Orange book cover of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

@breesebbusyphd.bsky.social is unstoppable! With her 11th Grade English students, she has launched a project where they are reading and commenting on "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," doing scientific explorations, connecting to a living archives history project. 1/ #EduSky #EduskyAI #AIinEdu

Announcing the second and third of our four monthly events, a bi-monthly Scribble on the first and third Wed of every month. Come write with us at Dessert Oasis! Bring your WIPs and your amazing faces, and we'll be there.

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!

Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

One question and four responses by 9th Graders in a silent Socratic Dialogue-style chat session about Jason Reynolds book Long Way Down.

When 9th Graders participate in a silent Socratic Dialogue-style chat session on writingpartners.net about Jason Reynolds's "Long Way Down," they quickly produce a 40-page transcript. Their teacher wonders: How can I even read all of this, let alone assess it? 1/ #EduSkyAI #EduSky #AIinEdu

Moving Writers’ Guide to Authentic Writing in Each Mode I’ve been working on an 11-page digital primer to begin changing the way we think about research-writing. No more semester-long research papers, rife with inauthentic, teacher-driven rules an…

I've been thinking a lot about the death of the research paper and the rise of authentic research in EVERY mode of writing ...
#edusky #english #ela

movingwriters.org/2025/01/11/m...

Check this out @jessycamathews.bsky.social @bnjmnkwdcck.bsky.social @aschoenborn.bsky.social @zellnoid.bsky.social @ebonyteach.bsky.social @kasalfinley.bsky.social @mrbgilson.bsky.social

Join us for a special Tuesday evening TTT meet-up. Tonight, Dec. 3rd at 8E/7C/6M/5P we will center our conversations on Barrett Rosser, the lead researcher for a project to build ‘living archives’ of Black histories with Philadelphia teachers and students. We'll see you in Kumospace.com/youthvoices.

About 15 years ago we started the #literacies chat over on the bird app. It provided so many meaningful conversations & connections over the years. This includes some of those people & others in the field. Let me know who else I can add (and follow!) as we work to rebuild here! go.bsky.app/HZLhPr

Tomorrow’s #literacies chat with @nicole-mirra.bsky.social on “The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season” will take place at 5pm/8pm. Join us!

Graphic with a cream-colored background and a dotted border at the top and bottom, featuring blue and orange dots. The text reads: 'Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice. Call for Reviewers. Review Window: February 11 to March 14, 2025.' A QR code is prominently displayed in the center. Below the QR code, there is additional text: 'Or visit: ttps://about.illinoisstate.edu/lrtmp/. Doctoral students welcome to volunteer!

🔍 LR:TMP (Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice), a journal of the Literacy Research Association, is looking for reviewers for Volume 74 (2025)!

💡 Most reviewers evaluate no more than 2 (two) manuscripts between Feb. 11–Mar. 14, 2025.

Learn more & sign up: about.illinoisstate.edu/lrtmp/

The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution: How Every Employee Is Becoming A Technology Creator Artificial intelligence is democratizing technology creation across organizations, enabling employees, from nurses to accountants, to build their own solutions.

"The concept that humans are becoming more tech-savvy and more comfortable w/ technology is converging with technology becoming progressively more human and human friendly," says Ian Barkin, co-author of 'All Hands on Tech.' Let’s join the AI-Powered Citizen Revolution www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

Thank you to all the folks posting from #ncte24. So sad to be missing the conversation this year in person, and so grateful for this space to still listen in.

So happy and proud of the continued work Dr. Thomas is doing in Michigan. Congratulations!

It’s easy to mentor people that also inspire YOU to be better & do better. Congrats Jason, & thank you for ALL you continue to do for Michigan educators and Ss despite the challenges & pushback you have faced 💙

America’s literacy crisis isn’t what you think This is what happens when kids don’t read for pleasure anymore.

This: www.vox.com/culture/3862...

Toolbox | Science - Center for Whole-Child Education (Turnaround for Children) The Science section of the Turnaround for Children Toolbox empowers educators with the resources dive deep into research on how kids really learn and develop.

ASU's Center for Whole-Child Development offers 5 takeaways from the "Science of Learning & Development (SoLD)":

1. Development is Bi-Directional
2. Context Matters
3. Learning is Integrated
4. Pathways are Unique
5. Student Voice is Critical

turnaroundusa.org/toolbox/scie... #EduSky

See a preview of our #NCTE panel tonight at 8E/7C/6M/5P on TTT at kumospace.com/youthvoices - Teaching Secondary Writing in the Generative Age: Bonnee Breese Bentum, Tanya Baker, Jess Early and me. Sat, Nov 23, 2024 8:15 AM - 9:30 AM Room 258 C Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Meeting Level 2

Please let the other group members from the old place know that they can find us here in the Blue Sky Ballroom.

Hate The Game This week I read two GenAI stories that seem to be capturing the current status of the rise of GenAI and the impacts it’s having on our learning environments. Marc Watkins, whose substack rec…

Check out my newest writing on #GenAI: heyhuman.blog/2024/11/17/h...
#artificialintelligence #aieducation