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Led by @anna-phd.bsky.social, the Education Now Lab is a community-engaged research+practice lab engaging in & producing a range of public, academic & new media scholarship toward education justice.
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Final call! We have to manually send out the invite, so sign up sooner than later! We'll do one last send out tomorrow afternoon.
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Our final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research
"Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Are you considering a doctoral degree in education? Are you interested in making high school science more accessible to blind and low-vision students?
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A flyer that reads: Help make science more accessible to blind and low-vision students. Join Dr. Shaheen’s Lab as a graduate research assistant at Illinois State University starting fall 2026. nlshahe@ilstu.edu.
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."

Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Event flyer with profile picture of Audrey Waters and the text: The Education Now Lab Presents Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice November 12, 2025 @ 6:30 pm CT AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education with Audrey Watters Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab An Initiative of the Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship from the Office of Research at Illinois State University
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Would you please help us share this awesome, upcoming series?
edunowlab.bsky.social Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · Sep 16
The Education Now Lab presents the 2025 Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice free, webinar speaker series! Please share widely!

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Profile images of each speaker and the text: The Education Now Lab Presents Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice October 7, 2025 @ 10:00 am CT Research-Creation between Art and Anthropology with Dr. Kate Hennesy, Simon Fraser University October 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm CT Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality with Dr. Roderic N. Crooks, University of California Irvine November 12, 2025 @ 6:30 pm CT AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education with Audrey Watters November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility with Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab An Initiative of the Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship from the Office of Research at Illinois State University Logos for Illinois State University and the Education Now Lab
September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Would you please help us share this awesome, upcoming series?
edunowlab.bsky.social Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · Sep 16
The Education Now Lab presents the 2025 Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice free, webinar speaker series! Please share widely!

Sign up at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Profile images of each speaker and the text: The Education Now Lab Presents Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice October 7, 2025 @ 10:00 am CT Research-Creation between Art and Anthropology with Dr. Kate Hennesy, Simon Fraser University October 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm CT Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality with Dr. Roderic N. Crooks, University of California Irvine November 12, 2025 @ 6:30 pm CT AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education with Audrey Watters November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility with Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab An Initiative of the Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship from the Office of Research at Illinois State University Logos for Illinois State University and the Education Now Lab
September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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New @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club!

I'm leading a discussion of @neilselwyn.bsky.social's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tues, Nov 11, from 8-9pm ET. Dr. Selwyn will be joining us too.

Register at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
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September 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The Education Now Lab presents the 2025 Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice free, webinar speaker series! Please share widely!

