Brady Nash
@nashb.bsky.social
English Education scholar. Digital/critical literacies. Read my stuff here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brady-Nash-2
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"Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Uncertainty reigns as Trump claims China approved TikTok deal.
arstechnica.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social
New policy brief: Educators should reassess the hidden impacts of ed tech ecosystems on teaching, learning, and student data. bit.ly/46C2JXT
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social
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We pause to honor the extraordinary contributions of Dr. Kylene Beers to NCTE and the literacy field.
Kylene spurred our leadership forward at every turn. Many recognize her as a giant, and she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and as a proud member of the Middle Level section.
Kylene spurred our leadership forward at every turn. Many recognize her as a giant, and she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and as a proud member of the Middle Level section.
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We pause to honor the extraordinary contributions of Dr. Kylene Beers to NCTE and the literacy field.
Kylene spurred our leadership forward at every turn. Many recognize her as a giant, and she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and as a proud member of the Middle Level section.
Kylene spurred our leadership forward at every turn. Many recognize her as a giant, and she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and as a proud member of the Middle Level section.
Or both at the same time.
The two stages of tech regulation:
1) It is too early, we shouldn’t stifle innovation by regulating this new technology.
2) It is too late, the cat is out of the bag, we shouldn’t waste our time regulating this technology, we just have to learn to live with it.
There are no other stages.
1) It is too early, we shouldn’t stifle innovation by regulating this new technology.
2) It is too late, the cat is out of the bag, we shouldn’t waste our time regulating this technology, we just have to learn to live with it.
There are no other stages.
Opening a significant Senate hearing on AI policy at which Sam Altman will testify, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) calls for a hands-off approach: "To lead in AI, the United States cannot allow regulation, even the supposedly benign kind, to choke innovation."
Live: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/5/winni...
Live: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/5/winni...
May 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Or both at the same time.
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How can we redesign multiliteracies to navigate today’s complex, racialized, and digital landscapes? Find out in @nashb.bsky.social and Allison Skerrett's article in the Spring 2025 issue of #HarvardEdReview: https://bit.ly/42oYfCS
April 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How can we redesign multiliteracies to navigate today’s complex, racialized, and digital landscapes? Find out in @nashb.bsky.social and Allison Skerrett's article in the Spring 2025 issue of #HarvardEdReview: https://bit.ly/42oYfCS
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Made this purely for memes, if this becomes true, I demand to be made into a prophet.
January 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Made this purely for memes, if this becomes true, I demand to be made into a prophet.
Despite all of the lunacy, I'm excited to share this essay written with my colleague and mentor Allison Skerrett. We look back at #multiliteracies and ask: What kinds of agency are possible today? The 1996 article is being reprinted alongside a new commentary from Cope and Kalantzis. DM for PDF!
March 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Despite all of the lunacy, I'm excited to share this essay written with my colleague and mentor Allison Skerrett. We look back at #multiliteracies and ask: What kinds of agency are possible today? The 1996 article is being reprinted alongside a new commentary from Cope and Kalantzis. DM for PDF!
Really like this framing: "since we can't witness everything ourselves..." Our basic concepts of what is real or happening depend upon our trust in social groups (eg, scientists, reporters) we have learned to assume are relatively correct. Who we trust, what we read/watch/etc. becomes reality.
Since we can’t witness everything ourselves, we rely on media and trusted sources to shape our understanding of the world. But this also means that whoever controls the flow of information can manipulate public perception in ways that serve their own interests.
February 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Really like this framing: "since we can't witness everything ourselves..." Our basic concepts of what is real or happening depend upon our trust in social groups (eg, scientists, reporters) we have learned to assume are relatively correct. Who we trust, what we read/watch/etc. becomes reality.
In Cindy Pon's speculative novels Want and Rise, a fascist government and technology oligarchs conspire to destroy the environment so they can sell technologies that assuage the impacts of pollution. So teenagers become ecoterrorists. What can we learn from them? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Technology, Oppression, and Resistance in Speculative Young Adult Fiction - Children's Literature in Education
The article offers a close textual analysis of Cindy Pon’s speculative young adult (YA) novels, Want and Ruse, focused on the role of technology as both a facilitator of oppression and a tool for resi...
link.springer.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In Cindy Pon's speculative novels Want and Rise, a fascist government and technology oligarchs conspire to destroy the environment so they can sell technologies that assuage the impacts of pollution. So teenagers become ecoterrorists. What can we learn from them? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
There is always available an existential question about whether your actions matter given the giant scope of how things change. What you do does matter even as the world turns though. Great thread from Cody.
