iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"the adaptability of literacy leaves it vulnerable to cooptation: to construct literacy pedagogy in relation to AI platforms...necessarily concedes the indeterminacy of literacy education's speculative project to those driving platforms' technical and political-economic dimensions" - Nichols et al:

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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

This conceptual article examines the role of speculation in driving responses to generative AI platforms in literacy education and the implications for research, pedagogy, and practice. Our focus on ...

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Slightly nervous for any university administrator to read it, but thanks to the work of scholars such as @cjdenial.bsky.social & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social our first-year humanities program has a pedagogical statement on gen AI, with reading list! core.humanities.uci.edu/index.php/ge...

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Our Pedagogical Approaches to Generative AI in Humanities Core

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

13 years ago (!) I wrote about what the history of literacy can tell us about the colonial logic behind tech moguls' eagerness to "close the digital divide." The AI divide is no different. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Spreading Literacy, Spreading Internet

Literacy has always been about more than just the ability to read.

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Spreading Literacy, Spreading Internet

Literacy has always been about more than just the ability to read.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This much needed, nuanced piece finally pushed me to sit down & get all my thoughts out about the "literacy crisis." It's my best attempt to combat the moral panic clickbait that circulates in The Discourse™️ and offer a fuller account of #literacies in the plural. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Three Theses On the Literacy Crisis

Why The Atlantic and the Moral Panic Machine Are Misdiagnosing the "End of Reading"

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WIRED sent me to Mississippi to report a different kind of feature about reading. Why are third-graders there acing standardized tests but older students are still struggling with comprehension? What does measuring "literacy" even mean?

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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read

Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.

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Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...

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@OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social @dankrutka.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🤖NEW PUB🤖 Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators by a lot of our @civicsoftech.bsky.social team: @jbpleasa.bsky.social @mariekheath.bsky.social @charleswlogan.bsky.social Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1743... Just DM if you can't access it. /1

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 05/06/2026

Well hey, this looks RAD

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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

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The Specter of High School English – Post45 Post45

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Kyle P. Smith @kpsinedu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’m so excited to read this!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It is a sign of how deeply I was underwater at the end of two weeks without childcare with an infant and a toddler that I didn't even see this cluster came out until now. THIS CLUSTER IS SO IMPORTANT! There is an emerging dialogue between high school and college English, long overdue

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45! Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars! post45.org/2026/06/inst...

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The Institution(s) of High School English – Post45

When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thrilled to share a new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on "The Specter of High School English" that I co-edited with Robert LeBlanc. It's an effort to foster richer dialogue between secondary and university English—and it was a joy to work with such brilliant contributors. post45.org/sections/con...

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The Specter of High School English – Post45 Post45

Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols

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The Specter of High School English – Post45 Post45

Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New article — the first from an ongoing project that explores how anchoring edtech development in teachers' professional knowledge might support the design of technologies that resist the extractive and deskilling tendencies of platformization in education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization

Early accounts of educational platforms celebrated their potential to revolutionize professional learning through ‘participatory culture,’ enabling teachers to share resources, gain knowledge from ...

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Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"But as Charles Logan, T. Philip Nichols, and Antero Garcia recently argued in Kappan, 'the future [educational technology vendors] selling has not arrived — and perhaps it never will. But de-skilling, surveillance, and extraction — all of that is happening now, in our classrooms, today.'"

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The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing mov...

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This piece is amazing for how poorly it informs the public. I get that it's an excerpt from a book whose text was fixed in place months ago, but Khan himself has essentially admitted Khanmigo is a dud. The plucky tale of people who really care working with AI is B.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...

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OpenAI and Khan Academy Made a Chatbot. What Can We Learn?

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Anthropic is running a continuous research project inside real classrooms at scale and Google DeepMind is doing an RCT of an AI chatbot with 1500 UK schoolkids. Big tech is now all about evidencing AI effects through classroom experiments. The big question is... newsletters.qs.com/6a04954386e7...

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🔬 Evidence, education, and EdTech: a new era of outcomes accountability.

Inside the studies, labs, and partnerships shifting how leading institutions compete. Read the EdTech Ecosystem Hubs Report. Innovation events to note in 2026.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The end of ChatGPT will not be the end of the epistemic warfare it launched, which I see as an extension of the project of deliteracy which began in the ‘70s & which we will have to reckon with no matter how this bubble bursts.

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After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)

Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E9 · 1h 23m

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I talked to Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth for a story about screen-time limits in schools. Short version: we need to think about the social and academic trade-offs when we allow private edtech to become primary infrastructures for classroom teaching and learning. www.fox4news.com/news/richard....

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Richardson ISD considers limiting screen time in classroom

As the conversation around screen time in the classroom gets louder across the country, Richardson ISD is looking at its own use of technology.

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Since moving off Canvas last year, I've experimented with self-hosted websites, shared folders, and hard copies (w/ weekly emails to contextualize readings and offer supplemental resources). Each had different outcomes; all were infinitely better than Canvas. Leave and don't look back.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Gotta say, having been in the initial convening on which this framework was to be based, these recs feel way out of step with the serious concerns folks were voicing about AI's commercial capture of education, teacher deskilling, short-circuiting of reading/writing processes, environmental costs.

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Talked to NPR for this story about the Canvas hacks. Short version: it’d be nice if schools were as concerned about protecting student data when there isn’t a ransom note involved. www.npr.org/2026/05/09/n...

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What to know about the Canvas hack of student data

Millions of students in universities and K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas, a classroom management tool used all over the country.

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Allie Thrall @alliethrall.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

For teachers who want to end the year with a critical tech unit, check out my More Work for Mother unit guide! Happy Mother’s Day 😊

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Check out board member, @philnichols.bsky.social, saying stuff on NPR.

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What to know about the Canvas hack of student data

Millions of students in universities and K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas, a classroom management tool used all over the country.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Canvas breakdown this week has once more shown how dependent universities are on "Big Edtech" firms. Lots to unpack on edtech platforms, data, and infrastructures from this case alone so this international multi-authored piece may help explain a few things... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns

Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Maybe allowing third-party platforms to become load bearing infrastructure for K-16 education was a bad idea? (See @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social and I on “platform governance“ in education: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...)

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I talked to NPR for this story about the recent screen-time bans/limits in schools, and the policy brief I co-authored last fall that’s been cited in several of the legal filings. The full brief is here: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

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Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

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AI and the amplification of academic content assetization

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old) We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Who Gets a Guggenheim? This Professor Has An Answer

Education and public policy professor Dominique Baker looked at 30,000 Guggenheim recipients to determine how influential institutional affiliation is in determining who gets one of the prestigious fe...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

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