Lalitha Vasudevan
@lmv.bsky.social
Teachers College; Digital Futures Institute; Media and Social Change Lab
Re-posting this here while watching the clock count down the minutes until @aeraedresearch.bsky.social proposals are due... "The Architecture of Academic Overproduction: Toward Post-AI Scholarship www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #DigitalHumanism
The Architecture of Academic Overproduction: Toward Post-AI Scholarship | Teachers College Digital Futures Institute
📖 Publication alert: The Architecture of Academic Overproduction: Toward Post-AI Scholarship Academic publishing has been racing toward "more" for decades — more articles, more co-authors, more journ...
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A little thread on AI and #HigherEd 1. "All in" may not be the most prudent approach when it comes to ai, especially if the players involved aren't sure of what that actually means via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m... #highered
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
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Appreciated this conversation between Mishal Husain and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social about privacy as vital for democracy and free society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC4S...
AI Wants Your Life: Tech Boss Meredith Whittaker Says No | The Mishal Husain Show
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Did I mishear and think it was “drinking in the kitchen?” Yes. Was I hoping sandwiches were involved? Also yes. On this Pop & Play Srikala and @wargojon.bsky.social get salty, paddle the highball right out of my hand, and teach the not so ancient art of Pickleball. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Is Pickleball all about Dinking in the Kitchen?
Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · May 19 · 34m
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“Ryan Atwood explains crypto to the masses” was not on my bingo card. #theoc www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everyone_i...
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Appreciated this episode featuring @add-hawk.bsky.social in conversation with Pop and Play co-hosts @haenyyoon.bsky.social & @snowdaylearninglab.org A fave bit: profs who (unironically) assign Foucault & then set up heavily surveilled test environments 😆 #goplay podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Can Rules in Games Help Us Find Deeper Freedom?
Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · April 14 · 44m
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Humane research innovation that leverages emerging tech to pose new Qs & address familiar Qs in new ways. That’s the premise of the Early Researcher Innovation Network (ERIN) we launched last fall at @tcdigitalfuture.bsky.social Learn more: www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur... #highered #community
Getting to Know DFI's Early Research Innovation Network (ERIN)
In this interview, learn more from Dr. OreOluwa Badaki, Co-Director of this new program that supports early career scholars in multimodal research at the Digital Futures Institute—Teachers College, Co...
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Censorship of motion pictures was enough of a concern in the early 1900s that The People's Institute issued a report, The Menace of Motion Picture Censorship, containing pointed political cartoons that serve as a rallying cry against censorship and aims to appeal to readers' sense of logic. #HR7661
Rooster may keep me watching simply because of the title song sung by Michael Stipe. ... And sure, I'm also a sucker for tv that attempts to capture the academic experience. ... *attempts* ...
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Take 30 minutes and enjoy the latest pop-off episode of Pop & Play in which co-hosts @snowdaylearninglab.org and @haenyyoon.bsky.social ponder the *totally uncontroversial* question: What counts as reading? #readingwars #literacy #whatisreading #reading #dopeoplestillusehashtags #shrug
Is listening to an audiobook reading? Are graphic novels good for early readers, or should kids be passing on the pictures for chapter books? When wading into the reading wars, how quickly can @haenyyoon.bsky.social and Nathan get cancelled?
This was an excellent plenary talk by @alondra.bsky.social in which she artfully reframes what can often seem like a binary abyss of bad and worse choices regarding ai: www.youtube.com/live/IZFurJB... (First ~ 30 mins) #iaseai26
IASEAI'26 - (Room I)
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As always, thorough and thoughtful reporting from @jillbarshay.bsky.social "The damage is cumulative and will unfold over years. ... the deeper loss belongs to the children and teachers who will never benefit from the knowledge that would have been generated."
A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
A refreshing critique of Haidt's oft-cited tome that refers to an entire generation of youth as the anxious recipients of unregulated access to smartphones. "We’re not “anxious” just because of TikTok. Sometimes, the world is just objectively overwhelming — phones or not."
