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Cassie Brownell (she/her)

@brownellcassie.bsky.social
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2024 NAEd/Spencer Postdoc Fellow | Associate Prof @ U. of Toronto | Playing the role of researcher across 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦 through June 2025 www.cassiebrownell.com

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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Okay, #literacies pals, I need help. My almost 9 yo niece LOVED Dolly Parton; my bro told her the news and she excused herself to her “office” to cry. 💔 Dolly is (I think) the first person she’s “known” to die; besides The Invisible String, what’s a good book for her?
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 26/08/2026
Fun to hang with you all tonight! And if you haven't yet checked out our podcast Pop & Play, give it a listen and let us know what you think tc.edu/popandplay We're super normal...ish. #literacies
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doctor of softboyology @vea.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is fun! A new paper by @suraju.bsky.social et al uses critical discourse analysis to see how people reacting to Heated Rivalry articulate how/whether queerness and hockey can coexist. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Pals! It’s #GiveNOLA Day! I’m raising $$$ for the kid-DJs of Be Loud Studios! My goal: 100 unique donors (they’ll win EXTRA money!)! Donate as little as 10 USD if you have the will & want to support kids! Bonus: A kid-DJ may call you during their thank-a-thon today! www.givenola.org/story/f0tbbf
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Support Be Loud with Me! on GiveNOLA Day
Be Loud is supporting youth to speak up and make change this summer--join me!
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 14/04/2026
This conversation with @add-hawk.bsky.social about his new book The Score was a blast! We fully geek out on the nuances of play and games, how to deal with forced value capture (*cough* tenure), and why @haenyyoon.bsky.social is a game skeptic. Listen and share with anyone wrestling with metrics!
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Can Rules in Games Help Us Find Deeper Freedom? | Pop and Play | Episode 14
Can rules give us more freedom? How can games help us make life more process oriented instead of outcome oriented? Can these questions about games help us think about teaching? This week Haeny and Nat...
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @handle.invalid · 05/03/2026
Hyped to share an article that just dropped in English Teaching: Practice and Critique. In it, we examine how participating children in the Coastal Climate Kids Collective "voiced" climate action through drawing & dreaming about new climate futures. Read it here! doi.org/10.1108/ETPC... #literacies
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 10/02/2026
Inspired by the courage of the people of Minnesota, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg separately wrote and recorded songs of protest. Helluva way to put play to work! Music educator Dr. Patrick Schmidt joins Pop & Play to talk about protest music—also known as “music.”
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Protest Music and Striking Notes of Resistance
Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · 02/10/2026 · 34m
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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Absolutely loved chairing this #LRA2025 panel - so much powerful child-centered #literacies research happening right now! Thank you @zach-ryan.bsky.social @brownellcassie.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social Mandy Shimizu and Haeny Yoon for sharing your brilliance!
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @handle.invalid · 04/12/2025
Many congrats to Dr. @philnichols.bsky.social and team for receiving the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association conference! You can read the winning article here (ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) #literacies
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @handle.invalid · 20/11/2025
Skipped some afternoon sessions to checkout Mile Hi Pickleball here in Denver #NCTE2025
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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Oh hey look! My other book was announced! This one was specifically written for pre-service and current teachers who want to bring the #learningsciences into their practice. I wrote the chapter on emotions and shoe horned critical LS into every crack possible. www.routledge.com/Introducing-...
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Introducing the Learning Sciences: Insights and Implications for Teaching
Learning Sciences is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary field that investigates how people learn and applies these insights to improve educational practices. This essential textbook introduces the field...
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @handle.invalid · 22/11/2025
Congrats to @brownellcassie.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE25 Media Literacy award! Whoo Hoo!
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Tiffany Larson, PhD @tiffanyrlarson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Going to #ncte25? Here’s a good place to start planning your schedule!
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Dear #NCTE25 #NCTE2025 pals — just a reminder that it’s VERY easy to catch the train into the city! And it’s only $10! You can even download the RTD app and buy (AND activate!) your ticket on your phone! rtddenver.justride.tickets
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Buy RTD Denver MyRide products
Bypass the line and go mobile
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 17/11/2025
If you need a break from the horrors of the world and have too-many political podcasts in your rotation, check out Pop & Play--a podcast about play, pop culture, and education. In this episode we explored the play of the Swiftie -- why friendship bracelets, boas, and innuendo can be so fun!
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The Life of a Showgirl and Being a Swiftie | Pop and Play | Episode 4
Welcome to Season 6 and our first “play date”! Listen along with Haeny and Nathan and guest and fellow Swiftie Dr. Cassie Brownell, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto to Life of a Showgi...
