Em Bee

I am "no I don't want to sleep on your couch"years old

15 x 2 is 30
So it’s 30 x 18
18 x 3 is 54
So it’s 540

NCTE is over double the size of CCCC, but honestly very well run and didn’t feel unmanageable. And lots of panels aren’t relevant to your level(s) or interest(s) so it’s easy to focus on what is relevant.

We got a travel one for our very first plane ride trip, and he just loves it. I recommend it to anybody with kids in their life under 10.

Currently on sale for under $100, and we have a toddler, so -- a Yoto player! A very simple and intuitive digital boombox, with cards instead of CDs to play music.

In addition to "slop", the over-eager introduction of Gen "AI" into everything feels increasingly like the moments when lead went into paint or asbestos when into every ceiling.

Society will be cleaning up the various types of damage for far longer than the profiteers will exist.

But NCTE & CCCC are really the "home" bases for me. CCCC's vibes can be a little desperate though re: the job market [SO many PhD students. SO much jockeying], whereas NCTE does not feel job market focused, which makes sense given that it's PreK-16.

I'm really excited that after my experience in Denver, NCTE is going to go into my national conference rotation! It felt like a very practical and supportive space for teachers of English. CCCC and NCTE are the two national conferences in my field, and I've also enjoyed SAMLA, SEACS, & PCA/ACA --

They should write a narrative about trans women that’s still compelling after you’ve done this for a few years

Why do I want wet bread instead of any other carb!!

So many jobs are not about creating shareholder value and I get that almost my entire social circle is teachers & therapists but there are ways to not work for Lockheed Martin

The right answer is stuffing.

I'm 40 years old, please don't make me "discuss in a breakout room".

it’s so impressive to read a piece that manages to be homophobic in pursuit of “visibility” or w/e

queer scholarly publishing :

even when AI is surveying reputable sources, we shouldn't forget that summarizing and synthesizing are interpretive activities that involve selecting what is most significant or salient to ongoing discussions. even if AI were unbiased, this is creative work that we should be doing.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

"You're my hope. You’ve saved my life more than you'll ever know, on days you didn't know, and you're the reason I'm alive today. And I could never thank you enough for helping me stay one more day."

This is the message that @mychal3ts.bsky.social delivered to teachers at #NCTE25 today.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

"your life would be better if you never saw this"

the funniest part about this post is that it's not an image

To quote a comedian, I’m dry as a chip here in Denver

Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?

Am I going to cry in EVERY #NCTE25 session? It’s certainly possible.

A long outdoor queue of people outside of a convention center in bright sunlight, most in coats with bags

why are you hating outside the club* when you can’t even get in**

*Colorado Convention Center
**get through bag check at #NCTE25

#NCTE25 talk was very fun! Also a little chaotic! It’s the start of my thinking about a particular strand of alternative assessment issue, and definitely wasn’t like, a polished or satisfyingly complete set of ideas. I’m so grateful for the folks that came to 45 minutes (!!) of my own deal!!

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

Biggest shocker at my talk today, which is consistent with my other talks and media stuff, is that the acceptance rate for men and women are different at highly selective institutions. Men have a much higher acceptance rate because most colleges are scared to go beyond a 60/40 ratio.

Southern ppl really don’t say “bless your heart” that much. It’s the bacon in everything of southern stereotypes.

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?