Anna Smith

As smart devices multiply, so do fears over digital surveillance We are living in a time of extreme self surveillance. We carry with us devices that capture our every location, info about our health, and data about our private lives. This information can be saved, ...

“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”

All of this stuff is fundamentally about the erasure of consent. At the core of these products is the assertion that your very existence is a tacit agreement to feed the machine.

I've been using your report extensively w/teachers & admin both in courses & in our upcoming study on teachers' critical walkthroughs of AI products they are being required or encouraged to use. It has shifted convos from "use" to systems & histories in critical ways. So, it's been impactful for us!

I wonder this every single time. Can we just go back to paper programs that we keep or recycle after the conference?

An as yet underreported story is how this society-wide experiment is working out at schools and universities. Schools across the country have integrated these systems, and it’s hard to believe similar stories aren’t playing out at these institutions—we just haven’t heard about it yet.

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

💻 These media were made in collaboration with authors of Volume 74 and the @edunowlab.bsky.social with Dr. @anna-phd.bsky.social , Gokul Dhamodaran, and Viraj V. Patel.

🔔Stay tuned! Over the next few months, we will announce articles in Volume 74 alongside companion public media pieces created for youth, parents, educators, and policymakers.

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✨ The co-editors of @lrtmp.bsky.social and the @edunowlab.bsky.social are pleased to announce the launch of our Public Scholarship Initiative of articles in Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice, Volume 74.

Yes, friends, I did just light up the feed with posts from the #literacies chat. I hope it helped to drown out the other noise tonight. You can catch up on the chat like I did on the #literacies feed! Honestly, it was a nice timeline cleanse.

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A1: Over the last few years, I have been working to intentionally reframe "victory" as focusing on being present in the moment as opposed to being fully focused on just trying to 'achieve' the next new thing, step, etc. #literacies

Spoiler alert for Dr. Berry’s upcoming book, but brilliant and enticing point to ponder. We’re excited to learn more! #literacies #victory

I think one of the key elements here is the possibilities for language reinvention that happen in these "zero gravity" spaces! Gamers as second-language users mold the language in increasingly creative ways, for example. #literacies

Q4: Working with @amystorn.bsky.social and Kathy Walsh to design the "Open World Writing" framework has shaped how I approach writing in all aspects of my life, not just academic writing. Heuristics/thinking tools matter. www.openworldwriting.com #literacies.

A5: As a gamer infinitely engrossed in any and all character creation processes, I would be very interested in the #literacies and language practices to be explored specific to how students and gamers intentionally make and remake themselves at this preliminary stage 👀

A5 (pt 2): Also. Something that just struck me. As someone still playing #PokemonGo like it’s 2016, I am wondering about the affects of gaming on the go, especially on mobile phones. What #literacies are practiced when gaming is mediated between the digital and physical world?

Young people are the only reason I have ever set up a new account on any social media platform or played a new game! They are fantastic leads to follow! #literacies

We got @ryanschey.bsky.social on social media, y’all! Give him a follow and join us for our March #literacies chat on 3/31. Sure to be a good one!

From Story to System: Teaching Literacy Across Contexts ▪ ▪ ▪ From Story to System: Teaching Literacy Across Contexts ▪ ▪ ▪ How does multimodal literacy develop in early childhood classrooms compared to multilingual and adolescent settings? In this…

Be sure to check out our latest Inquiring Minds podcast from From Story to System: Teaching Literacy Across Contexts at www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6K... #literacies

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Exactly this

I wondered the same thing.

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

Anker's Soundcore Work AI voice recorder offers transcription in an ultra-compact form factor Anker's Soundcore just revealed the Work voice recorder. It's tiny and uses AI to transcribe conversations.

Every new tech product is a wiretap that may also tell you to self harm. The only distinction is form factor.

Announcing our February #literacies chat, “"Get Over Here!": Gaming, Literacy, and the Victories in Between ,” hosted by @elpatronhimself.bsky.social on 2/24! We can’t wait to see you there!

Announcing our February #literacies chat, “"Get Over Here!": Gaming, Literacy, and the Victories in Between ,” hosted by @elpatronhimself.bsky.social on 2/24! We can’t wait to see you there!

The deadline for applications has been extended to 2/23.

You can read more about this position, including details about how to apply, at kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.2/logging...

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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Do you add one each week? If so, I am liking the sound of this.

For the feeling you describe, spring. For the beauty, fall.