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @handle.invalid · 17/11/2025
Alongside Dr. Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, I am co-editing a special issue of The Reading Teacher. Our topic, LGBTQ+ Literacies: Affirming Identities, Advancing Justice w/ Pre-K-6 Learners, is sure to be of interest to many & is SO NEEDED in these times! Manuscripts are due January 15, 2026! #literacies
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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Karen! I just shared the #playrevolution special issue with the shout-out to #literacies that came from you and your collaborators ❤️❤️❤️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 14/11/2025
And that's all for this first #popplaypod live chat! Thanks for joining team--super fun! And I you haven't yet listened, check out our playdate with @brownellcassie.bsky.social and let us know what you think.
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The Life of a Showgirl and Being a Swiftie | Pop and Play | Episode 4
Welcome to Season 6 and our first “play date”! Listen along with Haeny and Nathan and guest and fellow Swiftie Dr. Cassie Brownell, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto to Life of a Showgi...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 14/11/2025
Let’s start easy for this Pop & Play live chat... Q1: For this first one, introduce yourself. Also tell us your favorite song from Life of a Showgirl and give us your best hot take about the album? Don’t forget to add #popplaypod to your quote reply!
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 14/11/2025
We're doing it! Our first Pop & Play bsky live chat starts now! Follow along at #popplaypod or the feed below. Reply quote the questions and be sure to add #popplaypod to your response so others can easily find it. Here 😶 We 🫣 Goooo! 😱
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 14/11/2025
2 hours we’re doing this! Have dinner. Finish your homework. Listen to Life of a Show Girl 2.5 times! Be back here at 9:15 ET for some #popplaypod chattin’
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 30/10/2025
It’s spooky season! In today’s Pop & Play @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I talk about how the littles get enamored by scary culture even when they’re not entirely sure what it is.
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It’s Halloween! Is Scary Play Okay?
Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · 10/30/2025 · 21m
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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!
This flyer reads: "I'm going to the #literacies Homecoming. October 29, 2025. 5-6PM PT|7-8PM CT|8-9PM ET. Hosted by @writinglit.bsky.social"
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 02/10/2025
In Season 6 we’re introducing, “play dates!” where @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I share a play experience and invite you to play along. Our first play date is listening to the new Taylor Swift album with @brownellcassie.bsky.social! #LifeofaShowgirl drops tomorrow. Listen and join us for a play date!
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islsnews.bsky.social @islsnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 20/08/2025
Here’s two and a half minutes of a CBS segment showing google’s new AI multiple choice and fake podcast machine, 10s of me saying maybe we should instead encourage children to value their own voice and creativity, and 5s of me awkwardly writing on a whiteboard.
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Back-to-school: A parent's guide to AI
As kids head back to the classroom, "CBS Mornings" is showing what parents should know about artificial intelligence when it comes to your kids' education. CBS News' Jo Ling Kent gives guidance.
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islsnews.bsky.social @islsnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers is available on the ISLS website now! A dedicated annual meeting website is coming soon. www.isls.org/news/isls-20...
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ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers
June 15-19, 2026 | Irvine, California, USA Dear Learning Sciences Community, The 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting once again brings together the Learning Sciences community as a whole by combining two…
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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @handle.invalid · 12/07/2025
My latest piece, “From 'Todo sobre Mí' to 'All about We': Reading Children’s Visual Texts as Sights and Scenes of Critical Data Literacies,” just dropped! Check it, and a host of other awesome articles in the January 2025 issue of Language Arts! #literacies publicationsncte.org/content/jour...
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Rackham Graduate School @umichgradschool.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Kyle P. Smith is a Rackham doctoral candidate who explores the pedagogical possibilities of LGBTQ+ young adult literature to talk across differences in the classroom. 🏳️‍🌈 Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj #WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool
Portrait of Kyle P. Smith, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, smiling. A quote on the image reads, "I think that whenever you recognize that a controversial conversation doesn’t have to lead to the dismissal of human dignity or our humanity, a conversation can go much further."
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Kyle P. Smith @kpsinedu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thanks, @umichgradschool.bsky.social for showcasing me and my work! It was an honor to discuss how my own past, both as a teacher and a student, led to my passions as a researcher. Glad to call @umich.edu and the #MarsalFamilySchoolOfEducation my home!
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 25/06/2025
On this point, Haeny, @lmv.bsky.social, and I recorded a short Pop & Play episode recently on the GOP & DOGE cuts to science funding. We hope you'll share with friends, family, neighbors, or whoever might not understand why cutting scientific research matters!
