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Alex Bacalja

@alexbacalja.bsky.social

Digital Game Literacies - Critical Pedagogies - English Language Arts - Youth Literacies - Critical EdTech - Postdigital research. The University of Melbourne.

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Imagining critical digital game futures: a postdigital perspective Digital games have become ubiquitous educational technologies, deployed across a range of contexts for the purposes of supporting diverse teaching and learning goals. This deployment has been under...

New OA pub.
What if there were ways of thinking and working with digital games in schools that moved beyond the rhetoric of boosters and alarmists?
This article argues for a digital games/learning relationship characterised by critical imagined digital futures.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

26.02.2026 04:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just me trying to figure out whether ideas from the postdigital turn might be useful for helping English education escape the clutches of neoliberalism. Keen to hear what people think. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

29.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This has played out with shocking consequences in academic publishing. Academics can pump out more papers than ever, and quicker. Only to free up time to peer-review the endless stream of AI-papers that are being pumped out.

06.01.2026 01:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I would pay serious money for this.

28.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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You forgot videogames.

11.11.2025 00:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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//Literacy education and the postdigital: International perspectives// You are invited to join an online seminar organised by the ARLE SIG Technology and Literacy Education (TALE). ➤ Date: Thurs 20 Nov 2025 ➤ Time: 7-8pm AEDT, 8-9am GMT, 9-10am CET, 10-11am EET ➤ Ve...

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05.11.2025 04:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rego link in the comments.

05.11.2025 04:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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HOUSE WITH RED DOOR
2025
Acrylic paint on white card.

09.10.2025 01:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last chance to join our Karen Barad "Meeting the Universe Halfway" reading group. See attached flyer for info. Meeting times will be Australian Eastern Standard Time friendly.

24.09.2025 04:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Digital Tool

22.09.2025 07:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RABBIT
2025.
Acrylic paint and goggle eyes on paper plate with card.

01.09.2025 07:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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STRAWBERRY ICECREAM
Coloured paper, glitter on card.
2025

07.08.2025 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DINOSAUR
2025
Clay on card.

24.07.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HOUSE
Coloured card, glue. 2025

23.07.2025 03:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've also set up a new feed. You can find it on MySpace with highlights through IRC.

01.07.2025 10:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fragmentation or evolution?

26.06.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Senior researchers, what are you doing tomorrow?

Helping DECRA applicants navigate their referee reports, that's what you're doing tomorrow.

Book in some quality time with them now. Normally reports drop around ~11am AEST.

24.06.2025 06:11 — 👍 52    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1

Be honest - you were on the loo when you typed this?

23.06.2025 03:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like annual performance reviews and grant submissions.

21.06.2025 23:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The measure to determine if you've made it in academia. Congrats.

20.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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WORM
Paper mache on card, 2025

20.06.2025 03:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TACO
Coloured cloth on cardboard. 2025

20.06.2025 03:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We almost never let kids choose their own texts in school English. We'd much rather give them shit they'd hate and then complain when they disengage.

17.06.2025 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'll be presenting also at *checks notes* 1:30-3:30am tomorrow. FML.

30.05.2025 07:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Friday, May 30th, 2025

Clayton Childress (UBC). How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library

Simone Murray (Monash), Michelle J. Smith (Monash) and Alex Bacalja (U.Melb), Where Is the Digital in High-school English?

Alexander Manshel (McGill), CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism

Ben Libman (Stanford), Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In

Friday, May 30th, 2025 Clayton Childress (UBC). How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library Simone Murray (Monash), Michelle J. Smith (Monash) and Alex Bacalja (U.Melb), Where Is the Digital in High-school English? Alexander Manshel (McGill), CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism Ben Libman (Stanford), Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In

On Friday, May 30th...Clayton Childress, Simone Murray, Michelle Smith, @alexbacalja.bsky.social, @benlibman.bsky.social, and me on "The Curricular and the Extra-Curricular"...

21.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Predigital, Digital, and Postdigital English: Probing Alternate English Education Futures Predigital, Digital, and Postdigital English: Probing Alternate English Education Futures

www.academia.edu/129312565/Pr...

12.05.2025 01:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What does it mean for an English curriculum to be predigital, digital or postdigital? This new analysis of the New Zealand's latest draft national English curriculum suggests are have a long way to go to adequately prepare young people for a postdigital age. Link to the article in the comments.

12.05.2025 01:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thank you to the the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English and ACMI for the opportunity. Link to the full slide deck in the comments.

12.05.2025 01:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0