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mighty chen @adjchen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Algorithms & AI attempt to dominate the way we think and percieve. Framing this as an accident is a… weaponized neutrality?

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I travelled 27 hrs, fought endless visa issues to give this talk for our award-winning paper at #CHI2026. Your turn to show up 📍 P1, Room 112, Apr 15 (Wed), 12 noon. But why? I wish the didn't impact every knowledge worker. Sadly, it does, and we need to talk about it. 1/n

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Graph Time with Sara and Sean @graphtimesarasean.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Graph Time with Sara and Sean is here! On today's episode we try to recreate the vibe of one of the first graphs that ever inspired Sean in Desmos. Watch us play with math and maybe learn a thing or two about graphing along the way! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQiM... #desmos #iteachmath #graphart

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Making Graph Art, Graph Time with Sara and Sean: Episode 1

YouTube video by Graph Time with Sara & Sean

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I fear that this will be how AI plays out in education too: an acknowledged band-aid but better than nothing.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.” Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.

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Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – but we found it can sometimes make it worse

Efforts to simplify teachers’ jobs through technology can backfire without a strong focus on teacher well-being.

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉 It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality. www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...

Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge.

Text from the Table of the Contents.
List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia

PART I — Histories
New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for
Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer

Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan

Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From
Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

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Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim

Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson

PART II - Pedagogies

Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer

Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki

Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen

Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca

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Part 3 - Possibilities

As We May Mark by Remi Kalir

Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton

Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly)
Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien

Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley

Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez

Index

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mighty chen @adjchen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I find it difficult to find the balance between "I want people to take me seriously" and "I want to do shenanigans like publishing this image in academia" Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education, under Literacies in the Platform Society is now out! doi.org/10.4324/9781...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

*New publication alert* I'm excited to share "Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions," a chapter @jmhiggs.bsky.social, @sepehrvakil.bsky.social, and I wrote for Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities. 🧵

The cover of the book "Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities" edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia.

The chapter abstract. The abstract reads, "This chapter takes up the question of how we understand “literacies” in relation to platform technologies—and specifically, the benefits or drawbacks of extending the term to include competencies related to platformization. Merging insights from sociocultural literacy studies and computer science education research on “computational literacies,” we argue that there are both institutional and pragmatic challenges for literacy researchers to consider in choosing the terminology they use. Institutionally, while the interest of STEM fields in adopting the language of “literacy” may appear to lend prestige to literacy research (and researchers), it also risks reproducing “Great Divide” narratives that the field of sociocultural literacy studies has long critiqued. This relates to the pragmatic challenge that, in allowing the term “literacies” to be stretched too broadly, it may lose its capacity to explain those aspects of platforms and platformizations that are more closely associated with reading, writing, and textual practice. While there are no definitive lines to be drawn for when and how the term “literacies” ought to be used, the chapter offers questions and considerations to aid researchers and teachers in making their own determinations."

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

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Amplify Education @amplifyeducation.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📢 Your favorite math teaching platform is expanding to more subjects! 🎉 On June 28, Desmos Classroom becomes Amplify Classroom as we broaden our free lessons to science and literacy. Enjoy all the activities and features you love, plus so much more! 🔗 amplify.com/AmplifyClassroomFAQ

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mighty chen @adjchen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

i just want to finish this essay, but i keep running into a hole of “our education system is supposed to be a factory” and then I have no argument and no way to get out of it

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Ethan Mollick says that higher education is in 'absolute chaos' because technology is changing faster than the industry is willing to change" - ah, the old "blame the slow, reluctant educators" trick, designed to deflect valid criticism and pushback of the tech industry that caused the problem

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mighty chen @adjchen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

do teachers need or want a "one stop shop" for all their teaching tools? is it better to have 5 platforms with good features that can't talk to each other or to have 1 coherent platform with 5 mid features?

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