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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10h

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 21h

Next up is Dr. Roderic Crooks on "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." This one is for you #EduSky #literacies @civicsoftech.bsky.social and more! Hope you can make it!

Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 21h

Don't miss our next outstanding speaker, Dr. Roderic Crooks, on October 15, 2025, @ 7:00 pm CT. He will speak on his book "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

A washable shoe has no right to be this comfortable

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 1d

I stay on social media to see the occasional product reviews & recommendations from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and TV reviews & recommendations from @bakerdphd.bsky.social! Always the best!

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Emily Pendergrass @esp-phd.bsky.social · 4d

Fall is the best time for homecoming 🤗

Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 5d

Need some joy & reconnection right now? Come to the #literacies Homecoming! October 28, 2025 @ 7-8 CT. Let's get together to reminisce about the ideas, projects, and most importantly, people we've been able to connect with through the #literacies chat years...and imagine forward together!

Dark background with stars and pictures of Anna Smith and Emily Pendergrass. Join the 2012 founders of the #literacies chat for a homecoming to remember! October 28, 2025 7-8 CT Hosted by the Writing and Literacies SIG

Dark background with stars and the text I'm going to the #literacies Homecoming! October 28, 2025 7-8 CT Hosted by the Writing and Literacies SIG

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 3d

a woman in a pink dress is crying

Alt: Ariana Grande in a pink dress is crying and looking to the side kind of disgusted and hopeless

media.tenor.com

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 4d

It worked!

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Kyle P. Smith @kpsinedu.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t miss it! Mark your calendars. We’re hoping for record turnout!

Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 5d

Need some joy & reconnection right now? Come to the #literacies Homecoming! October 28, 2025 @ 7-8 CT. Let's get together to reminisce about the ideas, projects, and most importantly, people we've been able to connect with through the #literacies chat years...and imagine forward together!

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 4d

I am sorry to hear about the hard week...and on your birthday no less! I am glad the timing worked out for you to see it right when you logged on. Your influence is ongoing and always!

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 5d

Need some joy & reconnection right now? Come to the #literacies Homecoming! October 28, 2025 @ 7-8 CT. Let's get together to reminisce about the ideas, projects, and most importantly, people we've been able to connect with through the #literacies chat years...and imagine forward together!

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 6d

Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning by Drs. me, Cherise McBride, and @justmaybechris.bsky.social (also, RIP the bird app & the way we used to connect via SM for this one) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning

This article provides a comparative case study of two connected learning experiences in teacher education that vary in scope, participants, time, and design to consider the questions: 1) What chara...

www.tandfonline.com

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 6d

The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education by Drs. @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and me: citejournal.org/volume-25/is...

The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education – CITE Journal

citejournal.org

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 6d

Tinkering toward teacher learning: a case for critical playful literacies in teacher education by Drs. Cherise McBride, @remikalir.bsky.social, and me: www.emerald.com/etpc/article...

Tinkering toward teacher learning: a case for critical playful literacies in teacher education

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to re-center playfulness as a humanizing approach in teacher education. As teachers navigate the current moment of heightened control, surveillance, and systemic ...

www.emerald.com

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 6d

And then we get to talk to Dr. Cherise McBride and Dr. @justmaybechris.bsky.social about their important work in critical approaches to teachers' learning through, with, against, and about technology, including these three pieces I have had the honor of collaborating with them on:

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight in Critical Perspectives on Tech in Edu, we're talking teacher well-being in a rapidly changing sociotechnological landscape. We're starting w/ @profhsieh.bsky.social's important work on teacher dehumanization: www.ascd.org/el/articles/... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Matter of Respect

Treating educators as the professionals they are is long overdue. School and district leaders can set the precedent.

www.ascd.org

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in creative, arts-based, collaborative, alternative forms of scholarship? Don't miss this talk about research-creation from Dr. Kate Hennessy, director of the www.makingculturelab.com
Register and share today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr... #literacies

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Rich Novack @richnovack.bsky.social · 11d

Educators, #WriteOut, a two week online slow chat about teaching writing outdoors, starts Oct. 12. Get ready!

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 12d

Totally fair! It is so real. And not at all stepping on toes. Hopefully you have allies in your department and community who have your back. Parents who will speak at the school board before there's an issue. Maybe you can quietly share this toolkit with them. #literacies

Guide to Attending Library and School Board Meetings

Make sure local officials know you support the library and access to books of all kinds by attending, listening, and speaking out against censorship.

uniteagainstbookbans.org

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 12d

This fear is so real. And that's the point of the climate of fear created by the various ideologues who seek to silence stories and rewrite history. There's great power in looking to Freedom Schools or Indigenous peoples fostering literacy during colonization. I love this project. #literacies

Networks of Correspondence | We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us

Networks of Correspondence The written language, passed along in letters through the US Postal Service, bridged the gaps among reservations, allowing men an ...

nativeamericannetworks.com

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Nicole R. Misra she/her @nicolermisra.bsky.social · 12d

So excited for this special #literacies Homecoming! 💖 Put it on your calendar today!

AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 12d

You will not want to be miss the October chat, where we will be celebrating HOMECOMING with #literacies chat founders Dr. Anna Smith (@anna-phd.bsky.social) and Dr. Emily Pendergrass (@esp-phd.bsky.social)

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 12d

You will not want to be miss the October chat, where we will be celebrating HOMECOMING with #literacies chat founders Dr. Anna Smith (@anna-phd.bsky.social) and Dr. Emily Pendergrass (@esp-phd.bsky.social)

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 12d

I can’t make it to #literacies chat tonight, but I’ll be catching up later. Have a great convo!

AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 12d

Only 30 min until #literacies chat! Come let your voice be heard as we discuss Censorship and #Literacies.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12d

Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social

National Education Policy Center @nepc.bsky.social · 12d

New policy brief: Educators should reassess the hidden impacts of ed tech ecosystems on teaching, learning, and student data. bit.ly/46C2JXT

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

nepc.colorado.edu

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13d

Yep.

A survey of the post-phone landscape as it exists, though, reveals a complication in this consumerist liberation story. Someday, a new gadget may usher us into the post-smartphone world; in the meantime, the industry will have us trying everything else at once: on our faces, in our ears, around our necks, and on our appendages. Our phones — and the always-on, data-and-attention-hungry logic they represent — aren’t being replaced. They’re being extended.

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 13d

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Censorship and
#Literacies!

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