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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional @dontworryteach.bsky.social @remikalir.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @sarahlw.bsky.social

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Leaving on a jet…bus? At least there will be good in-flight snacks!

A children’s play area styled as a large yellow VW Bus with airplane wings and the word Tillamook on the side. On top are Tillamook products like ice cream and cheese.

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Gonna miss that satisfying feeling you get when you check in to a Southwest flight exactly 24 hours in advance and see that glorious A group appear next to your name.

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

When you turn to your latest read, Murderland - a non-fiction tale of the rise of serial killers in Pacific Northwest in the 1960s - to avoid doomscrolling, you know things are grim. (It is well-written and fascinating, to be fair.)

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/states-... From the Learning Policy Institute, showing the impact of the administration's reckless decision to withhold billions of critical education dollars. Vermont and DC are set to see over 20% of their federal school funding yanked. Over 10% in every state.

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States Face Uncertainty as an Estimated $6.2 Billion in K–12 Funding Remains Unreleased: Here’s the Fiscal Impact by State

States face uncertainty as $4.8 billion in K–12 federal funding remains unreleased. If the U.S. Department of Education doesn’t distribute these funds by July 1, state educational agencies will need p...

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Terrible trash news day at the end of a hard week in a string of terrible trash news…days, weeks - months - losing count. Took a few minutes to pause, breathe, and move my body a little. Small wins.

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Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Here's the joint statement re: Mahmoud v Taylor from the authors and illustrators of the LGBTQ+ picture books involved. I appreciate you reading and sharing this. It was the decision we expected, but are devastated to read nonetheless. pen.org/press-releas...

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Authors and Illustrators of Books in Mahmoud v. Taylor Case Respond to Supreme Court Ruling - PEN America

As the authors and illustrators of the books named in Mahmoud v. Taylor, we believe the Supreme Court’s ruling today threatens students’ access to diverse books and undermines teachers’ efforts to cre...

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Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Now’s our chance to let them know how we feel (right to their faces!) Go to regulations.gov Search ED-2025-OS-0020 Click “Comment” and make your voice heard!

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

One good thing: these cheerful tulips from a local farm!

Two vases full of pink, yellow, and red tulips

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Oh hey! The last time I was on here was almost exactly a year ago. Welcome back, I guess? Good to see you again!

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

this Valentine's Day, revisit DLINQ's first Demystifying AI activity to check out the poems (and reflections) that folks wrote using various AI tools. Learn more about prompt engineering & contribute your own poem and reflection! dlinq.middcreate.net/detox-2024/a...

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

I had a wonderful experience collaborating w/ DJN Instructional Design Working Group colleagues on this new article for The Journal of Applied Instructional Design. It was a pleasure & a privilege to have the time & space for this intentional thinking & reflection. edtechbooks.org/jaid_13_1/co...

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Co-Designing an Action-Oriented Instructional Design Community: Applying the Design Justice Network ...

In this paper, we share our process and learnings from growing the Instructional Design Working Group of the Design Justice Network, a group of instructional design professionals interested in underst...

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

A wonderful reflection on the first DLINQ Digital Detox activity activity centered around using generative AI to write a poem. Anne-Marie's characterization of ChatGPT's writing style made me giggle - "Whilst holding on to the rhyming couplets for grim death"

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

One of my fav things about January is the start of winter term at Midd. This year I'm co-teaching w/ @amycollier.bsky.social a class called Questioning Technology, where we critically approach the ways in which we shape, & are shaped, by digital technologies. So timely! Will share key texts below.

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

If you're looking for a low-stakes & hands-on way to engage with learning about generative AI, consider signing up for DLINQ's Digital Detox! The Detox will go live on Jan. 3, with new activities every week through mid-February. Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/19618...

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Sign up now for the 2024 DLINQ digital detox on gen AI! Instead of writing articles like in past years, we'll be guiding you through activities that help you explore & understand the tools. Try the activities, (critically) reflect on them, & share what you learned. signup.e2ma.net/signup/19618...

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Cognitive load refers to how much working memory or short-term memory someone is using at a time. Minimizing the cognitive load it takes to use your site makes it more accessible for people with cognitive disabilities. Limit what you're asking users to remember to use your site.

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

my reward for getting up very very early for a flight was to stand next to Donna from West Wing while waiting for our orders from H&H Bagel at JFK

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

losing track lately of how many times I've said "well ideally we'd xyz... but in reality, it's abc..."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2023

Okay this is a) a hot nonsense nightmare of truly egregious proportions and b) exactly the kind of shit we warned you amazon and other were going to start doing, as soon as they had voice modeling tech. "Amazon will use real user conversations to train Alexa's AI model"

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Amazon will use real user conversations to train Alexa's AI model

The disclosure that Amazon would train its AI from real user conversations came in a Bloomberg TV interview.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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BlueSky Invites for the Chronic Illness Community

Please fill out this form if you're the chronic illness community and you'd like to either (1) donate invite codes or (2) request an invite.

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Interested in finding out more about the Instructional Design Working Group of the Design Justice Network? Join us this Friday, Sept. 29 at 10 am ET for our monthly open meeting! Check out the planned agenda, & register for Zoom link: docs.google.com/document/d/1... We hope to see you there!

A white circle on a bright green background. Energetic pink and purple arrows surround the circle. The text in the circle reads, Instructional designer? student? teacher? learning/ux design? Join our working group meeting this Friday, Sept. 29 at 10 am ET.

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Terry Greene HE/HIM @greeneterry.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

A new episode of Gettin' Air: The Open Pedagogy Podcast is out now! @charleswlogan.bsky.social joins the show to chat about resistance and refusal of educational technologies, Luddite pedagogies, and how Audrey Watters is the GOAT. www.spreaker.com/user/voicedr...

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Charles Logan

Gettin' Air with Charles Logan. A Learning Sciences PhD student at Northwestern University, Charles joins the show to chat about resistance and refusal of educational technologies, Luddite pedagogies,

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Help me share? TY! Next up in the Education Now Lab speaker series: Can Cyborgs Teach Us: Speculative Pedagogies & the Sociopolitical Imagination w/ Dr. Arturo Cortez & Dr. José R. Lizzárraga on 10/4 at 7:30pm CT. Register to imagine possible futures through video game-play! tinyurl.com/EduNowLab

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

required workplace injury training is defining slips for me: a loss of friction between your foot and the floor. thanks, required workplace injury training. the more you know, etc.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Today, you can order four free COVID tests. Go here: www.covid.gov/tests Pass it on.

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

So here’s a funny story. My student loans were forgiven thanks to the limited PSLF waiver (life changing!). I had paid more than the qualifying number of payments, so they gave me money back (also amazing!). Here’s the funny part: I was sent two checks for an identical amount of money... 1/x

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Came across Equity-Oriented Learning Design today, still thinking about it. The range of orientations to the practice of learning design resonated w/ me b/c they encapsulate the pxs & the conditions of doing equity-oriented LD today - the tensions & the hopes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Equity-Oriented Learning Design: An Entangled Future - Postdigital Science and Education

There is growing interest in the literature towards a more distributed, collaborative view of learning design that focuses on relationships and connection. In this paper, we propose a vision of learni...

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

so one thing I wonder about being here (instead of there), is whether this space will actually be more useful, since starting from scratch in a way = cutting out some of the noise that had crept into my feed in the other place. not all of it bad noise (tho some), but 1/2

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Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I feel like this is a real "hello world" moment... hello, blue sky!

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