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Nicky Agate
@terrainsvagues.bsky.social
Open knowledge & values-enacted leadership
Rises early for birds, bikes, & beasts

Associate Dean @library.cmu.edu
Editorial Director @cmupress.bsky.social
Co-PI @humetricshss.bsky.social
PI library.cmu.edu/poem

In cahoots w/ @rnisa.bsky.social
Channel the king vulture and they shall be done
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Deadline to submit is September 17
Submit your materials here:
🔗 hov.to/37bcce17 or scan the QR code above
Call for Teaching and Learning Objects: Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies (POEM)
Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies (POEM) Created at Carnegie Mellon University, POEM is a dynamic collection of teaching resources that addresses crucial digital literacy challenges across t...
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July 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Final selections will be published bilingually under a CC-BY-NC license and made freely available to educators.
July 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We’re looking for openly licensed resources that help students engage critically with AI, data, and media/disinformation literacies—in English or Spanish.

Lesson plans, assignments, videos, games, podcasts—formats are wide open.
July 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The call for teaching and learning objects goes out next week. Keep an eye out, and please share with your networks when you see it!

#AILiteracy #AcademicLabor #OpenEd #MediaLiteracy #DataLiteracy
July 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
So we’re proceeding—with care, with clarity, and with intention. This won’t be the POEM we first imagined. But it will still be a resource we believe in.
July 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I guess this is what negotiating conflicting values looks like. We believe labor deserves compensation. And that learners need resources now. And that the IMLS matters.
July 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
But two-thirds of us have decided to continue. Not because we don’t believe in compensation or in the essential nature of IMLS—we absolutely do—but because the need for these literacies is too urgent.
July 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM