Michael Norton Dando
@mbdando.bsky.social
Comics.
Hip hop.
Education.
Associate Prof of English Education @ St. Cloud State University (skeets = me).
Hip hop.
Education.
Associate Prof of English Education @ St. Cloud State University (skeets = me).
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Michael Norton Dando
@mbdando.bsky.social
· Nov 13
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the son he always wanted
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the son he always wanted
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
T: great job, buddy!
Z: I’m not your buddy, guy. Now get outta my chair!
Z: I’m not your buddy, guy. Now get outta my chair!
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
T: great job, buddy!
Z: I’m not your buddy, guy. Now get outta my chair!
Z: I’m not your buddy, guy. Now get outta my chair!
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The pro-wrestling lady continues to wreak havoc on our education system, this week restricting loans for Graduate-level nursing programs.
This is yet another broadside in the war on women and working families’ access to healthcare. Here are the dominos that will fall: 1/x
This is yet another broadside in the war on women and working families’ access to healthcare. Here are the dominos that will fall: 1/x
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The pro-wrestling lady continues to wreak havoc on our education system, this week restricting loans for Graduate-level nursing programs.
This is yet another broadside in the war on women and working families’ access to healthcare. Here are the dominos that will fall: 1/x
This is yet another broadside in the war on women and working families’ access to healthcare. Here are the dominos that will fall: 1/x
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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A6: I really went for it with my undergrad students this year! We designed a whole unit around digging into their favorite discourse communities (i.e. fandoms), studying the genres they use, and ultimately producing a text that they felt was authentic to that community. #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A6: I really went for it with my undergrad students this year! We designed a whole unit around digging into their favorite discourse communities (i.e. fandoms), studying the genres they use, and ultimately producing a text that they felt was authentic to that community. #literacies
A5: oftentimes, the product becomes the point. So, “making a comic” for example overtakes any pedagogic benefit.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
Q5: An issue we've seen with integrating youth fandom #literacies into educational spaces is that these practices get co-opted or deadened. Have you seen this? How do we avoid these issues?
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A5: oftentimes, the product becomes the point. So, “making a comic” for example overtakes any pedagogic benefit.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
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A3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies
Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies
A3: distributed #literacy and expertise. Power and knowledge production become shared and co-generative. Transmediated, transliterated, and multimodal approaches mean un-fixed/unsettled meaning making. Possibilities for play, remix and imagination abound.
Q4: We invite teachers to take up a "comic convention" model of teaching as described below. What do you notice about this kind of classroom? How does it shift current instructional paradigms?
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A3: distributed #literacy and expertise. Power and knowledge production become shared and co-generative. Transmediated, transliterated, and multimodal approaches mean un-fixed/unsettled meaning making. Possibilities for play, remix and imagination abound.
A3: In both comics and hip hop culture any number of critical issues and lenses immediately bubble to the surface. This doesn’t mean they are to be discarded. Rather the #literacies developed through loving critique makes fan spaces that shape epistemology and reality that much better.
Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A3: In both comics and hip hop culture any number of critical issues and lenses immediately bubble to the surface. This doesn’t mean they are to be discarded. Rather the #literacies developed through loving critique makes fan spaces that shape epistemology and reality that much better.
There’s not a basket big enough to hold all these deplorables.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
There’s not a basket big enough to hold all these deplorables.
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Corps and (some in) ed tech are making assumptions about AI proliferation in edu for which there just isn't a recent research basis.... assumptions that do not reflect the reality of youth literate lives.
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Corps and (some in) ed tech are making assumptions about AI proliferation in edu for which there just isn't a recent research basis.... assumptions that do not reflect the reality of youth literate lives.
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
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On days like today I like to recall some wise advice: hope is not a fleeting emotion, it is a discipline.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
On days like today I like to recall some wise advice: hope is not a fleeting emotion, it is a discipline.
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Q5: OK send us out with a great album! It could be a pop banger, something obscure that will make us too cool for school, or something the kids are boppin’ to. Whatcha got!? #popplaypod
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Q5: OK send us out with a great album! It could be a pop banger, something obscure that will make us too cool for school, or something the kids are boppin’ to. Whatcha got!? #popplaypod
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Q4: What now? Does music seep into other aspects of your life (dancing, fashion, learning instruments, article titles, etc)? How? #popplaypod
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Q4: What now? Does music seep into other aspects of your life (dancing, fashion, learning instruments, article titles, etc)? How? #popplaypod
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Join us 11/13 at 9:15pm ET for a live chat to continue the conversation about play, music, and community. @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I will be joined by episode guest @brownellcassie.bsky.social and @lmv.bsky.social, but we want to talk to you too! Follow this feed and/or tag #popoff or #popplaypod
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Join us 11/13 at 9:15pm ET for a live chat to continue the conversation about play, music, and community. @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I will be joined by episode guest @brownellcassie.bsky.social and @lmv.bsky.social, but we want to talk to you too! Follow this feed and/or tag #popoff or #popplaypod
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
The @democrats.org are an unserious party. Feckless and naive. With the exception of Obama, they’ve been letting us down and getting their asses kicked my entire adult life.
Their complicity and/or incompetence is costing people their lives.
Their complicity and/or incompetence is costing people their lives.
a man in a suit and tie with nbc written on the bottom right
ALT: a man in a suit and tie with nbc written on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The @democrats.org are an unserious party. Feckless and naive. With the exception of Obama, they’ve been letting us down and getting their asses kicked my entire adult life.
Their complicity and/or incompetence is costing people their lives.
Their complicity and/or incompetence is costing people their lives.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
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Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.