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Education Now Lab

@edunowlab.bsky.social

Led by @anna-phd.bsky.social, the Education Now Lab is a community-engaged research+practice lab engaging in & producing a range of public, academic & new media scholarship toward education justice.

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

a collection of pictures from the Reignite Institute with people playing with coding, sharing teaching ideas, flying drowns, posing for a group picture, and at the center a picture of two educators hauling two wagons and multiple bins on a cart and it says, "And that's a wrap! Reignite! 2026"a collection of pictures on what look like polariod picture frames and in the center it says Reignite 2026 Memories in a square that looksl ike when you can save a a file. The pictures show teachers learning how to do flipbook animation, talking to each other deeply.
Anna Smith@anna-phd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Need a little bright spot in your doomscrolling? Thanks to the team in the School of Teaching & Learning at @illinoisstateu.bsky.social for this story about our @edunowlab.bsky.social's ARCs grant! news.illinoisstate.edu/2026/01/educ...

Education Now Lab receives ARCS Tier II grant to build an inclusive future for teaching and learning

A team with the Education Now Lab is exploring how emerging technologies can be used to better understand and address longstanding educational dilemmas.

news.illinoisstate.edu

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice@lrtmp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📖 To read Mollie V. Blackburn’s Invited Address given at the 2024 Literacy Research Association Conference, visit: doi.org/10.1177/2381... 🤝Created in partnership with @edunowlab.bsky.social (2/2)

Wavering and Pushing: Languaging Nationality in a High School LGBTQ+-Themed Literature Course - Mollie V. Blackburn, 2025

This study focuses on languaging about nationality in an LGBTQ+-themed literature classroom in a queer-friendly high school in the midwestern region of the Unit...

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Anna Smith@anna-phd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Final call! We have to manually send out the invite, so sign up sooner than later! We'll do one last send out tomorrow afternoon.

Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research "Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

flyer with photo of Dr. Cynthia Bennett with the text November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility with Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research
Anna Smith@anna-phd.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share! Did you miss the presidential session at #AERA2025? Join us to take a "creatively critical" look at teaching ecological approaches to AI with @charleswlogan.bsky.social! Bonus project spotlights from Dr. Natalie Shaheen, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social!

Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us on May 14 @ 6pm CT for the Creatively Critical Tech series with @charleswlogan.bsky.social on "After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI" w/spotlights from Dr. Natalie Shaheen, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social Sign up -> tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

Event flyer with profile pictures of the speakers and the text: Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab at Illinois State University Sponsored by the ISU Office of Research and Graduate Studies The Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech After the Capture of AI Literacy: Teaching Ecological Approaches to AI Charles Logan Northwestern University May 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CT Sign up @ https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical Project Spotlights A11y in Sci Dr. Natalie Shaheen Illinois State University Ankara In Motion Fikayo Olutomiwa Illinois State University LRTMP Public Scholarship Initiative Viraj Patel Illinois State University
Viraj V. Patel@boyfrombombay.bsky.social · 2y ago

Scholarship impacts everyday practice. Working alongside authors of articles in Vol. 73 of @lrtmp.bsky.social, to articulate how research can be used to leverage on-the-ground literacy practices has been tremendously rewarding. Massive kudos to @anna-phd.bsky.social and @edunowlab.bsky.social 🥳

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice@lrtmp.bsky.social · 2y ago

✨ @lrtmp.bsky.social & @edunowlab.bsky.social announce the launch of our Public Scholarship Initiative! 🔔 Stay tuned! We'll be sharing Vol 73 articles w/public media pieces made in collab w/authors & @edunowlab.bsky.social with @anna-phd.bsky.social, Fikayo Olutomiwa & @boyfrombombay.bsky.social

Green and white background with profile pictures of Anna Smith, Fikayo Olutomiwa, and Viraj Patel with the text Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice and the Education Now Lab PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE The co-editors of Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice are pleased to announce the launch of our Public Scholarship Initiative in collaboration with the authors of LRTMP, Vol. 73 and the Education Now Lab's Dr. Anna Smith, Fikayo Olutomiwa, and Viraj Patel.
Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stay tuned! Our public scholarship initiative with @lrtmp.bsky.social launches this week with media collaboratively created with the authors of the articles in LRTMP, Vol 3 and Education Now Lab's @anna-phd.bsky.social, Fikayo Olutomiwa, and @boyfrombombay.bsky.social!

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice@lrtmp.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 Publication alert! 💡 Ling Hao’s article “Uplifting the Voices of Asian American Parents Through an Online Family Book Club: Elicited and Silenced Cultural Knowledge” is now live at journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx

Text on a light background of books arranged diagonally Uplifting the Voices of Asian American Parents Through an Online Family Book Club: Elicited and Silenced Cultural Knowledge Ling Hao This ethnographic case study explores how parents' participation in reading experiences influenced children's responses to culturally relevant texts. In an online family book club, parents and children sat together, read culturally relevant picture books, and discussed the books after reading. The book clubs helped children recognize parents as cultural resources and reading partners, which helped children make personal and cultural connections Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice Bluesky @LRTMP Facebook LRTMP Instagram @LR_TMP Created in partnership with the Education Now Lab. Check out Volume 73!
Education Now Lab@edunowlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're excited to partner with @lrtmp.bsky.social for a brand new initiative to broaden the audiences and interlocutors of the research published in LRA's journal Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice. Stay tuned!

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice@lrtmp.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're here! Please help us share the word! Volume 73 is going Online First now at journals.sagepub.com/home/LRX When the Volume is bundled, we'll start sharing about each of the articles, and we'll launch our public multimedia scholarship initiative in collaboration with @edunowlab.bsky.social!

Comics panels with a megaphone with the text: @lrtmp.bsky.social Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice. We're here!