Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his)

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*shakes head* I still hate AI…

Tweet by Heritage Foundation co founder criticizing Heritage Action threat to Indiana

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

This is the best thing I’ve seen in awhile #Hamnet

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Can someone buy us a snowblower, because Michigan is Michigan-ing and I don’t have an extra $1000 laying around these days…

Unsettling The Science of Reading: Who is Being Sold A Story? | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington Literacy doesn’t come in a box, we’ll never find our kids at the bottom of a curriculum package, and there can be no broad support for systemic change that excludes input from and support for teachers...

There are multiple ways to learn how to read, and I'm of the opinion that we need many different approaches, including but not limited to phonics and phonemic awareness.

www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Super excited for this afternoon's #literacies session at the Literacy Research Association conference. 1:15-2:45 pm, Mezzanine, Celebrity Ballroom 5! #LRA2025 #Play

Many congrats to Dr. @philnichols.bsky.social and team for receiving the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association conference! You can read the winning article here (ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) #literacies

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Me, right now...

Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies
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The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:

Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.

ya love to see it
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Flow chart from TX Tech memo showing that most class materials must be reviewed by chair, dean, and provost, and that all curricular material must be disclosed

TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.

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Yup! Exactly! Because in some weird universe they believe that these folks will yield federal grants (even with this administration) to help offset the destruction (and illegal termination of grants) that is occurring across higher education *shakes head*

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Me, every time I see an AI + Education position #WhatAreWeDoing #BringBacktheHumanists #FunctionsofFascism

And suddenly I am into hockey… 👀 🏒 🥅

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But I couldn't be happier
Simply couldn't be happier
Well, not simply, 'cause getting your dreams, it's strange, but it seems
A little, well, complicated
There's a kind of a sort of cost
There's a couple of things get lost
There are bridges you cross you didn't know you crossed until you've crossed

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

*yawn* slowly waking up and giving thanks for all of the things #HappyThanksgiving

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Ooof, who's sending out grant rejections the day before Thanksgiving #OhWell #OnwardsandUpwards #MaybeNextTime #NowToEatTurkeyandStuffing

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Zoom doom

students walked into our 90-minute block today and drew one of six prompt options and then had the entire class period to craft their own interpretation using the novel we just read and those 90 minutes of writing were both intense and wonderful and silent and important

This is how we know that the list of professions anger is breaking through. A big issue, that at least one person foresaw, is that it's not enough to consider a historical list of professions. You have to consider the professions that we have, currently, in 2025.

Tablescape #2! Now bring on the turkey! 🍗🎄

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Howard University AI Panel

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

@tylerwmartin.bsky.social knows how to tablescape like none other 🍗🎄

Congrats Dr. @scottstorm.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE25 Promising Researcher Award! Yay!

Congrats to @brownellcassie.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE25 Media Literacy award! Whoo Hoo!