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Cultivating New Futures for Girls in STEM 9780807787687 | Teachers College Press Teachers College Press

Order our book directly from the @tcpress.bsky.social and use GIRLSTEM for 15% off at check out. www.tcpress.com/cultivating-...

22.11.2025 02:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amazon.com: Cultivating New Futures for Girls in STEM: Black Women Teachers as Catalysts for Change (Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series): 9780807787687: Norris, Aaminah, Lizárraga, José Ramón, Pa... Amazon.com: Cultivating New Futures for Girls in STEM: Black Women Teachers as Catalysts for Change (Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series): 9780807787687: Norris, Aaminah, Lizárraga, José Ramón, Pa...

Order our book from Amazon for 2 day delivery (Prime members): a.co/d/8FYV3d1

22.11.2025 02:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Launch day! Our co-edited book (with @aaminahm.bsky.social) Cultivating New Futures for Girls in STEM is out now.

Available on amazon + Teachers College Press (15% off w/ GIRLSTEM). Links in thread.

So excited to share this with you all.

22.11.2025 02:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Just received the advance copies of the beautiful book that @aaminahm.bsky.social and I co-edited! Buy yours today and use GIRLSTEM for 15%off. www.tcpress.com/cultivating-...

28.10.2025 15:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*our not "your." tho it is now released to the world...so I guess it's yours too ;-).

28.10.2025 03:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series – Education Now Lab

Tonight is speculative pedagogies night in Critical Perspectives in Tech in Edu! We're starting with the work of @drsmarturo.bsky.social & @drthembot.bsky.social. Check out our convo with them two years ago at about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/cr...

25.09.2025 00:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Thrilled to announce that your piece "Rogue Jotería Platformization: co-constructing queer futurities in Latinx digital drag ecologies" is published and open-access!

Super proud of this collaboration with @drsmarturo.bsky.social and Mariel Reyes-Galvez.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

27.10.2025 18:47 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Our book, co-edited with @aaminahm.bsky.social, is now in production!

Forward by Carol D. Lee. Part of TCP's Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series, edited by @djangoparis.bsky.social.

Stay tuned for book tour events!

Pre-order here: www.tcpress.com/cultivating-...

03.09.2025 19:28 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Pedagogía de un carnicero My Father’s Legacy of Mentorship, Craft, and Care

Pedagogía de un carnicero
open.substack.com/pub/joserliz...

01.08.2025 21:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge.

Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge.

Text from the Table of the Contents.
List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia

PART I — Histories
New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for
Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer

Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan

Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From
Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

Text from the Table of the Contents. List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments. Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia PART I — Histories New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

Table of contents, continued. 

Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim

Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson

PART II - Pedagogies

Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer

Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki

Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen

Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca

Table of contents, continued. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson PART II - Pedagogies Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca

Table of contents, continued.

Part 3 - Possibilities

As We May Mark by Remi Kalir

Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton

Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly)
Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien

Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley

Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez

Index

Table of contents, continued. Part 3 - Possibilities As We May Mark by Remi Kalir Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly) Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez Index

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉

It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.

www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...

27.06.2025 19:29 👍 27 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1
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#AERA attendees!
Make sure to mark your calendars for @krisgu ‘s Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Lecture. This is the PREMIER acknowledgment of outstanding success in the field and the lecture is bound to be phenomenal!

24.03.2025 07:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Our holiday card, inspired by 1950’s illustrations, is out!

22.12.2024 06:21 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

😂 who is this?!

28.11.2024 22:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Table set. Intimate gathering, flexing my Martha Stewart muscle.

28.11.2024 21:13 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.

22.11.2024 12:35 👍 61515 🔁 6645 💬 3797 📌 1716
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Join us in a couple of hours!! #NCTE24

21.11.2024 15:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Boston-bound. Who am I seeing at #ncte24?

20.11.2024 23:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm gonna miss you!!!!!!!! ❤️ 🫶

18.11.2024 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happiest of birthdays to Mama Ru! Yes, she's that tall...I'm 5'11".

18.11.2024 05:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you know you can always come over to cook some yumminess and drink way too much wine.

18.11.2024 05:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our neighbor asked if we have any plans for Thanksgiving. I told him I go "All Martha Stewart." He didn't quite understand.

18.11.2024 03:30 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lil RuPawl is also now on this app!

bsky.app/profile/rupa...

17.11.2024 20:55 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Coming to NCTE in Boston? Join the brilliant Cliff Lee and me for a conversation on Youth Ingenuity and Artificial Intelligence.

16.11.2024 15:56 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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As AI proliferates in higher ed, we must ask how (& if) these tools - riddled w biases, rooted in carceral violence, used for surveillance more often than for learning, & reliant upon environmental destruction - can manifest the equitable futures Big Tech promises us

All this & more on Nov 15 💪🏽

14.11.2024 03:29 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Colegas, Raza! Join me for a conversation on Decolonizing AI as part of the Techqueria Latiné Heritage Month Summit!

Registration is FREE.

hopin.com/events/techq...

29.09.2023 23:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello!!!

23.09.2023 05:51 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0