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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

30 years ago, “Ed Tech turns Genghis Khan into a history teacher” was literally a Simpsons joke.

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm over calls to "normalize" behaviors. Who wants to be normal? AI's "not going anywhere?" Until you drop kick it outta your life with no regrets. Be weird. Hang out with librarians. #EduSky #AIRefusal www.librarian.net/notoai/

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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. ...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Extremely bummed that my teaching schedule conflicts with the zoom meetings, but super excited to have an excuse to re-read, slowly, Tristram Shandy in 2026!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is no gray area on Scrooge. He is the most explicitly caricatured figure in all of Dickens. A Sistine Chapel level finely filigreed precise depiction of every miserly trait boiled down to an aromatic reduction. A Platonic ideal of the form.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have read almost none of the modernists’ novels. A ton of their poetry and short stories. Very few of their novels!

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Y’all” is a great and useful word and everyone should be able to use it if they want.

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Over the last three days, I’ve read a lot of Dolly Parton stories and appreciations to fully understand her power and allure. If you can only read one, read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Conference Announcement: The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month! More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578

Cover for The Last Man at 200: Mary Shelley, Postapocalyptic Politics and the Environmental Humanities, edited by Eileen M. Hunt.

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Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As we start a new year, it's really important that we believe that students have something worth saying, that we make space for them to say it, and that we develop classroom communities where students can listen to one another and sound themselves out. This is a time for stances, not terminal irony.

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Tristram Shandy 2026 @tristramshandy2026.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Substack’s inaugural post is up! Come check out the page! It has all the information about meeting times and how to stay involved! All are welcome to join the reading group. Come hang out with us! tristramshandy2026.substack.com/p/the-tristr...

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The Tristrapaedia

Your Guide to Tristram Shandy 2026

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Toad put the thin button in his pocket. He was very angry. He jumped up and down and screamed, “The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!”

An anguished Toad jumps up and down, beating his brow in desperate fury while Frog looks on, dismayed.

From "A Lost Button"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

LowerEd won by eating HigherEd.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

what age would you say is appropriate to begin the ruthless criticism of all that exists? asking for a Sweet Baby who loves for her father to read her The Pout Pout Fish and other ideologically dodgy texts

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Reporting on what literacy means and why it feels so broken these days made me realize I had far more to say than could be captured in one feature. I’m so, so thrilled to say that now I get to write a whole book about it!

Publishers Marketplace
Deal Report
Category: Non-fiction: General/Other
THE READING MACHINE By Megan Greenwell
Imprint: Dey Street Books
August 10, 2026
Former Deadspin editor-in-chief and author of BAD COMPANY Megan Greenwell's THE READING MACHINE, a narrative investigation into how policy and profit reshaped the relationship between American children and books, changing what literacy is for and leaving millions of students behind in the process, to Libby Burton at Dey Street Books, at auction, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (NA).
Rights: kent@neonliterary.com

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sometimes people who tell a story about how they were pushed out of academia work very hard not to tell the story about how they were pulled out of academia by a publication that wanted them to write about being pushed out of academia

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Has anyone written (or is anyone writing) about Yesteryear & the gothic tradition? And/or about Yesteryear and Samuel Richardson?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Adaptation across media is brilliant for highlighting the kinds of choices made in and for the original media form. Film adaptations are wonderful for this and can make clear the shocking complexity of initiating human imagination via squiggly lines on paper.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Been thinking about this a lot: From 1995 to 2021, the ratio of students to *principals* in U.S. public schools decreased by 31.7%. The ratio fell even further for district-level admins: 34.8%. But for teachers, the decrease was only 11.5% & the ratio of students to librarians increased by 41.7%.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Expertise is good, actually.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Odysseus cries one million times in this book. Just a fountain of tears. All the men are constantly crying every single day. I suspect Christopher Nolan is not up to the task! But want man tears, Christopher!!!

