Karis Jones 🔜 #LRA2025
@karismjones.bsky.social
Educator acafan activist & Assistant Prof of ELA Education || Baylor University || Exec @writinglit #literacies 💫📚💻|| ttrpg & gaming || karisjonesphd.com
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It’s here: “Fandoms in the Classroom” now in print! @scottstorm.bsky.social and I are excited to reveal that our foreword was written by none other than @ebonyteach.bsky.social — we are so grateful to you and excited to be in conversation about fandoms & classrooms! #literacies #newrelease #EduSky
Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂
Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇
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www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂
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Another reminder that the anti-censorship work is happening at #NCTE2025!
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Headed to #NCTE2025? This doc has the sessions related to censorship! The bolded sessions feature members from @ncte.org's Committee Against Censorship.
The book banners are on the wrong side of history, but we need community, solidarity, and strategy to make that happen. Join us in the work.
The book banners are on the wrong side of history, but we need community, solidarity, and strategy to make that happen. Join us in the work.
Censorship related sessions - NCTE Convention 2025
Thursday 11:30-12:45 Intellectual Freedom Dreams Deferred: Banned in the "Blue(ish) States" Room 203 2:30 English/ELA Department Chairs Facing Tough Topics Together Room 402 Friday 9:30a-11a The...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Another reminder that the anti-censorship work is happening at #NCTE2025!
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Join us to preview work from the upcoming @cite-ela.bsky.social special issue “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them” #literacies
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
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Join us to preview work from the upcoming @cite-ela.bsky.social special issue “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them” #literacies
Members of the Critical Gaming #Literacies study group will be leading a game breakout tomorrow at #NCTE2025! You’ll have the opportunity to create a complex and capable “troublemaker” with us. One of my favorite sessions every year, organized by #MakersInTheMiddle by @alexcorbitt.bsky.social !
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Members of the Critical Gaming #Literacies study group will be leading a game breakout tomorrow at #NCTE2025! You’ll have the opportunity to create a complex and capable “troublemaker” with us. One of my favorite sessions every year, organized by #MakersInTheMiddle by @alexcorbitt.bsky.social !
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A3: In both comics and hip hop culture any number of critical issues and lenses immediately bubble to the surface. This doesn’t mean they are to be discarded. Rather the #literacies developed through loving critique makes fan spaces that shape epistemology and reality that much better.
Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A3: In both comics and hip hop culture any number of critical issues and lenses immediately bubble to the surface. This doesn’t mean they are to be discarded. Rather the #literacies developed through loving critique makes fan spaces that shape epistemology and reality that much better.
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A3: distributed #literacy and expertise. Power and knowledge production become shared and co-generative. Transmediated, transliterated, and multimodal approaches mean un-fixed/unsettled meaning making. Possibilities for play, remix and imagination abound.
Q4: We invite teachers to take up a "comic convention" model of teaching as described below. What do you notice about this kind of classroom? How does it shift current instructional paradigms?
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A3: distributed #literacy and expertise. Power and knowledge production become shared and co-generative. Transmediated, transliterated, and multimodal approaches mean un-fixed/unsettled meaning making. Possibilities for play, remix and imagination abound.
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Critical, interdisciplinary, multimodal #literacies that foreground culturally sustaining pedagogies & civic engagement for sure!! @karismjones.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @snowdaylearninglab.org @haenyyoon.bsky.social
Just to name a few.
Just to name a few.
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Critical, interdisciplinary, multimodal #literacies that foreground culturally sustaining pedagogies & civic engagement for sure!! @karismjones.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @snowdaylearninglab.org @haenyyoon.bsky.social
Just to name a few.
Just to name a few.
Great example of what a fandom classroom looks like! #literacies
A6: I really went for it with my undergrad students this year! We designed a whole unit around digging into their favorite discourse communities (i.e. fandoms), studying the genres they use, and ultimately producing a text that they felt was authentic to that community. #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Great example of what a fandom classroom looks like! #literacies
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Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!
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Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!