... find where you can make change when change is needed; find where you can defend good things when good things need defended. No one can do it all, but everyone can do something.
January 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There is always available an existential question about whether your actions matter given the giant scope of how things change. What you do does matter even as the world turns though. Great thread from Cody.
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I know TikTok aren’t “the good guys” here. Like any massive platform created to addict us, surveil us, & harvest our attention for digital dollars, it is built on extractive logics that are bad.
But god damn—people did amazing stuff on there. Has Instagram Reels ever given us something like this?
But god damn—people did amazing stuff on there. Has Instagram Reels ever given us something like this?
January 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I know TikTok aren’t “the good guys” here. Like any massive platform created to addict us, surveil us, & harvest our attention for digital dollars, it is built on extractive logics that are bad.
But god damn—people did amazing stuff on there. Has Instagram Reels ever given us something like this?
But god damn—people did amazing stuff on there. Has Instagram Reels ever given us something like this?
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We cover how a strategically timed pre-election lawsuit is reemerging in North Carolina to create a lever for throwing out results after an election-deniers’ preferred candidate lost. Read and share www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-ste...
January 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We cover how a strategically timed pre-election lawsuit is reemerging in North Carolina to create a lever for throwing out results after an election-deniers’ preferred candidate lost. Read and share www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-ste...
100%.The prioritizing of narrative and emotional attachments to ideas, people, etc. when those attachments conflict with true information also isn't some strange aberration or the possession of one incorrect group, it's the way people make sense of the world.
For many people, a lie or factually inaccurate post or statement doesn't register as misinformation if its core message aligns with their preexisting beliefs or worldview. #ConfirmationBias #CognitiveDissonance #BeliefPerseverance
Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.
January 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
100%.The prioritizing of narrative and emotional attachments to ideas, people, etc. when those attachments conflict with true information also isn't some strange aberration or the possession of one incorrect group, it's the way people make sense of the world.
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While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Premise for a Don't Look Up sequel?
What's disappointing about this drone thing is that if any alien species ever did decide to make first contact, this nation would implode.
No Independence Day here; that's clearly not the US, not in this timeline 🫠
No Independence Day here; that's clearly not the US, not in this timeline 🫠
December 19, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Premise for a Don't Look Up sequel?
Yes. Constant mistaking the products of thought for thought itself. +The idea that the only thing you need to do yourself is construct the actual words (to create ownership of it). A lot of suggestions for having #AI brainstorm research topics, outlines, arguments. This is the thinking and learning!
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Yes. Constant mistaking the products of thought for thought itself. +The idea that the only thing you need to do yourself is construct the actual words (to create ownership of it). A lot of suggestions for having #AI brainstorm research topics, outlines, arguments. This is the thinking and learning!
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History of edtech and automation is that actually teacher time is rarely reduced. Rensfeldt, A. B., & Rahm, L. (2023). Automating Teacher Work? A History of the Politics of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Education. Postdigital Science and Education, 5(1), 25–43. doi.org/10.1007/s424...
Automating Teacher Work? A History of the Politics of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Education - Postdigital Science and Education
The debate on automation in education is also a debate on teachers’ work. Throughout history, promises of labor-saving and efficient automation technologies have been repeatedly promoted, while resear...
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November 11, 2024 at 10:31 AM
History of edtech and automation is that actually teacher time is rarely reduced. Rensfeldt, A. B., & Rahm, L. (2023). Automating Teacher Work? A History of the Politics of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Education. Postdigital Science and Education, 5(1), 25–43. doi.org/10.1007/s424...
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Hey #LRA paid members. We need more signatures to better support organizational transparency. www.change.org/p/amend-byla...
Sign the Petition
Amend Bylaws - An Elected Nominating Committee
www.change.org
December 8, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Hey #LRA paid members. We need more signatures to better support organizational transparency. www.change.org/p/amend-byla...
