It’s Special Issue Summer for #HackYourStack at @cite-ela.bsky.social! First up is @mraleosays.bsky.social! In addition to his study, check out our video essay card on Notion for mentor texts, scholarship, and teaching resources for video essays. bit.ly/hackyourstack1

📚New Pub! Ashlynn Kogut, Sharon Matthews, and Ambyr Rios write on “Preservice Teachers’ Choice of Online Popular Sources to Inform Evidence-Based Practice: An Application of the WHY Method to Education Source Evaluation.” Check it out!

📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Wendy Williams writes on “Capturing Stories in Motion: Visual Elements as Tools for Analyzing and Composing Animated Narratives.” Check it out!

📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Mary Elizabeth Talian, Jen Freed, @clarabbott.bsky.social, Julia Adler & @amystorn.bsky.social discuss "Learning Alongside Youth in an Online Writing Community: A Digital Field Site for Teacher Learning”!

📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Caitlin Donovan, Janell Miller, and Hannah Moehrke write on “Potent Pedagogy for Critical Engagement: Music Videos as Texts in Secondary English Classrooms.” Check it out!

📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Beth Krone and Patricia Enciso write on “Tracing 'My Hero Academia’ Fandom Composing Practices in a Seventh-Grade Superhero Storytelling Project.” Check it out!

Check out our guest editors’ @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, and @rabani.bsky.social editorial introduction to our new special issue series, outlining “The Complexities of Teaching with Digital Texts for ELA Teachers and Teacher Educators”!

📚New Pub! Kicking off our guest edited special issue series on digital texts and how to teach them, Emily Plummer Catena and F. Blake Tenore write on “Examining Educators’ Social Media Use to Support Digital, Civically Engaged English Teaching”. Check it out!

📚New Pub! Kicking off our guest edited special issue series on digital texts and how to teach them, @mraleosays.bsky.social writes on “Pixels, Prose, and Literary Knowledge Production: Cultivating Aesthetic Literacies Through Audiovisual Essay Composing”. Check it out!

Congrats to our guest editors @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, @rabani.bsky.social and contributor @mraleosays.bsky.social for receiving the National Technology Leadership Initiative Fellowship for their project "Digital Texts and How to Teach Them: #HackYourStack Initiative."

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and @anna-phd.bsky.social write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, Dominique McDaniel and Matthew Osborn write “From Platforms to Pedagogy: Exploring How Youth’s Social Media Practices Can Shape Teacher Education Through Culturally Digitized Pedagogy.” Check it out!

The final issue of our series on critical perspectives on digital platforms in ELA teacher education is published. We are so grateful to all of our brilliant contributors. Check it out!

📚 Check out another new pub from our special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: “Teachers’ Orientations Toward Texts and Tools: Critical (Re)Consideration of a Remix and Restory Assignment as a Teacher Educator."

📚 From our ongoing special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: “Exploring Ethics of Multimodal Composition with AI: Student and Educator Perspectives on Evaluating and Using Generative Models in the Classroom."

📚 And another: "Empowering ELA Teachers: Recommendations for Teacher Education in the AI Era" from Kennedy & Castek reveals how teachers are often positioned as objects rather than decision-makers in AI discourse. Read here: tinyurl.com/sza442zb

📚 From our ongoing special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: "Becoming a Teacher of Writing in an AI-Assisted World" by Kershen & Johnson examines the need for stronger theoretical perspectives on teacher identity re: AI writing platforms. Read more: tinyurl.com/2vcfrk6z

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