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The Impacts of Cutting Federal Funding For Research (Pop Off) | Pop and Play | Episode
Nathan and Haeny are back for another Pop Off about recent cuts to funding for federal research. And they brought in a special guest: Vice Dean for Digital Innovation at Teachers College, Managing Dir...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 12/06/2025
Forgive one last bit of self promotion, but I've seen a lot of great work on play at #ISLS2025. If you haven't check out Pop & Play, take a listen. Might I recommend this episode where we interview Andrew Davenport, creator of the Teletubbies! bsky.app/profile/snow...
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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
With #ISLS2025 just around the corner I'm excited to announce that I am once again shitposting on Whova
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Before heading to Helsinki for #ISLS25, I’m spending a few days w/ global youth, politicians, activists, organizers, NGO leaders, lawyers, judges, & practitioners to discuss moving from talk to action in meaningfully implementing the UNCRC (Art. 12) in ways that don’t deprive children of liberty
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🧵STEM ED Research: I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF. The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Happiest of birthdays to the cutest Garbage fan I know, @tylerwmartin.bsky.social ! 🥳🥳🥳
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Two more days of fieldwork, but how many more days after I say goodbye until y’all think this stress-related eye twitch that started in early April might actually subside?? #TalesFromTheField
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 14/05/2025
Though it is sad that the 5th season of Pop & Play has come to a close, now is a great time to go back and listen to episodes you missed. Teletubbies, Sesame Street, Story Pirates, Henry Jenkins... we had some bangers! Check them out here: tc.edu/popandplay
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Pop and Play | Media | Digital Futures Institute (DFI) | Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College Digital Futures Institute (DFI) is an interdisciplinary hub for digital innovation, with a mission to advance more just social futures that is driven by research, pedagogy, and public engagement.
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Max Antony-Newman @max-antony-newman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Several conferences relocate north of the border as Canadians refuse to travel to the U.S. | CBC News
CBC News has identified several North American-based organizations that have relocated upcoming conferences, either partially or fully, from the U.S. to Canada. Conference organizers who spoke with CB...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 07/05/2025
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
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What’s Poppin’ at the End of the World: A Story Episode | Pop and Play | Episode 9
Haeny and Nathan aren’t just here to talk about children’s media - in this season finale, they’re here to MAKE children’s media! Welcome to a fictional tale of what happens after the end of the world,...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 06/05/2025
We had a GREAT season of Pop & Play talking to creators of youth media! To close out, we put our hand to creating a new children's drama. The result is "Stairway to Riverworld," a story about friends, John Cena and the Rock, the end of the world, and balloons. www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...
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Episode 9 | Season Five | Episodes | Media | Digital Futures Institute (DFI) | Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College Digital Futures Institute (DFI) is an interdisciplinary hub for digital innovation, with a mission to advance more just social futures that is driven by research, pedagogy, and public...
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#Literacies Pals & others! If you donate RIGHT NOW (or before you leave from work?!), you’ll likely get a call from a kid-DJ after 5:30 PM ET where they’ll personally thank you! So, donate $10 now, if you can! Only 57 more unique donors to go! #Please #Thanks www.givenola.org/fundraiser/D...
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GiveNOLA Day!
GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to ...
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Friends! It's #GiveNOLADay! I still need 75 pals to donate $10 to Be Loud Studios before tonight (Tues., 5/6 @ 11:59 PM ET!). Can you help me by clicking the link below & giving $10 now to help amplify children's voices w/ #BeLoudStudios??? #literacies #radio #civics #education
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GiveNOLA Day!
GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to ...
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Cassie Brownell (she/her) @brownellcassie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Friends! It's #GiveNOLADay! I still need 75 pals to donate $10 to Be Loud Studios before tonight (Tues., 5/6 @ 11:59 PM ET!). Can you help me by clicking the link below and giving $10 now to help amplify children's voices w/ #BeLoudStudios??? www.givenola.org/fundraiser/D...
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GiveNOLA Day!
GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to ...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 30/04/2025
What are kids looking for in media? Something short. Or maybe long. Or maybe something that is "realistic". Or maybe something that is funny... This week we're talking with the most important scholars of children's media, kids! www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 24/04/2025
If you're at #AERA2025 come hang out with the Pop & Play crew on Saturday 3:20 MST to talk about podcasts as public scholarship. We'll share a bit about our process and think with you about the podcast YOU want to make! h/t to Paul Granger who made this amazing cover for UF 54-40
Photoshopped book cover. Choose your own adventure 12. Now titled "Podcasts as public scholarship." Original book was UFO 54-40. A kid holding a statue stands next to a girl. There is a giant Easter Island head, an alien, some glowing discs, and a spaceship. It rocks.26 Apr 2025 03:20 PM - 04:50 PM (MST)

Podcasts as Public Scholarship: (Re)Imagining
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