Veena Vasudevan
@veenav.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Learning
Founder of Imagination PLAYce | Program Coordinator for our MEd in C&I, STEAM and Critical Technology in Digital Media for Learning certificate programs | Pitt School of Education
Founder of Imagination PLAYce | Program Coordinator for our MEd in C&I, STEAM and Critical Technology in Digital Media for Learning certificate programs | Pitt School of Education
Thrilled to share new article in Critical Social Educator - a true labor of love because it features my sons! I examine the critical literacies young children enact through play within their digitally mediated worlds through everyday moments. Please read and share. (Open access).
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www.tcsejournal.com - Featherwands Can Freeze You
Featherwands Can Freeze You: How Young Children Compose Ephemeral Texts Through Digitally Mediated Play
Veena Vasudevan, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Abstract: In this auto-ethnograp...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Thrilled to share new article in Critical Social Educator - a true labor of love because it features my sons! I examine the critical literacies young children enact through play within their digitally mediated worlds through everyday moments. Please read and share. (Open access).
lnkd.in/eTenwy9M
lnkd.in/eTenwy9M
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The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
September 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
Our second substack blog is live! I look at children's biographies as windows into others' worlds, & the way human stories inspired my sons and I, and hopefully you too! Shout out to @carnegielibrary.bsky.social for their collection of biographies. imaginationplayce.substack.com/p/picture-bo...
Picture Book biographies: windows into others' worlds
Human stories matter
imaginationplayce.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Our second substack blog is live! I look at children's biographies as windows into others' worlds, & the way human stories inspired my sons and I, and hopefully you too! Shout out to @carnegielibrary.bsky.social for their collection of biographies. imaginationplayce.substack.com/p/picture-bo...
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Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.
Dozens of kids and adults in Gaza have starved to death in July as hunger surges
Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.
bit.ly
July 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.
Just donated…please consider doing the same.
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Just donated…please consider doing the same.
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"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Starvation is Spreading in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...
The Starvation Spreading in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Starvation is Spreading in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social Any chance there will be a slight deadline extension this year? Asking for a friend (me!).
July 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social Any chance there will be a slight deadline extension this year? Asking for a friend (me!).
Spent morning observing 1st grade class- joy & movement on the playground, the excitement & play during choice, the earnest responses to the teacher’s questions & provocations; singing along in Spanish… & music, song, gentle words to move the day along. As I left - they were crafting stories. ❤️
May 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spent morning observing 1st grade class- joy & movement on the playground, the excitement & play during choice, the earnest responses to the teacher’s questions & provocations; singing along in Spanish… & music, song, gentle words to move the day along. As I left - they were crafting stories. ❤️
I miss the taxi line at JFK ( the whistle!), browsing for dresses at a department store, paper menus, little hardware shops where the owner scales a ladder to find you mosquito coils…
May 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I miss the taxi line at JFK ( the whistle!), browsing for dresses at a department store, paper menus, little hardware shops where the owner scales a ladder to find you mosquito coils…
Yeeeeep!
You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Yeeeeep!
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Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter
Cuban mother Heidy Sanchez collapsed into tears as she recalled the moment last week when U.S. immigration officials in Florida told her she would be deported and separated from her still-breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter.
www.reuters.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why.
Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he's sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
I love my public library. The main branch of @carnegielibrary.bsky.social is just across from our campus. I bring my kids here often- they have an amazing children's section where they can play, do art, read, and hang out. I'm here right now. The fact that libraries are controversial....
April 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I love my public library. The main branch of @carnegielibrary.bsky.social is just across from our campus. I bring my kids here often- they have an amazing children's section where they can play, do art, read, and hang out. I'm here right now. The fact that libraries are controversial....
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ERIC!
“ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.”
Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research.
www.governing.com/policy/major...
“ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.”
Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research.
www.governing.com/policy/major...
Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week
The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.
www.governing.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ERIC!
“ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.”
Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research.
www.governing.com/policy/major...
“ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.”
Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research.
www.governing.com/policy/major...
Last day with my #diglits undergrads today… I learned I give a lot more work… 😂 but also learned this is the only class many of them speak in and/or know each other’s names. Many students started to hang out & chat on sofas before class each week. I’m thankful they came along on the journey.
April 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Last day with my #diglits undergrads today… I learned I give a lot more work… 😂 but also learned this is the only class many of them speak in and/or know each other’s names. Many students started to hang out & chat on sofas before class each week. I’m thankful they came along on the journey.
So we're back to picking fights with Mr. Rogers, Elmo, and the Wild Kratts?
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So we're back to picking fights with Mr. Rogers, Elmo, and the Wild Kratts?
So many protests! How much air time will protests receive in mainstream TV news? What uncritical headline will Times write? (Vs. story on golf cart orange guy rode in after sending the country into economic shock). Systems are designed for the results they achieve…. Just saying…
April 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
So many protests! How much air time will protests receive in mainstream TV news? What uncritical headline will Times write? (Vs. story on golf cart orange guy rode in after sending the country into economic shock). Systems are designed for the results they achieve…. Just saying…
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Worried about a recession? This sheet-pan water pie will make you feel like it's the 1930s again.
April 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Worried about a recession? This sheet-pan water pie will make you feel like it's the 1930s again.
“If you failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States.” - The Economist
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“If you failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States.” - The Economist
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Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
Why are we still dealing with clunky old sites like canvas? If I could sit with a developer, I would design something so much more dynamic and flexible that actually facilitated learning... and now I must go back to rewrite the announcement that canvas just deleted! 😑
March 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Why are we still dealing with clunky old sites like canvas? If I could sit with a developer, I would design something so much more dynamic and flexible that actually facilitated learning... and now I must go back to rewrite the announcement that canvas just deleted! 😑
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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