@alexbacalja.bsky.social has been leading the charge of bringing Postdigital perspectives to bear on gaming literacies. Join the party by contributing to a new edited collection. Builds on this piece in Postdigital Science and Education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 8, 2024 at 8:36 PM
@alexbacalja.bsky.social has been leading the charge of bringing Postdigital perspectives to bear on gaming literacies. Join the party by contributing to a new edited collection. Builds on this piece in Postdigital Science and Education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It would be an interesting #medialiteracy activity to compare/contrast politicians' or commenters' free speech rhetoric with actions/policies, maybe a mix and match of actions (banning books, regulating speech you disagree with, etc.) with expressed values. #edusky
Wow...Things are definitely going to be moving faster than the public's ability to understand and muster an adequate response ... "GOP FTC Commissioners Abuse “Free Speech” Rhetoric To Push For Government Control Over Online Speech" www.techdirt.com/2024/12/06/g...
December 8, 2024 at 3:35 PM
It would be an interesting #medialiteracy activity to compare/contrast politicians' or commenters' free speech rhetoric with actions/policies, maybe a mix and match of actions (banning books, regulating speech you disagree with, etc.) with expressed values. #edusky
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We have long known that "emotion = distribution" www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/like...
In a paper published in 2010/11, our @gruzd.ca, S. Dorion & @philipmai.com showed that content w/strong emotional valence gets more engagement. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/571...
In a paper published in 2010/11, our @gruzd.ca, S. Dorion & @philipmai.com showed that content w/strong emotional valence gets more engagement. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/571...
Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics
Is happiness contagious online? To answer this question, this paper investigates the posting behavior of users on Twitter.com, a popular online service for sharing short messages. Specifically, we use...
ieeexplore.ieee.org
December 7, 2024 at 11:28 AM
We have long known that "emotion = distribution" www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/like...
In a paper published in 2010/11, our @gruzd.ca, S. Dorion & @philipmai.com showed that content w/strong emotional valence gets more engagement. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/571...
In a paper published in 2010/11, our @gruzd.ca, S. Dorion & @philipmai.com showed that content w/strong emotional valence gets more engagement. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/571...
We're likely to enter a world in which every possible human interaction is replaced with good-enough-for-the-moment mechanized interaction, regardless the problems. I imagine this world will subtly but deeply increase systemic alienation + our feelings of being separated and isolated and alone.
“Engineers who designed virtual nurses or AI therapists often told me their technology was ‘better than nothing,’ particularly useful for low-income people who can’t catch the attention of busy nurses in community clinics, for example, or who can’t afford therapy.”
The Rich Can Afford Personal Care. The Rest Will Have to Make Do With AI
From personal trainers to in-person therapy, only the wealthy have access to human connection. What are the options for the less advantaged?
www.wired.com
December 7, 2024 at 4:07 PM
We're likely to enter a world in which every possible human interaction is replaced with good-enough-for-the-moment mechanized interaction, regardless the problems. I imagine this world will subtly but deeply increase systemic alienation + our feelings of being separated and isolated and alone.
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This is dope. ♥️
What is your favorite critical technology quote?
We have a list of quotes from Thoreau to MLK to Douglas Adams to Safiya Noble. Educators can use the activity to help students start thinking more critically about technology: www.civicsoftechnology.org/technology-q...
What quotes should we add?
We have a list of quotes from Thoreau to MLK to Douglas Adams to Safiya Noble. Educators can use the activity to help students start thinking more critically about technology: www.civicsoftechnology.org/technology-q...
What quotes should we add?
Technology Quotes Activity — Civics of Technology
www.civicsoftechnology.org
December 6, 2024 at 3:46 AM
This is dope. ♥️
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Among the most important critiques of GAI embedding everywhere is that it encourages a situation where human interaction is a luxury not an expectation. We are humans. we need human interaction. And human care. These tools encourage an outsourcing of self that we should not accept.
Annd here's one more just out today. This builds on the previous piece about academic GAI use, and asks questions about agency and refusal: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Academics’ Weak(ening) Resistance to Generative AI: The Cause and Cost of Prestige? - Postdigital Science and Education
The disruptive potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools to academic labour is potentially vast. Yet as we argue herein, such tools also represent a continuation of the inequities inherent to academia’...
link.springer.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Among the most important critiques of GAI embedding everywhere is that it encourages a situation where human interaction is a luxury not an expectation. We are humans. we need human interaction. And human care. These tools encourage an outsourcing of self that we should not accept.