Aaron A. Aguilar
@aaronadanaguilar.bsky.social
Former Tx teacher, current PhD student in Ed Policy Studies at UW-Madison || studying datafication & EdTech platforms in K12 || He/Him || IG @agweelar
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What's up everybody! Texas boy in Madison, WI getting my PhD in Ed Policy. Let's be friends!
Ask me about datafication and tech platforms in education if you want to get me yapping 😊
Ask me about datafication and tech platforms in education if you want to get me yapping 😊
We need a total shut down of the use of parentheses in academia until we can figure out what’s going on.
Because why did I just read the phrase “being explicit about (y)our decisions…”
Because why did I just read the phrase “being explicit about (y)our decisions…”
May 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We need a total shut down of the use of parentheses in academia until we can figure out what’s going on.
Because why did I just read the phrase “being explicit about (y)our decisions…”
Because why did I just read the phrase “being explicit about (y)our decisions…”
Chicago Style is so crazy because what do you mean this is my first page???
May 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Chicago Style is so crazy because what do you mean this is my first page???
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Congrats to @aaronadanaguilar.bsky.social Aaron Aguilar, doc student in Education Policy Studies @uwmadison.bsky.social , for this award!
Congratulations to Aaron Adan Aguilar, recipient of the 2025 Media, Culture & Learning SIG Best Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for manuscript, ““Easier or better?”: Examining educator sense-making of Ed-Tech Platforms in datafied schools.” #AERA2025 #AERA25 #literacies
April 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Congrats to @aaronadanaguilar.bsky.social Aaron Aguilar, doc student in Education Policy Studies @uwmadison.bsky.social , for this award!
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Congratulations to Aaron Adan Aguilar, recipient of the 2025 Media, Culture & Learning SIG Best Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for manuscript, ““Easier or better?”: Examining educator sense-making of Ed-Tech Platforms in datafied schools.” #AERA2025 #AERA25 #literacies
April 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Congratulations to Aaron Adan Aguilar, recipient of the 2025 Media, Culture & Learning SIG Best Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for manuscript, ““Easier or better?”: Examining educator sense-making of Ed-Tech Platforms in datafied schools.” #AERA2025 #AERA25 #literacies
@mclsig.bsky.social this is so cool, thank you!! #AERA2025
April 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
@mclsig.bsky.social this is so cool, thank you!! #AERA2025
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Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."
Earlier that day:
Earlier that day:
January 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."
Earlier that day:
Earlier that day:
“education journalists are mistakenly compelled to focus on the “exceptional” districts (outliers) while ignoring …what can and should be addressed in terms of educational reform—the negative impact of poverty on educational attainment.“
The Outlier Story: How Education Journalism (Almost) Always Gets It Wrong radicalscholarship.com/2025/01/02/t...
The Outlier Story: How Education Journalism (Almost) Always Gets It Wrong
[Header Photo by Will Myers on Unsplash] The first two decades of my career as a literacy educator were spent as a high school English teacher in rural Upstate South Carolina, the high school I had…
radicalscholarship.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“education journalists are mistakenly compelled to focus on the “exceptional” districts (outliers) while ignoring …what can and should be addressed in terms of educational reform—the negative impact of poverty on educational attainment.“
This film is a masterpiece
since it is Muppet Christmas Carol time, let us revisit this wonderful interview with Michael Caine, who loves it as much as the rest of us
“People say to me, Have you ever sung? I say, Yes, I sang in a movie. They say, Who with? I say, Kermit the Frog.”
“People say to me, Have you ever sung? I say, Yes, I sang in a movie. They say, Who with? I say, Kermit the Frog.”
Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do
God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.
www.gq.com
December 25, 2024 at 6:15 PM
This film is a masterpiece
Twitter is a wasteland
December 23, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Twitter is a wasteland
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT HE WROTE ABOUT IT ON TWITTER
A judge on Sunday ordered a man suspected of killing five people by driving a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany to remain in detention as the authorities worked to understand the motives behind an attack that has stunned the country.
Germany Searches for Motives in Christmas Market Attack
The authorities said they were struggling to understand the motives for the attack with a car in the eastern city of Magdeburg, in which a 9-year-old boy was among the five victims.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 3:12 PM
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT HE WROTE ABOUT IT ON TWITTER
A herald of ill omen
A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...
December 22, 2024 at 3:10 PM
A herald of ill omen
Don’t forget that if your mom asks if you like something while you’re in her house, she means, “do you want it?”
December 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Don’t forget that if your mom asks if you like something while you’re in her house, she means, “do you want it?”
Watched SVU on the plane ride home.. it’s comforting to know they’re still going crazy over there
December 20, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Watched SVU on the plane ride home.. it’s comforting to know they’re still going crazy over there
💔💔💔
A loving, devoted teacher and a student brimming with artistic ambition are Abundant Life shooting victims
By Karina Tsui, Whitney Wild, Amanda Jackson, Jillian Sykes, Dalia Faheid and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN
(CNN) — Rubi Patricia Vergara was an “avid reader” and full of artistic promise at age 14, accor...
madison365.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:01 PM
💔💔💔
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Reflecting on my 2024 and the conversations I’ve had about what the Luddites offer us in the struggle against “obnoxious machines,” and this chat with @covingtonedu.bsky.social on the @humrespro.bsky.social podcast was a highlight:
Toward a Luddite Pedagogy in the
What should be the relationship of education, automation & artificial intelligence? Should there be one at all? An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.
www.humanrestorationproject.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Reflecting on my 2024 and the conversations I’ve had about what the Luddites offer us in the struggle against “obnoxious machines,” and this chat with @covingtonedu.bsky.social on the @humrespro.bsky.social podcast was a highlight:
SAY IT AGAIN
December 19, 2024 at 1:05 AM
SAY IT AGAIN
Chili tastes good with beans in it when don’t have an annoying Texan in your ear telling you it doesn’t
December 18, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Chili tastes good with beans in it when don’t have an annoying Texan in your ear telling you it doesn’t
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Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
So tired of god giving me his toughest battles (writing the last 300 words of a paper)
December 17, 2024 at 9:13 PM
So tired of god giving me his toughest battles (writing the last 300 words of a paper)
Reorganizing a paper is never as simple as I think it will be. Every transition is load-bearing
December 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Reorganizing a paper is never as simple as I think it will be. Every transition is load-bearing