We stan zines!! #literacies
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
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
We stan zines!! #literacies
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A5: I think moving away from co-opting happens in all the small decisions educators reposition themselves away from being central and instead, elevate students to lead the #literacies interactions and invite the beautiful messiness that that can entail into the classroom :)
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A5: I think moving away from co-opting happens in all the small decisions educators reposition themselves away from being central and instead, elevate students to lead the #literacies interactions and invite the beautiful messiness that that can entail into the classroom :)
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A6: This was a practice that I felt I could do much more easily as a classroom teacher. Currently, I am dreaming about how to engage and excite the college students I get to teach about how to begin this work. #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A6: This was a practice that I felt I could do much more easily as a classroom teacher. Currently, I am dreaming about how to engage and excite the college students I get to teach about how to begin this work. #literacies
WOOO!!! We love hearing from readers! #literacies
Interested to dive deeper into fandoms in the classroom? Check out @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book! #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
WOOO!!! We love hearing from readers! #literacies
A6: If you’re at #NCTE2025, join us to experience some of these ideas live! 💡(we will sign your book!) @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A6: If you’re at #NCTE2025, join us to experience some of these ideas live! 💡(we will sign your book!) @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
Yessss!! What we want to get across in our book is: THIS WORKS! #literacies
A5: Classrooms can easily feel like “doing school” with a focus on compliance. Instead, support students to follow their intellectual passions! Give choice about what texts to read, work to produce, and questions to pursue. I’ve seen this work in diverse and inclusive public schools! #literacies
Q5: An issue we've seen with integrating youth fandom #literacies into educational spaces is that these practices get co-opted or deadened. Have you seen this? How do we avoid these issues?
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Yessss!! What we want to get across in our book is: THIS WORKS! #literacies
Plug and play approaches can lead to deadening!!! #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!
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Plug and play approaches can lead to deadening!!! #literacies
📣 love this: the speculative helps us to consider what’s wrong AND challenge it! This is what I love about participatory fandom communities #literacies
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
Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
📣 love this: the speculative helps us to consider what’s wrong AND challenge it! This is what I love about participatory fandom communities #literacies
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A4: This shift creates a more student-centered community. Instead of teachers spending time preparing lectures and worksheets, they facilitate a community where students use literacy to pursue intellectual interests, analyze a wide range of texts, and construct new knowledge together. #literacies
Q4: We invite teachers to take up a "comic convention" model of teaching as described below. What do you notice about this kind of classroom? How does it shift current instructional paradigms?
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A4: This shift creates a more student-centered community. Instead of teachers spending time preparing lectures and worksheets, they facilitate a community where students use literacy to pursue intellectual interests, analyze a wide range of texts, and construct new knowledge together. #literacies
A4: Classrooms inspired by comic conventions center *all* youth’s expertise and knowledge! #literacies
Q4: We invite teachers to take up a "comic convention" model of teaching as described below. What do you notice about this kind of classroom? How does it shift current instructional paradigms?
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A4: Classrooms inspired by comic conventions center *all* youth’s expertise and knowledge! #literacies
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A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies
Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies
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A2: I looove scifi and fantasy books and movies. I feel like my love for the overall genre has impacted how I make meaning in the world. I’m always thinking toward the future and other worlds.
Q2: In our book, we define fandoms as "communities of interested readers who engage with a particular text, text set, or media franchise." How have your own fandom experiences shaped your personal #literacies learning?
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A2: I looove scifi and fantasy books and movies. I feel like my love for the overall genre has impacted how I make meaning in the world. I’m always thinking toward the future and other worlds.
A2: I’m a Lord of the Rings fan first and foremost! I have a lot of feelings about the new Rings of Power series, we can chat at #NCTE 😂 #literacies
Q2: In our book, we define fandoms as "communities of interested readers who engage with a particular text, text set, or media franchise." How have your own fandom experiences shaped your personal #literacies learning?
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A2: I’m a Lord of the Rings fan first and foremost! I have a lot of feelings about the new Rings of Power series, we can chat at #NCTE 😂 #literacies
A1: I love seeing all these #literacies inspirations!! I have to shout out @aleciamarie.bsky.social and @jaynelammers.bsky.social for their work on fanfiction and its amazing writerly communities
Q1: This community has a long history of studying youth #literacies in out-of-school spaces. What #literacies scholarship or scholar inspires you?
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A1: I love seeing all these #literacies inspirations!! I have to shout out @aleciamarie.bsky.social and @jaynelammers.bsky.social for their work on fanfiction and its amazing writerly communities
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A1: I’m always inspired by work that is grounded in the arts. Give me stories, painting, film, dance and all the things. Folks that inspire me include the amazing @ebonyteach.blacksky.app (my first academic fangirl moment was w/her). Also love me some @gholdym.bsky.social, @shamarireid.bsky.social
Q1: This community has a long history of studying youth #literacies in out-of-school spaces. What #literacies scholarship or scholar inspires you?
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A1: I’m always inspired by work that is grounded in the arts. Give me stories, painting, film, dance and all the things. Folks that inspire me include the amazing @ebonyteach.blacksky.app (my first academic fangirl moment was w/her). Also love me some @gholdym.bsky.social, @shamarireid.bsky.social