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!

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

There were so many highlights of #NCTE25 but the peak was absolutely presenting alongside my 7th grade English teacher. Here’s to the roots running so deep.

If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social

see you there!

A6: After doing a photovoice project with my students as an elementary teacher, I learned so much about their #literacies through the images they took (even though this wasn't even the original project aim!). With that in mind, would love to keep experimenting with photo journals in the classroom!

A3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies

A5: I think about this tension so much when thinking about arts-based #literacies more broadly, and I see one path forward as empowering students to lead the design of a unit or activity so they can bring the practice to life in context. I think a plug and play approach can often lead to deadening!

A4: I've used a zine fair model with children before and I see lots of cool intersections with this idea! One element I love is how children and youth are framed as experts in their fandoms, and have an authentic audience for sharing their #literacies

A3: On the "fandoms" channel on the Write4Change Discord server, it is so cool to see youth imagining characters in ways that disrupt their representation in the media, especially imagining and drawing characters in queer relationships and gender-bending. #literacies

A2: I love this question! As a teen, I loved scrolling on arts and creative blogs on Tumblr and Pinterest, and that has no doubt contributed to my interest in the intersections between the arts and the digital and arts based #literacies of youth.

A1: I am continually inspired by Dr. Grace D Player's work with the Simmering Spices art collective, thinking about the relational, curatorial and imaginative #literacies of Girls of Color. As an arts-based scholar, this is the kind of meaningful participatory work I really aspire to.

Hi everyone! My name is Clara Abbott (she/her) - I am a 3rd year doctoral candidate (🥳 ) at University of Pennsylvania & a graduate student board member of @writinglit.bsky.social. Excited to take part in this #literacies chat!

Me! See you there

Our team met this morning to discuss and plan ways we can move forward the ideas from the #Literacies homecoming chat. We've got some exciting things in the works! @clarabbott.bsky.social @lexikwoodward.bsky.social @nicolermisra.bsky.social @carolinebr.bsky.social @kpsinedu.bsky.social

A6: Finding the play all around us in everyday literacies and sparking more joy out there!

A6: For this question, I return to the Bell quote that @anna-phd.bsky.social and @esp-phd.bsky.social evoked to start the chat: "We exist only in relation." In this moment, those relations are vital to our survival. I look forward to a continued #literacies community that exists far into the future.

A6. Subversive, transgressive, fugitive, and joyful world-building #literacies

A6: As an arts-based researcher interested in digital #literacies, I am super interested in a #literacies future that uses art as a way to critique and imagine the relationships we have with tech. As an extension, curious about how making/sharing artwork could make its way into #literacies chats!

A5: I always love when these chats can bring together scholars and practitioners/K-12 educators to discuss a shared interest. AI #literacies immediately comes to mind, but there are so many other topics which might bring together emerging research as well as useful classroom resources!

A4: I think the biggest challenge is getting more people on this platform for the chat because it is still relatively new. It makes me think of the "bring a friend" idea at gyms, classes, etc. We could try that here! This month's chat has been a great step in that direction. #literacies

A3: I have loved learning from @anna-phd.bsky.social about the first #literacies chats, and the seminal papers and ideas that have come out of this space. Here's to many more to come!

A2: I am newer to these, so it was the most recent chat for me! After discussing censorship with other scholars, as well as literacy practitioners, I have been seeing it everywhere and considering its applications on digital platforms. Loved that discussion with @drannd.bsky.social! #literacies

A1: As a doctoral student, it was actually the emergence of Bluesky which led me to the #literacies chats! I was interested to connect with other #literacies scholars online, and only more recently have I learned about what a cool history these chats had back on Twitter as well.

Hi everyone! My name is Clara Abbott (she/her) and I'm a 3rd-year doctoral student in Literacy Studies at University of Pennsylvania GSE. Joining the chat as a proud member of the @writinglit.bsky.social GSB. Looking forward to being in conversation with you all in this #literacies homecoming!

One more day! See you tomorrow night 💫

See you Tuesday!!

SO excited for this. A blast from the #literacies past.

I've not yet met a teacher who testifies in favor of the legislation that restricts books in classrooms. #literacies

Less than a min to #literacies! All are welcome to the conversation on Censorship and #Literacies.

For clarification, this month's chat with Dr. Ann David "Censorship and #Literacies " will be taking place on THURSDAY, September 25th. We are so excited to connect!

The AI and Education discourse is maddening. "Does AI improve learning?" is a dumb question. What form of "AI" and in what context? What do you mean by learning? Improving on a test or knowledge for use? If you're asking that question, you don't actually care about a real answer.

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for OVER one month. The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding Mr. Kim’s release. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...

We want to welcome our two new GSB Members to our Bluesky Team: Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social and Lexi K. Woodward @lexikwoodward.bsky.social! #literacies

let's do this! everyone join!

As the school year begins center young writers in a rapidly changing digital landscape by adding Open World Writing to your pedagogical toolkit. Tons of activities and ideas to try across ages and spaces! doi-org.proxy.library.upenn.edu/10.1002/jaal...

One more day! See you all tomorrow night for an exciting #literacies chat 🤗

So excited for this! Please mark your calendars and join us for what is sure to be a cool convo!

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

NEW: ICE's "roving patrols" in Los Angeles have led to unconstitutional arrests of people agents suspect — without probable cause — are in the country illegally, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

This is such a dream

It’s going to be a great week.

Amy Sherald’s subjects — fashionably dressed Black people rendered in shades of gray — tell a story, recalling writers like Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, and their poetic yet unflinching refusal to look away from the everyday horrors of American life.

Another resource educators can use to teach students about the people doing the work that makes AI possible comes from @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Visit the Data Workers Inquiry at: data-workers.org

Here's the correct one!! @writinglit.bsky.social

In an “illustrated texts” class, students made fanzines about graphic novels, forming new analyses and narratives by cutting/collaging excerpts from what they read, and I heard the coolest lightbulb moment: “Wait, are we restorying?” @amystorn.bsky.social and @ebonyteach.bsky.social ✨

Penn employees and students marching the petition, signed by over 1,000 of our coworkers, to College Hall. This beauty is 30 feet long!

What an honor to co-author this article on Open World Writing, a writer-centered approach to feedback and coaching in a postdigital age. Check this out and share with the teachers, coaches and writers in your life! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“In order to understand schools in this country, you have to understand what they have meant for black people and native people” Thank you @eveewing.bsky.social for sharing your careful, profound, and always timely scholarship with Philly last night 🔥

Very excited to let you know that Season 5 of Pop & Play is coming March 11! This season we dive deep into children's media. We have some OUTSTANDING guests (as always) and slight spoiler, puppets play an outsized role... Check out the trailer and all our off-season Pop Off's now!