iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Really excited for this talk tomorrow! Register at the link below

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 02/10/2026

Boulder Faculty Assembly passed a resolution calling for no extension of the OpenAI contract. Vote was 39-8-1 after suspending the bylaws. Everyone at CU Student Government public comment has been fired up about their corresponding resolution, talking about trust and societal impact. So energizing.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

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Letter to Charles Lyell
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i have a theory that qualitative educational researchers LOVE to use overly precise statistics in reporting the demographics of their research sites because it feels more science-y. HOWEVER ... it also enables reverse look ups of research sites and should be avoided.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL'S BOOT CAMP Just over a week ago, 73 Alpha School high school students were left almost entirely unsupervised for three days in the Texas wilderness. It was a Fyre Festival-like disaster. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/fifth-repo...

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FIFTH REPORT: CHILDREN HARMED AT ALPHA SCHOOL’S BOOT CAMP

Student hospitalized during Survival Challenge on wilderness ranch; police investigation is ongoing; other concerning incidents re student safety and privacy; one guide fired; also Little B. Diddies

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Trenton @gossmata58.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how many retired teachers would sign up for this on a month to month or semester basis? People need money and retirees already know the ropes it would be such a win win

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Any time I am granted the magic genie wishing power for schools, I ask for something that is never on a survey like the one we received: ✨ Please hire permanent floating subs who can cover teachers' classes so they can attend IEP meetings, attend PD, visit colleagues' classrooms, etc. ✨

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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't disagree. But, as I wrote back to these reporters, I am most optimistic about projects that respond to the expressed concerns of students and teachers. These are the people who spend 180 days inside schools each year, and they're the key actors in the process of teaching and learning. 1/n

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

17 states looked at quadrant 4 and said: i'll take that one. by 26-27, half of US K12 schoolkids will be eligible in a universal voucher state

NY times cost/effectiveness plot of ed reforms

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cory Doctorow with another illuminating thread on AI hype

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

would 100% enroll in this course or read this book ⬇️

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

take maya angelou's name and likeness out of your damned mouth, learnwith.ai! maya angelou would NEVER!!!

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's very interesting that while Western countries chase the kinds of PISA scores produced by the highest performing countries, those countries are taking action to *reduce* the harmful effects and stresses of such a high stakes education system...

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the postwar university for all its problems worked according to a pretty complex balance of cultural and economic capital with other kinds thrown in, but it looks like we can simplify our Bourdieu for the phase of neoliberal higher ed we’re in now, where the only thing that matters, ever, is money

Diagram of Bourdieu’s four fold grid of forms of capital — Economic, Cultural, Social, and Symbolic, showing all of them crossed out except for Economic, which is now the only form recognized by the neoliberal university

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it.

Screenshot of article which reads: At the same time, new job-focused majors may not be sustainable — and can even backfire. Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, pointed to the rise in computer-science degrees in the 2010s. At the time, they seemed like the best way to secure a high-paying salary after graduation, she said. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, computer-science jobs are increasingly hard to find, and enrollment in such programs is falling significantly.
“When you tie the viability, the financial viability in particular, of an institution really tightly to jobs creation on that scale,” especially as a four-year institution, she said, “you have to be really careful, because you can find that in 10 years that program that you poured all your money into — worthless.”

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*tried* to give him a fair shake and got through 15min. Didn't come close to reaching that cited part. I couldn't get passed...what do you have to say to people who are afraid of losing their job? There will be new industries for you to serve the haves

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

/screaming in teacher/

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Dr. Halcyon Foster @infinigon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As I high school math teacher, I see the brain rot already happening. Also the loss of fine motor skills and legible writing. It is stunning and alarming. We all need to fight the fight now.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As long as we let these jokers "lead," we are absolutely cooked.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came across this beautiful (and timely) Maxine Greene quote in Kathy Schultz and Rachel Throop's new book, PRACTICE: KEY WORDS IN TEACHER EDUCATION. "What is meant by teaching as possibility in dark and constraining times?..." Teaching is, in the end, a profession of hope. #EduSky

What is meant by teaching as possibility in dark and constraining times? It is a matter of awakening and empowering today's young people to name, to reflect, to imagine, and to act with more and more concrete responsibility in an increasingly multifarious world. At once, it is a matter of enabling them to remain in touch with dread and desire, with the smell of lilacs and the taste of a peach. The light may be uncertain and flickering; but teachers in their lives and works have the remarkable capacity to make it shine in all sorts of corners and, perhaps, to move newcomers to join with others and transform."

