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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 2h

Back by popular demand, it's our Theory <-> Method Virtual Research Symposium Series! Join us 10/28 @ 7:00 PM CT for When Art Becomes Method: BIPOC Arts as a Premise for Thinking Theory & Justice with Dr. Grace D. Player & Dr. Justin A. Coles Free Registration: tinyurl.com/2026TheoryMethod

THE EDUCATION NOW LAB PRESENTS
Theory <-> Method
Virtual Research Symposium Series
When Art Becomes Method:
BIPOC Arts as a Premise
for Thinking Theory & Justice
October 28 @ 7:00 pm CT
Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut
&
Justin A. Coles, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Free Registration: tinyurl.com/2026TheoryMethod
Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith & the Education Now Lab
Funded by an Instructional Innovation Grant at Illinois State University

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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.

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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.

Tomorrow, the @edunowlab's Reignite! Innovative Teaching and Learning Institute kicks off with @metcalf_school's Mike Jones & Kristi Sutter's session "Impact Starts Here: Building Joy Through Identity and Service."

Reignite! is hosted by the @edunowlab with support from @educationisu & Mary and Robert English Technology Award Endowment created by @illinoisstateu Alumni Mary F. English ’68 and Robert J. English ’66, M.B.A. ’67.

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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.

Tomorrow, the @edunowlab's Reignite! Innovative Teaching and Learning Institute kicks off with @metcalf_school's Kara Story & Kim Carthans' session "Play, Purpose, and Possibility: Building Classrooms That Spark Joy, Connection, and Community."

Reignite! is hosted by the @edunowlab with support from @educationisu & Mary and Robert English Technology Award Endowment created by @illinoisstateu Alumni Mary F. English ’68 and Robert J. English ’66, M.B.A. ’67.

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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

Reconnect. Renew. Reignite your teaching.
Join us for a two-day summer institute designed to help you reconnect with your purpose, rediscover what energizes your teaching, and connect with a community of educators committed to meaningful, innovative practice.

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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...

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Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility with Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Are you considering a doctoral degree in education? Are you interested in making high school science more accessible to blind and low-vision students? 1/5

A flyer that reads: Help make science more accessible to blind and low-vision students. Join Dr. Shaheen’s Lab as a graduate research assistant at Illinois State University starting fall 2026. nlshahe@ilstu.edu.

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Don't miss our next outstanding speaker, Dr. Roderic Crooks, on October 15, 2025, @ 7:00 pm CT. He will speak on his book "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Don't miss the upcoming talk "Research-Creation between Art and Anthropology" with Dr. Kate Hennessy, Simon Fraser University on October 7, 2025 @ 10:00 am CT. Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr... Please share!

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Education Now Lab presents the 2025 Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice free, webinar speaker series! Please share widely! Sign up at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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...

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We also provided the hosting & video editing for the freely available webinar on AI & Composing from the National Council of Research on Language & Literacy (NCRLL, ncrll.org) Watch: ncrll.org/AIandWriting The group also submitted a version for a special issue of ET:PC: emerald.com/insight/cont...

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

To reintroduce ourselves, here are some of our public initiatives: We've had two fabulous public symposia series. At about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/ under Series we have freely available resources & videos from the Theory<->Method and Creatively Critical Tech: Research + Design + Practice series.

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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Happy to join bluer skies! Please follow and share! We are a community-engaged research+practice lab leveraging new & public media for education justice! We host the public Theory<->Method and Critically Creative Tech series with videos & resources available here: about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/

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