Might anyone know of a small, non-intimidating zine-y guidebook that helps folks navigate the logistics (+ ethics) of *collaborative* publication — demystifying the design + production process; explaining formatting + rights clearances; addressing mutual accountability + collaborative review, etc.?

Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?

This publication was prompted by an invitation from Mariame Kaba to join her in a discussion titled: Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism

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I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

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Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · last yr.

SOME NEWS! the folks at Anthology Editions / Mexican Summer decided to print another 1500 copies of #othernetworks (out in Oct.) because it sold out so quickly! THANK YOU to all of you for ordering a copy & helping to make this reprint possible 😍 1/2 loriemerson.net/books/other-...

We have an article coming out this month that it sounds like is going to sing beautifully with this one! Let’s get this chorus singing loudly — resistance/refusal of the inundation of edtech & AIED in the service of technocratic control of education!

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.

This was so much fun! Educators, be on the lookout for registration early 2027 and mark your calendars for June!

Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · 2w ago

From start to finish—sandbox sessions to advocacy hours—Reignite! Innovative Teaching & Learning Institute was a joy! Get educators in a room together feeling reconnected to their purpose, creativity, commitment to students…&sparks fly! Mark your calendars 6/2027 & join us for next year’s Reignite!

We get to continue our @edunowlab.bsky.social Theory <- -> Method Virtual Series! Who should we invite!? Anyone w/ a newer book that has implications for thinking about the tight relationship btwn theory & research methods? Check out our past awesome speakers: about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/th...

We have such cool colleagues in our lab schools!

Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reignite! Innovative Teaching & Learning Institute kicks off w/ Metcalf Lab School's Mike Jones & Kristi Sutter's session "Impact Starts Here: Building Joy Through Identity and Service." Support by @illinoisstateu.bsky.social's COE & Mary & Robert English Technology Award Endowment.

This is going to be so much fun!

Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reignite! Innovative Teaching & Learning Institute kicks off w/ Metcalf Lab School's Kara Story & Kim Carthans: "Play, Purpose & Possibility: Building Classrooms that Spark Joy, Connection & Community." Support by @illinoisstateu.bsky.social's COE & Mary & Robert English Technology Award Endowment.

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

old media are the new cool—-

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

There’s a point in a career when people you taught or mentored come back to you, adults with whole lives, and it’s weird that i’m still 30-years-old. Weird!

I’ve never seen this site so focused on one thing and I have to say, I kind of love it. It’s been a long time since I’ve experienced a watch party on social media. I’ve missed it!

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

An excellent use case for why people really need to be able to define “AI” and recognize it’s an umbrella term, not a synonym for heavyweight commercial LLMs/frontier models.

Dr Naomi Scott@drnaomiscott.bsky.social · last mo.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.

So excited about this 2nd edition; pls share widely! Theories of #reading and #literacy only come alive when approached from the standpoint of practice. Includes inset discussions from @anna-phd.bsky.social, George Hruby, Tom Crumpler, Terry Husband, and Marcelle Haddix. #EduSky #AcademicSky

Teachers College Press@tcpress.bsky.social · last mo.

Out now! Literacy Theory as Practice by Lara J. Handsfield! Updated for the Science of Reading, multilingual classrooms, and literacy teaching in the age of AI. Available Now at Teachers College Press: www.tcpress.com/products/lit... #LiteracyEducation #K12Education #ScienceOfReading

Paper I just reviewed was this—“pristine but dead.” I couldn’t figure out how to explain it. And though it had a “so what,” it was so banal and repeated throughout with no development across the argument. But there…in all the places it was supposed to be. It said nothing. Just “pristine but dead.”

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More and more, submissions follow template-like formats, with 3- or 4-part frameworks, numbered major findings, and bullet point-like lists of conclusions and implications. The text is pristine but dead. It reads like prose but feels uncanny like those human-like robots somehow. 3/

Any of my #literacies teacher friends in Wisconsin? I'd love to see you in a couple of weeks! And peep who I get to present alongside! Here's the registration link with more info: www.uwosh.edu/continuous-l...

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This is going to be so fun! Share with your educator friends in Illinois and the midwest...unless they want to fly in ;)

Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us for Reignite! A Summer Institute for Innovative Teaching & Learning on from 10:00-3:00 on July 16 and 17, 2026 at @illinoisstateu.bsky.social Registration: $30/person; includes two lunches and 10 PD hours; Space is limited to 100 participants. REGISTER TODAY @ tinyurl.com/ISUReignite

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Respectfully, some of you NEED less time online. Your thing will help. Go make it. And if you're not the making-thing type? Volunteer to girdle invasive trees at your local nature center. Teach knitting at the fiber arts collective. Learn to make kimchi and give it away to friends.

Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.

Folks in English and/or Rhet/Comp: I want to read from those fields and organize a syllabus-esque doc that I share with current classroom English teachers to (re)visit that land they likely left after graduation. What books should I read? I don't want books about teaching ELA or literacy.

Come join @civicsoftech.bsky.social's May book club on Wed, May 20, at 7pm ET. I'll be leading a discussion of @fractalecho.bsky.social's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong About AI - and Dr. Williams is joining too! Register at: www.civicsoftechnology.org/book-clubs

I really thought American Vandal had maxed out its niche, but a LOT of new listeners finding us this week. Thanks, avaricious EdTech investors, I guess. If you’re new to AV, & you enjoyed “The Secret History of Canvas,” here are a few episodes you might want to check out next… 🧵

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A very long but essential listen if you have anything to do with higher education in the age of AI. Sobering and illuminating in equal part. (And if your marking is currently immobilised on Canvas, also deeply pertinent). Many thanks to @benpatrickwill.bsky.social for highlighting it.

'Technology firms see the university as a gigantic data farm; they are not invested in our students or the learning process, only in harvesting the attention of an entire generation of users, who will be addicted to their product for the rest of their adult lives.' #GenAI #resistAI #spéirgorm

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now feels like an opportune time to recirculate this piece from last December.