problems in a buggy e-textiles project. #etextiles #debugging #CSEducation #CSEdResearch #CS #STEM #K12 50 free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SNZUX...

Leveraging learnings from two decades of CS ed: Enduring Lessons from ‘Computer Science for All’ for AI Education in Schools Sat March 25 10:45am-12pmPT (hybrid) #SIGCSE2024 #CSEducation #CSEdResearch #CSforall #CS #AIed #K12 @shuchig.bsky.social @shanavwhite.com + Yasmin Kafai & Carla Strickland

A fab expansion of the Best Student Paper from ISLS 2021 led by @luismn0_0 What does it mean for students to *practice* growth mindset while creating, trading, and solving buggy physical computing projects? #etextiles #debugging #CSEducation #CSEdResearch  #CS #STEM #k12 50 free copies link ⬇️

50 free copies of this article. Video analysis & reflection on kids debugging e-textiles projects we designed (mwuahaha). Led by Gayithri Jayathirtha and with Yasmin Kafai #etextiles #debugging #CSEducation #CSEdResearch  #CS #STEM #K12 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZIAZA...

CS and Maker folk. I need advice on software to program Arduino boards…. without Arduino since that is apparently not SOPPA approved. (Student online personal protection act). Anyone have ideas? (We are mostly talking about Circuit Playground Classic- an Arduino board, but the question is bigger…

Powerful article by a Covid long hauler and data visualizer. An experiential process of reading it that was validating and fascinating. #longcovid #datavisualization #dataart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...