mighty chen

I fear that this will be how AI plays out in education too: an acknowledged band-aid but better than nothing.

01.07.2025 13:21 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – but we found it can sometimes make it worse Efforts to simplify teachers’ jobs through technology can backfire without a strong focus on teacher well-being.

🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.”

Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.

29.06.2025 09:41 — 👍 174    🔁 65    💬 15    📌 26

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

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

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 — 👍 25    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1

I find it difficult to find the balance between "I want people to take me seriously" and "I want to do shenanigans like publishing this image in academia"

Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education, under Literacies in the Platform Society is now out!

doi.org/10.4324/9781...

27.06.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The cover of the book "Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities" edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia.

The chapter abstract. The abstract reads, "This chapter takes up the question of how we understand “literacies” in relation to platform technologies—and specifically, the benefits or drawbacks of extending the term to include competencies related to platformization. Merging insights from sociocultural literacy studies and computer science education research on “computational literacies,” we argue that there are both institutional and pragmatic challenges for literacy researchers to consider in choosing the terminology they use. Institutionally, while the interest of STEM fields in adopting the language of “literacy” may appear to lend prestige to literacy research (and researchers), it also risks reproducing “Great Divide” narratives that the field of sociocultural literacy studies has long critiqued. This relates to the pragmatic challenge that, in allowing the term “literacies” to be stretched too broadly, it may lose its capacity to explain those aspects of platforms and platformizations that are more closely associated with reading, writing, and textual practice. While there are no definitive lines to be drawn for when and how the term “literacies” ought to be used, the chapter offers questions and considerations to aid researchers and teachers in making their own determinations."

*New publication alert*

I'm excited to share "Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions," a chapter @jmhiggs.bsky.social, @sepehrvakil.bsky.social, and I wrote for Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities. 🧵

26.06.2025 14:15 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

05.05.2025 14:31 — 👍 8230    🔁 1591    💬 209    📌 117

📢 Your favorite math teaching platform is expanding to more subjects!

🎉 On June 28, Desmos Classroom becomes Amplify Classroom as we broaden our free lessons to science and literacy. Enjoy all the activities and features you love, plus so much more!

🔗 amplify.com/AmplifyClassroomFAQ

28.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 4

i just want to finish this essay, but i keep running into a hole of “our education system is supposed to be a factory” and then I have no argument and no way to get out of it

16.03.2025 01:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Ethan Mollick says that higher education is in 'absolute chaos' because technology is changing faster than the industry is willing to change" - ah, the old "blame the slow, reluctant educators" trick, designed to deflect valid criticism and pushback of the tech industry that caused the problem

21.11.2024 18:50 — 👍 64    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 3

do teachers need or want a "one stop shop" for all their teaching tools?

is it better to have 5 platforms with good features that can't talk to each other or to have 1 coherent platform with 5 mid features?

14.11.2024 22:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0