iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

increasingly I think it's not useful to tell students to prove their points with quotes, as if quotation is self-evident instead, they have to shift to prove the quotes with their points

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peej @peej.hahabean.maison · 04/10/2026

Modern day gospel imo

people b saying things so definitively. like man i
think it depends

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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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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But also some of the best songs about being a rich guy are on Graceland

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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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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks a lot: now I’m sad this doesn’t exist.

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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

Maybe my favorite Charlotte Brontë.

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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 · 30/08/2026

Broadview published one in 2018!

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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...

tristramshandy2026.substack.com

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

Basically, the books are interested in completely different things. In terms of plot, Huck will catch you up with the major events of Tom Sawyer (and then undo basically all of the consequences of that narrative) in the opening pages of the book.

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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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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There’s a scene in Man of Steel, on which Nolan has a writing credit, that I always thought was inspired by the squirrel’s heart beat passage. So I guess there’s a chance!

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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 · 10/07/2026

FWIW, I did this double read earlier this year and got a lot out of it!

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Ooh can I get added? I will catch up when I track down a copy!

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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 · 29/06/2026

My students always clock the tears. One of my favorite “unplanned” classes is when one of them inevitably brings it up!

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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 · 25/06/2026

Jaws is in the ballpark, which sure does tell you something

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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...

slate.com

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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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s “lord only knows” for me!

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Every time I see a demo of an ai conversation with a student, my thought is, “shouldn’t we be teaching students to be that audience?!”

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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 · 11/06/2026

This list is worse than the initial one, but they are right that Wuthering Heights is the best novel by a Brontë!

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Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Want a micro fiction compilation with one story per name

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

Wait is Zotero doing LLM stuff now? 😬

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