Picture of Emily Wilson translation, with Odysseus crying “Long-suffering Odysseus replied,
"I am no god. Why would you think such things?
1 am your father, that same man you mourn.
It is because of me these brutal men are hurting you so badly."
Then he kissed
his son and cried, tears pouring down his cheeks; he had been holding back till then. The boy did not yet trust it really was his father, and said,

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Gonna tell my kid this is ChatGPT.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Not a lot of colors in that Sense and Sensibility trailer.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I once ordered a “deconstructed gin and tonic,” and got served, on a tray, a glass of ice, a shot of gin, an unopened bottle of tonic, and a lime wedge.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Toy Story 5 takes the 31-year-old franchise someplace new, as the gang confronts 21st-century technology in the form of an interactive tablet for kids. The result is a startlingly deep inquiry into the meaning & purpose of play--not to mention a hilarious, delightful movie. slate.com/culture/2026...

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Toy Story 5 Takes On a Dark Subject—and Comes Away the Best Pixar Sequel in Years

The clever, joke-dense new movie is a Pixar sequel that actually finds its purpose.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1714)

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Maria Town @mariatown.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Moving special education to the Department of Health and Human Services will not help students with disabilities. It will not help families. It will not help teachers. It will send us back, 50 years if not more. This will re-segregate students with disabilities. www.aapd.com/ed-transfer-...

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AAPD Outraged by Unlawful Transfer of Special Education, Civil Rights Offices From Department of Education to Other Agencies - AAPD

For Immediate Release: June 16, 2026 Contact: Jess Davidson, jdavidson@aapd.com; 202-465-5528 WASHINGTON, DC — The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) strongly condemns today’s ...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The point of having students do peer review is not to fix the essay, it’s to give the students a concrete experience of delivering their ideas to an audience and being in community caring about their compositional choices.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The word of the upcoming year in English teaching for me—thanks in large part to @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social —is “care.” Here’s another application.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Wait is Zotero doing LLM stuff now? 😬

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

One thing I don't think anyone in or out of education talks about enough is the effect of electronic gradebooks on grade inflation and how it turned schooling into a series of negotiated transactions btw teachers, administrators, parents, and students divorced from teaching and learning.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It would be hard to straight teach this post especially in a k-12 context, but this could be the germ of an interesting class exercise or writing assignment. Explore the etymology of an interesting term in these 3 sources.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Teaching question: cultivating a list of book-length, graphic memoirs. What’re your faves?

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Gotta feel like there’s a position to take, as educators, somewhere between *the canon is sacred* and *books are product*.

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Teaching question: cultivating a list of book-length, graphic memoirs. What’re your faves?

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 23/05/2026

www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/n... jesus THANK YOU

1. "They were blocking my path." Not an excuse!
2. "They were touching my car." Not an excuse!
3. "They disagreed with my politics." Not an excuse!
4. "They were rude to me." Not an excuse!
5. "They kept asking me hard questions and filming me with their phones, and I'm a powerful man who's used to being treated with deference." Buddy! You cannot ram your Cadillac into a pedestrian just because you're an easily flustered rich guy! This is so obvious!
At least, I used to think it was obvious. That was before the president of Cornell backed his car into a group of students and got away with it scot-free.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 09/04/2026

would anyone be interested in hearing how faculty & staff might not get merit raises this year (keeping in mind that we are below the national average for salaries) but yet CU still paid $2 million for access to a version of ChatGPT that is about as good as the free version? anyone? #ruminating

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible. Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:

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Introducing Middle School Students to "The Secret Ghost Workers of 'Artificial Intelligence'" — Civics of Technology

Upcoming Book Clubs: We’re reading The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms our Kids’ Learning - And How to Help Them Thrive Again by Jared Cooney Horvath. Join us on Wednesday, Ap...

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Free book idea for Mo Willems!

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The thing about imagining your own personal Star Trek is that every single 18th c novel works with the word “space” in front of the title.

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