"We are not the anxious generation." On the blog, youth online safety advocate Maximilian Milovidov argues that youth perspective is missing from adults' conversations about the impact of the internet on kids' mental health. joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/11/06/w...
Learning requires friction. Good learning environments reduce unproductive friction. They also provide support so learners can work through productive friction. Using AI to remove all friction removes the learner from what is to be learned. Doing difficult things is entirely the point!
I spent a lot of time this semester explaining why it produces bad work but at the end of the day, they're being asked to do a thing they find difficult, and this makes it easy for them, without any meaningful consequence. And the university encourages them to use it.
Apparently we are doing this tomorrow (see @snowdaylearninglab.org's post 👇) It's been a while since I last stretched a social media muscle, so expect a rusty and clunky performance on the part of yours truly. I assume I'll go full Buscemi. #popplaypod
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Join us 11/13 at 9:15pm ET for a live chat to continue the conversation about play, music, and community. @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I will be joined by episode guest @brownellcassie.bsky.social and @lmv.bsky.social, but we want to talk to you too! Follow this feed and/or tag #popoff or #popplaypod
Sobering and important interview with Tom Brock, Director of Community College Research Center at @teacherscollege.bsky.social on how loss of federal funding stalls research insights that impact educational policy, practice, and overall student experience. www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...
Community College Research Collateral Damage at Columbia
The Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College lost several million dollars of federal funds. Director Thomas Brock describes how the center is pushing forward.
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More on the impacts of fed funding cuts, via @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/what-the-whi...
What the federal freeze on spending means for education
Several programs, such as Pell Grants, Title I funding for low-income schools and special education funding are not subject to the federal freeze.
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Always happy to join Haeny Yoon & @snowdaylearninglab.org on Pop & Play. In this pop-off, we discuss the direct & immediate impacts of federal funding cuts to research infrastructure & related programming (afterschool, extracurricular) that directly serves children and their communities.
Always happy to join Haeny Yoon & @snowdaylearninglab.org on Pop & Play. In this pop-off, we discuss the direct & immediate impacts of federal funding cuts to research infrastructure & related programming (afterschool, extracurricular) that directly serves children and their communities.
The GOP’s destruction of granting agencies like NSF and NIH is decimating the scientific community. On this episode we tried to provide a clear and brief explanation of what has happened and why it matters for those that may not be familiar. Listen and share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET. www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
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200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
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Having observed various social science 'turns' - social, cultural, narrative, digital, material - I brace for the eventual (inevitable?) emergence of "the 'artificial' turn" as an explanatory phrase in written scholarship.
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Playful, participatory, collective, invitational -- block off 26 minutes and enjoy story time, courtesy of your Pop & Play co-hosts and their Season 5 guests.
On this week's season finale of Pop & Play, find out how Earth is finally destroyed and how cats are involved. "What's poppin' at the end of the world: A story episode." share.transistor.fm/s/5fd8ab8b
All of these podcasts will be featured in a session at #AERA2025 in a roundtable session: Podcasts as Public Scholarship: (Re)Imagining Theories in Everyday Life (Table 6) Now, more than ever, facility with multi-platform and transmediated communication that reaches broad(er) audiences is needed.
Whilst pondering the space between the unsayable & "must be said" w/regards to the recent EOs... I offer this 🧵 on edu podcasts that promote the fullness of education flourishing in multiple forms - playful, silly, embodied, invitational, unsettled. (all produced at @teacherscollege.bsky.social)
Whilst pondering the space between the unsayable & "must be said" w/regards to the recent EOs... I offer this 🧵 on edu podcasts that promote the fullness of education flourishing in multiple forms - playful, silly, embodied, invitational, unsettled. (all produced at @teacherscollege.bsky.social)
The number of young people in detention is lower than before — Still: Racial disparities in youth incarceration are the widest they've been in decades www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n...
Racial disparities in youth incarceration are the widest they've been in decades
The number of American children and teenagers in juvenile detention has sharply declined over the last few decades, but as overall numbers decrease, data shows Black and Native American youth are far ...
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