Dr Susan D Blum

I just came across a new review of my book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning. The reviewer, Jake Mattox, appreciated the wide reading in multiple areas that accompanied my manifesto/tirade/prayer. radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

Or you could have one with #GenAIResistors

October 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social writes, "What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force."

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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Fascism | Holocaust Encyclopedia Fascism is a far-right authoritarian political philosophy. Learn about the history and principles of fascism and its implementation in Nazi Germany.

AntiFa = Anti-Fascist. If you’re opposing this, you’re ProFa, = Pro-Fascist, or possibly Anti-Anti-Fascist. I know where I stand.

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2/2 But heartbreaking, for those of us who still believe in the ideals of learning-with-others.

1/2 The absurd conclusion of all this GenAI stuff is faculty creating courses entirely w AI; students completing assignments w agentive AI; faculty grading w AI. No humans need be changed in this process. No learning will be required. Easy peasy.

#GenerativeAI

School Story Lab

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely!
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We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

Magic Wand Dreaming of What Higher Education Could Be

The world we desire will not come about unless we dream it first. Here are some thoughts about higher education.

#highereducation

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Promise??? 😬

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

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“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”

Release the Epstein Files. They are filled with disgusting depravity but we need to know

I'm not sure it saves time but it makes the work more meaningful.

The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning [Ricci PhD, Carlo, Riley PhD, Gina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning

This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...

If the Democrats wanted to win, they would do whatever they needed to do to convince Mira Nair to do all of their video campaigns

“Both of them.”

Lying brazenly is a job requirement in this dictatorship

New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes A new mRNA cancer vaccine wiped out tumors in mice and may offer a path toward a universal treatment.

FIRE RFK Jr!! WE WANT THE CANCER VACCINE!!!
“New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes”
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On the belief that I should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I got a Pfizer covid vaccine rather than waiting for Novovax. I’m afraid they are going to take them away in Indiana, b/c of our administration’s fealty to the orange menace, so I decided not to wait

The rich pleasures—and lessons—of a college campus Mini-universe, mini-society, humans gathering together, led by art

An experience at a campus theater production made me think about higher ed as practicing being in society. I know this is not news! But it struck me forcefully, and in a great way. My latest Substack post:

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TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

It’s time to shut down the government. Democrats have weeks to prepare about how to make the case to the people. Watch how Pres Bartlet did it in The West Wing.

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Immoral, plus illegal. Enforced by….karma?

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The… | Ben Willi... A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The Construction...

#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans.

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They lie, steal, cheat, boast, destroy, even kill. #TheReckoningWillCome and we’ll clean up our house, de-MAGAify, the way the Germans denazified. Sooner would be good. There will be one defector, then another, and it will accelerate. Gradually, then all at once.

Sickening sycophants

For all the people, especially Democratic leaders, who keep saying, "Trump can't do that! It's illegal!"

Authoritarians can do anything they want. They don't care about laws, order, rules, or civility.

Once they have power, they flex it.

I hope Dems finally understand this.

I stand with #Chicago and the rule of law. I stand with truth. I stand with peace.

#EjectTrumpTheTraitor