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Dr Susan D Blum

@susandblum.bsky.social

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Writer, observer, educator, anthropologist, sourdough baker, gardener, linguistic anthropologist. Obsessive about the planet, politics, justice, health. Fascinated by humans. Photo by jan_huber on unsplash

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Dec 19

I've been obsessed with trying to figure out how people can learn well even in alienating systems. My book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning (Cornell 2024) is my latest thinking about it. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

cover of book, Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning, by Susan D. Blum. Image is of a bank of battered gray school lockers with one replaced by vibrant flowers.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 21h

AntiFa = Anti-Fascist. If you’re opposing this, you’re ProFa, = Pro-Fascist, or possibly Anti-Anti-Fascist. I know where I stand.

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Fascism | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Fascism is a far-right authoritarian political philosophy. Learn about the history and principles of fascism and its implementation in Nazi Germany.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 But heartbreaking, for those of us who still believe in the ideals of learning-with-others.

Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 1d

1/2 The absurd conclusion of all this GenAI stuff is faculty creating courses entirely w AI; students completing assignments w agentive AI; faculty grading w AI. No humans need be changed in this process. No learning will be required. Easy peasy.

#GenerativeAI

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 3d

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely!
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School Story Lab

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Annie @anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 10d

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find

When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 10d

The world we desire will not come about unless we dream it first. Here are some thoughts about higher education.

#highereducation

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Magic Wand

Dreaming of What Higher Education Could Be

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 12d

Promise??? 😬

Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 19d

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 23d

Release the Epstein Files. They are filled with disgusting depravity but we need to know

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23d

BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just announced that Democrats now have the votes to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

Sept. 23 — the discharge petition will be entered into the record. 7 days later — the House votes.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23d

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 27d

I'm not sure it saves time but it makes the work more meaningful.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 29d

This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...

The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning

The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning [Ricci PhD, Carlo, Riley PhD, Gina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lying brazenly is a job requirement in this dictatorship

Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7

On the belief that I should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I got a Pfizer covid vaccine rather than waiting for Novovax. I’m afraid they are going to take them away in Indiana, b/c of our administration’s fealty to the orange menace, so I decided not to wait

Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7

An experience at a campus theater production made me think about higher ed as practicing being in society. I know this is not news! But it struck me forcefully, and in a great way. My latest Substack post:

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The rich pleasures—and lessons—of a college campus

Mini-universe, mini-society, humans gathering together, led by art

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s time to shut down the government. Democrats have weeks to prepare about how to make the case to the people. Watch how Pres Bartlet did it in The West Wing.

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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Sep 7

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7

Immoral, plus illegal. Enforced by….karma?

Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7

#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans.

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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The… | Ben Willi...

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7

They lie, steal, cheat, boast, destroy, even kill. #TheReckoningWillCome and we’ll clean up our house, de-MAGAify, the way the Germans denazified. Sooner would be good. There will be one defector, then another, and it will accelerate. Gradually, then all at once.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sickening sycophants

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 6

Simpering cowards one and all.

This is almost unbearable to watch.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 6

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 6

I stand with #Chicago and the rule of law. I stand with truth. I stand with peace.

#EjectTrumpTheTraitor

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 6

For all the people, especially Democratic leaders, who keep saying, "Trump can't do that! It's illegal!"

Authoritarians can do anything they want. They don't care about laws, order, rules, or civility.

Once they have power, they flex it.

I hope Dems finally understand this.