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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · 7d

ISLS submission deadline extended to Oct 13

islsnews.bsky.social @islsnews.bsky.social · 7d

The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wrote a new piece for Vox on AI and cheating that has some new data from the past school year mentioned.

www.vox.com/technology/4...

I study AI cheating. Here’s what the data actually says.

What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong.

www.vox.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 26

At this $65,000 a year AI-driven school, there are no teachers.

Students study for two hours a day using apps and personalized lesson plans and spend their afternoons on life skills such as financial literacy.

For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia

At Alpha School, a new private school in Northern Virginia, students will study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Aug 20

Announcing Information and Learning Sciences Special Issue: Co-Design as Method and Object of Study – Current Trends and Future Directions

Focus is educational co-design. See link below for more info

Please share freely.
#learningsciences

www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

Co-Design as Method and Object of Study: Current Trends and Future Directions

This special issue of Information and Learning Sciences invites contributions exploring collaborative design (co-design) in education—an approach wherein educators, community members, and others work ...

www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 25

My new book is now officially out. May this be useful to people getting their bearings in this growing field.

Available on Amazon, Barnes and noble web, publisher website, etc

Book cover for Advancing Data Science Education in K12

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 20

New open access article, survey study of teachers in an urban school district (over 1400 teachers)

PD for gen AI in schools can't be one size fits all, grade level, subject area, years of experience all have different takes and needs to address

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A cross-sectional look at teacher reactions, worries, and professional development needs related to generative AI in an urban school district - Education and Information Technologies

Public interest has surged around artificial intelligence (AI) due to new capabilities demonstrated by new AI chatbot technologies, such as ChatGPT. This study investigates teachers’ immediate percept...

link.springer.com

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 9

look forward to seeing you continue to contribute to our collective, intersiciplinary understanding of the complexities of human learning across settings (imho, one of the *most* interesting topics to study!)
Cheers!

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 9

things interesting! I’m just pleased that we can have a respectful conversation on social media (rare!) and you can promote your publication and I can connect people to additional work that will be of interest. This is not a zero sum game, and I

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 9

As you saw, I mentioned multiple authors beyond carraher and think of still others. Being in a highly interdisciplinary field, I am used to excellent scholars wanting to deploy a range of methods and structure questions in discipline appropriate ways. It keeps

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Feb 8

Here’s a strategy: 1) establish the frames, what problems will these changes cause, how will they impact communities; 2) inspire people to use those frames to tell their own stories of their families or communities are impacted; 3) amplify those stories.

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Feb 8

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities.

It's deadly to the US economy.

The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

2. While NSF and NIH indeed have a mission to fund specific research innovations via grantmaking, they do a lot more than that.

Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Feb 8

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Feb 8

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.

For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 8

I’ve added your paper to my files for anyone asking for more recent or larger N confirmations of this context/transfer challenge that I typically introduce with older pieces

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 8

*but* good science always confirms and keeps checking across contexts. So thanks for adding to that, and I think we both encourage readers to look to what you have now published which took obviously much work, and the cumulative body of work preceding it (and to follow) as well.

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 8

Again, genuine congrats on a piece in nature. abbreviated social media posts don’t show details and you cite carraher - I welcome more confirmation and empirical support, and react with the sense that I accepted these points already since graduate school

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 7

Utah State is saying goodbye to its new president less than a year and a half since she started. Looking forward to the deets from friends and former colleagues.

www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

Utah State University president suddenly quits after embattled tenure, says she plans to leave state

Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell is stepping down as the president of Utah State University — after she spent only a year and a half at the helm of the Logan school, which still is dogged by allegations of ...

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · Feb 6

"School librarians are the architects of a more understanding, empathetic world. By getting kids to love stories, they’re encouraging them to love and better understand their fellow human." —Newbery Honor author @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb... #TLSky

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 7

You know I had you for a seminar last year!

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Feb 7

Congrats for publishing in nature, but hasn’t this been established since the 1980s by lave, saxe, carraher, and others and already launched an entire field?

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California Department of Education @cadepted.bsky.social · Jan 29

President Trump issued an executive order to find out what education funds he can legally rescind based on curriculum he doesn’t like. Existing law already answers that question —nothing.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · Dec 19

Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪

It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

Cover of the report - it's in a blue/purple color scheme and shows an abstract illustration of a molecule and the title of the report "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science Consensus Study Report"

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Nov 21

It’s back now

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Victor R. Lee @vicariouslee.bsky.social · Nov 21

Reddit is down in case you were wondering

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Heidi Schweingruber @hschweingruber.bsky.social · Nov 21

Education peeps, we released a new report today on scaling and sustaining innovations in STEM education. Overview available here. Report is free online and download able PDF.
nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/279...

Scaling and Sustaining Pre-K-12 STEM Education Innovations Systemic Challenges, Systemic Responses

nap.nationalacademies.org

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