Sign up at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Profile images of each speaker and the text: The Education Now Lab Presents Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice October 7, 2025 @ 10:00 am CT Research-Creation between Art and Anthropology with Dr. Kate Hennesy, Simon Fraser University October 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm CT Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality with Dr. Roderic N. Crooks, University of California Irvine November 12, 2025 @ 6:30 pm CT AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education with Audrey Watters November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility with Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab An Initiative of the Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship from the Office of Research at Illinois State University Logos for Illinois State University and the Education Now Lab
September 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Friends! Pencil in these dates for @edunowlab.bsky.social's Creatively Critical Tech series! #literacies
10/6 or 7 Kate Hennessy www.makingculturelab.com
10/15 6:30CT Roderic Crooks www.rncrooks.info
11/12 6:30CT Audrey Watters audreywatters.com
11/19 6:30CT Cynthia Bennett www.bennettc.com
Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech Research + Design + Practice
September 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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And….*Exciting News* Our course will be hosting another round of the Creatively Critical Tech: Design + Research + Practice free, virtual speaker series! Follow @edunowlab.bsky.social for updates! Check out the 2023 speakers too: about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/cr...
Creatively Critical Tech Symposium Series – Education Now Lab
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August 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Final call! Join us tomorrow!
edunowlab.bsky.social Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · May 5
Join us on May 14 @ 6pm CT for the Creatively Critical Tech series with @charleswlogan.bsky.social on "After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI" w/spotlights from Dr. Natalie Shaheen, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social
Sign up -> tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Event flyer with profile pictures of the speakers and the text: Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab at Illinois State University Sponsored by the ISU Office of Research and Graduate Studies The Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI Charles Logan Northwestern University May 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CT Sign up @ https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Project Spotlights A11y in Sci Dr. Natalie Shaheen Illinois State University Ankara In Motion Fikayo Olutomiwa Illinois State University LRTMP Public Scholarship Initiative Viraj Patel Illinois State University
May 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Join us on May 14 @ 6pm CT for the Creatively Critical Tech series with @charleswlogan.bsky.social on "After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI" w/spotlights from Dr. Natalie Shaheen, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social
Sign up -> tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Event flyer with profile pictures of the speakers and the text: Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab at Illinois State University Sponsored by the ISU Office of Research and Graduate Studies The Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI Charles Logan Northwestern University May 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CT Sign up @ https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Project Spotlights A11y in Sci Dr. Natalie Shaheen Illinois State University Ankara In Motion Fikayo Olutomiwa Illinois State University LRTMP Public Scholarship Initiative Viraj Patel Illinois State University
May 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Did you miss the presidential session at #AERA2025? Join us to take a "creatively critical" look at teaching ecological approaches to AI with @charleswlogan.bsky.social! Bonus project spotlights from Dr. Natalie Shaheen, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social!
edunowlab.bsky.social Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · May 5
Join us on May 14 @ 6pm CT for the Creatively Critical Tech series with @charleswlogan.bsky.social on "After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI" w/spotlights from Dr. Natalie Shaheen, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social
Sign up -> tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Event flyer with profile pictures of the speakers and the text: Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab at Illinois State University Sponsored by the ISU Office of Research and Graduate Studies The Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI Charles Logan Northwestern University May 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CT Sign up @ https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Project Spotlights A11y in Sci Dr. Natalie Shaheen Illinois State University Ankara In Motion Fikayo Olutomiwa Illinois State University LRTMP Public Scholarship Initiative Viraj Patel Illinois State University
May 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Join us on May 14 @ 6pm CT for the Creatively Critical Tech series with @charleswlogan.bsky.social on "After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI" w/spotlights from Dr. Natalie Shaheen, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social
Sign up -> tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Event flyer with profile pictures of the speakers and the text: Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab at Illinois State University Sponsored by the ISU Office of Research and Graduate Studies The Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI Charles Logan Northwestern University May 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CT Sign up @ https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Project Spotlights A11y in Sci Dr. Natalie Shaheen Illinois State University Ankara In Motion Fikayo Olutomiwa Illinois State University LRTMP Public Scholarship Initiative Viraj Patel Illinois State University
May 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Check out our public scholarship initiative with @lrtmp.bsky.social and the authors of LRTMP Volume 73!
about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/pu... #literacies
Public Scholarship Initiative – Education Now Lab
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March 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Feb 9
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Scholarship impacts everyday practice. Working alongside authors of articles in Vol. 73 of @lrtmp.bsky.social, to articulate how research can be used to leverage on-the-ground literacy practices has been tremendously rewarding. Massive kudos to @anna-phd.bsky.social and @edunowlab.bsky.social 🥳
lrtmp.bsky.social Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice @lrtmp.bsky.social · Dec 6
✨ @lrtmp.bsky.social & @edunowlab.bsky.social announce the launch of our Public Scholarship Initiative! 🔔 Stay tuned! We'll be sharing Vol 73 articles w/public media pieces made in collab w/authors & @edunowlab.bsky.social with @anna-phd.bsky.social, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social
Green and white background with profile pictures of Anna Smith, Fikayo Olutomiwa, and Viraj Patel with the text Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice and the Education Now Lab PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE The co-editors of Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice are pleased to announce the launch of our Public Scholarship Initiative in collaboration with the authors of LRTMP, Vol. 73 and the Education Now Lab's Dr. Anna Smith, Fikayo Olutomiwa, and Viraj Patel.
December 7, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Stay tuned! Our public scholarship initiative with @lrtmp.bsky.social launches this week with media collaboratively created with the authors of the articles in LRTMP, Vol 3 and Education Now Lab's @anna-phd.bsky.social, Fikayo Olutomiwa, and @boyfrombombay.bsky.social!
lrtmp.bsky.social Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice @lrtmp.bsky.social · Dec 2
📢 Publication alert!

💡 Ling Hao’s article “Uplifting the Voices of Asian American Parents Through an Online Family Book Club: Elicited and Silenced Cultural Knowledge” is now live
at journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx
Text on a light background of books arranged diagonally Uplifting the Voices of Asian American Parents Through an Online Family Book Club: Elicited and Silenced Cultural Knowledge Ling Hao This ethnographic case study explores how parents' participation in reading experiences influenced children's responses to culturally relevant texts. In an online family book club, parents and children sat together, read culturally relevant picture books, and discussed the books after reading. The book clubs helped children recognize parents as cultural resources and reading partners, which helped children make personal and cultural connections Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice Bluesky @LRTMP Facebook LRTMP Instagram @LR_TMP Created in partnership with the Education Now Lab. Check out Volume 73!
December 3, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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To reintroduce ourselves, here are some of our public initiatives: We've had two fabulous public symposia series. At about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/ under Series we have freely available resources & videos from the Theory<->Method and Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice series.
2024 Theory Method Symposium series with speakers' profile pictures of Drs. Johnny Saldaña, Amanda Tachine, Z Nicolazzo, María Paula Ghiso, and Gerald Campano and their talk titles 2023 Theory Method Symposium series with speakers' profile pictures of Drs. Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Carlton Fong, Catí de los Ríos, Leigh Patel, Keisha Green, and their talk titles 2023 Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice Symposium series with speakers' profile pictures of Drs. sava saheli singh, Arturo Cortez, José R. Lizárraga, Justin Reich, Antero Garcia, Alix Dick, Phil Nichols, Samuel Reed III, and their talk titles
November 19, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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We're excited to partner with @lrtmp.bsky.social for a brand new initiative to broaden the audiences and interlocutors of the research published in LRA's journal Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice. Stay tuned!
lrtmp.bsky.social Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice @lrtmp.bsky.social · Nov 15
We're here! Please help us share the word!
Volume 73 is going Online First now at journals.sagepub.com/home/LRX
When the Volume is bundled, we'll start sharing about each of the articles, and we'll launch our public multimedia scholarship initiative in collaboration with @edunowlab.bsky.social!
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November 15, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Happy to join bluer skies! Please follow and share! We are a community-engaged research+practice lab leveraging new & public media for education justice!
We host the public Theory<->Method and Critically Creative Tech series with videos & resources available here: about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/
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November 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM