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Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” Uncertainty reigns as Trump claims China approved TikTok deal.

"Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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

We pause to honor the extraordinary contributions of Dr. Kylene Beers to NCTE and the literacy field.

Kylene spurred our leadership forward at every turn. Many recognize her as a giant, and she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and as a proud member of the Middle Level section.

Or both at the same time.

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How can we redesign multiliteracies to navigate today’s complex, racialized, and digital landscapes? Find out in @nashb.bsky.social and Allison Skerrett's article in the Spring 2025 issue of #HarvardEdReview: https://bit.ly/42oYfCS

Made this purely for memes, if this becomes true, I demand to be made into a prophet.

This looks so cool!

Redesigning Multiliteracies: What Does It Mean to Design Social Futures in Today's Racialized, Transnational, and Digitized Lifeworlds? In this essay, Brady L. Nash and Allison Skerrett reexamine the New London Group's theory of multiliteracies thirty years after its initial conception, considering how changes in technology, culture, ...

Link here: meridian.allenpress.com/her/article/...

Despite all of the lunacy, I'm excited to share this essay written with my colleague and mentor Allison Skerrett. We look back at #multiliteracies and ask: What kinds of agency are possible today? The 1996 article is being reprinted alongside a new commentary from Cope and Kalantzis. DM for PDF!

Come join us for a free workshop (with free food) at #AERA2025. Feel free to message me with questions!

Really like this framing: "since we can't witness everything ourselves..." Our basic concepts of what is real or happening depend upon our trust in social groups (eg, scientists, reporters) we have learned to assume are relatively correct. Who we trust, what we read/watch/etc. becomes reality.

There's also the planet run by women in season 1

That's what I would do!

Aren't they all just bad faith arguments for "I get the power and you don't" - free speech, states rights/local governance, small government, low taxes, no govt interferement in the economy - each idea abandoned immediately when it doesn't function in the service of power accumulation

Yes, agree. And I think these aspects of the situation aren't mutually exclusive.

Yes, it's not so much a policy change that is causing new harms (so far), it's that the entire federal workforce, including the FAA, is under immense strain from the threats and chaos from the new administration. They received an email asking them to quit the day before the crash.

I'm not elementary but I feel like my approach been to be super curious about the kids and what they're into and that applies I believe to kids of all ages. Would love to read this book when it's out!

I wrote about 4 ideas that seem as timely as ever: 1. The deep link between wealth disparity and climate apocalypse. 2. Technology as the central facilitator of oppression. 3. Surveillance as omnipresent. 4. Digital literacies as a tool for political resistance. DM for PDF!

Technology, Oppression, and Resistance in Speculative Young Adult Fiction - Children's Literature in Education The article offers a close textual analysis of Cindy Pon’s speculative young adult (YA) novels, Want and Ruse, focused on the role of technology as both a facilitator of oppression and a tool for resi...

In Cindy Pon's speculative novels Want and Rise, a fascist government and technology oligarchs conspire to destroy the environment so they can sell technologies that assuage the impacts of pollution. So teenagers become ecoterrorists. What can we learn from them? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There is always available an existential question about whether your actions matter given the giant scope of how things change. What you do does matter even as the world turns though. Great thread from Cody.

I know TikTok aren’t “the good guys” here. Like any massive platform created to addict us, surveil us, & harvest our attention for digital dollars, it is built on extractive logics that are bad.

But god damn—people did amazing stuff on there. Has Instagram Reels ever given us something like this?

Graphic featuring a headline "If you can keep it A zombie lawsuit is rising" with a subtitle "How Supreme Court can now efforts to overturn a threaten the integrity of all future elections". The image includes a stack of books, a gavel, an American flag, and a partially visible North Carolina state flag, set against a geometric background with red and blue stripes.

Image of a text excerpt discussing North Carolina candidate Griffin Jefferson's attempts to challenge election results, mentioning a term "zombie lawsuits" related to exploiting legal loopholes.

Screenshot of a news article from The News&Observer reporting on election deniers filing false claims of fraud to create delays in certifying the winner of a high court election.

Square image with a blue background and white text discussing potential implications of a North Carolina lawsuit on election doctrines. It includes a quote about the Purcell principle and mentions the website ifyoucankeepit.org urging to read more on the topic.

We cover how a strategically timed pre-election lawsuit is reemerging in North Carolina to create a lever for throwing out results after an election-deniers’ preferred candidate lost. Read and share www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-ste...

Let's definitely talk! It's a little bit in that piece, more elsewhere.

100%.The prioritizing of narrative and emotional attachments to ideas, people, etc. when those attachments conflict with true information also isn't some strange aberration or the possession of one incorrect group, it's the way people make sense of the world.

Such a fantastic piece. Packs in and synthesizes a lot of important critiques into a short space.

While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

Premise for a Don't Look Up sequel?

Yes. Constant mistaking the products of thought for thought itself. +The idea that the only thing you need to do yourself is construct the actual words (to create ownership of it). A lot of suggestions for having #AI brainstorm research topics, outlines, arguments. This is the thinking and learning!

Automating Teacher Work? A History of the Politics of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Education - Postdigital Science and Education The debate on automation in education is also a debate on teachers’ work. Throughout history, promises of labor-saving and efficient automation technologies have been repeatedly promoted, while resear...

History of edtech and automation is that actually teacher time is rarely reduced. Rensfeldt, A. B., & Rahm, L. (2023). Automating Teacher Work? A History of the Politics of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Education. Postdigital Science and Education, 5(1), 25–43. doi.org/10.1007/s424...