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"But our experience at P.S. 307 exposed the fallacy that caring families are more important than competent teachers. Here we were, this upper-middle-class, educated, highly involved family with a house brimming with books..."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So excited to read this book! The way the U.S. allocates access to public education has always been unequal, and "choice" systems are challenging for families to decode as they try to navigate these inequities. Thanks for all your work in writing this book @jenjennings.bsky.social! #EduSky

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Did you all read the part that just 3 of these companies need to raise the equivalent of 10% of the world's GDP in capital over the next 5 years?

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's hard to describe the grief i feel at the NSF's new way of doing business. aside from my individual lab and research program, the devastation to science is so profound and will be felt for generations as we lose opportunities to advance our knowledge and train new scholars.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is an accelerated version of what politicians have been doing to public schools for decades now: disinvest, create jacked metrics, declare the system broken to make way for education as an individual –– not a common –– good. an educated populace is a threat to authoritarianism.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What's happening with Alpha School is a massive scandal. It is the Theranos of education. What they are doing to children, denying the help of adults so they can beta test software, is *immoral*. I have worked in education for 20 years, this is the worst actor I've ever come across.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

thank you john! i am delighted to be in this esteemed company 📚💕

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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Overall, we think these results point to the continued need for cell phone restrictions and highlight that implementation will continue to be a challenge for schools and educators. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-y...

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A year later, what teens tell us about school cellphone bans | Brookings

Dan Silver, Amie Rapaport, and Morgan Polikoff track how teen cellphone use shifted over a year under school phone bans.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The United States now has the largest gap in reading performance between its lowest and highest-achieving students of any of the dozens of countries that participated in PISA.”

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Reading Ability Craters on PISA International Exam, Both in the United States and Abroad

The U.S. outperformed most countries in reading and science, but the results show a global phenomenon of poorer readers.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

After reading @benjaminjriley.bsky.social's excellent piece on Alpha School, consider that public taxpayer dollars are supporting these schools in some voucher/ESA states.

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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day from Nancy and Caroline Cash.

Nancy says 8 hours for work, rest and what we will. Happy Labor Day!

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BradPatrick @bradpatrick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you are against libraries, you are wrong. How you are wrong may or may not require digging, but you are wrong.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friends, family, and future colleagues used to hold "schoolmarm showers" for first-year teachers. Sometimes, it was a way for a retiring teacher to pass along materials she'd acclimated in her career.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think a lot about how many states keep loosening oversight of homeschooling while other people get this kind of punishment for their kids just being outside

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Proud mentor moment! My doc student Elizabeth Metts and collaborator Ben Rydal Shapiro just published a paper that uses novel visualization methods to show the complex embodied work teachers do to listen during instruction. #iteachmath #academicsky link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

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Making listening visible: listening as an embodied dimension of mathematics teacher noticing

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Principal Project @principalproject.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"I think there's an assumption that all technology is good. I wanted to evaluate whether that was true. I took everything I was using technology for and did it with paper and pencil instead, and the results were eye-opening." -Educator Dylan Kane Read the interview: www.edutopia.org/article/dyla...

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Dylan Kane Went Tech-Free for a Year—Here’s What He Learned

After replacing Chromebook activities with paper and pencils, the middle school math teacher thoughtfully considers the costs and benefits.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the really cool part of tech companies using AI help tools is that we know we are basically on our own, so we can spend 30 minutes trying to solve a tech problem on our own before we insist on getting a human, who then proceeds to walk us through the FAQs like we didn't just spend 30 min on that. /s

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"My grandmother was not in the textbook" #poetry "This poem reflects on the quiet forms of knowledge that often remain absent from formal schooling... anthrosource-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/share/EJTJAK...

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Shibboleth Authentication Request

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In our Seattle neighborhood, we liked to go to our neighborhood video store on the weekend with our small kids. There were bags of (kind of stale) popcorn and (kind of grubby) kid sized furniture, and the kids would look around, then sit and munch while we picked out flicks.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My 18yo camp counselor kid heard from her campers that their school buses at home had cameras/mics trained on them to listen for the word “gun.” “Surveillance is not the same as safety, and a school where every student feels watched is not necessarily a school where every student feels safe.”

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