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Great thread below on PD! Where I work, we use the framework see it-name it-do it to structure PD. (Peps also has a terrific framework I like a lot.) Bottom line: we can’t get better at what we haven’t practiced and we can’t practice what we don’t understand.

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It was a pleasure to join! I love taking shop. 🤓

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I live seeing so many local libraries running media literacy trainings for adults. Hoping to start seeing more programming geared at kids, too! As someone who attended computer camp as a kid (and ran a journalism camp as an adult), I could totally imagine some fun summer programming. #tlsky

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Great post. Is fluency work helpful in English class? Yes. Are strategies like round-robin or popcorn reading helpful? Nope. As Alex explains, there are better approaches.

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It feels to me like a high-quality, knowledge building curriculum serves the goals of media literacy in similar ways to literacy in general. The analytical skills we want kids to have get built by knowing enough about the world to ask questions when people make claims about it.

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Love this piece in USA Today: prepping K12 students to understand newsfeed bias is crucial & under-addressed. We have a full chapter on it in Gram & Gran—about a screwball amusement park that only has ring toss booths! (gramandgran.com if you’re curious about teaching media literacy to kids) #tlsky

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It was fun to be quoted in this article on how my community is thinking about kids and technology! Being thoughtful about media literacy and kids' developmental needs is a conversation worth having, wherever you live. mattersmagazineissues.com/Winter2025/?...

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In Holly Korbey's latest here-- check out my take on LA's NAEP gains: they stem from teachers' deep reading science knowledge, powering effective curriculum use. Comprehensive approach is key to a "coherent system" driving progress. https://hollykorbey.substack.com/p/is-the-louisiana-miracle-next-…

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Sarah’s threads are always interesting and useful! Here’s a great one on the critical value of shared mental models for school communities. Wise stuff.

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My favorite thread of 2025 so far. 👇🏼

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Hey, @hibitus-habitus.bsky.social— a children’s librarian compared Gram and Gran Save the Summer to The Mysterious Benedict Society. I just read it — it’s great…an honor to be compared to a book like that!

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Hope you’ll join us! Looks like a lot of cool sessions at this one!

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Get your tickets now for ResearchED NYC! The speaker list is a who’s who of ppl I admire! Should be terrific! www.eventbrite.com/o/researched... #researchED

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Was just saying something like this. As a “teaching novels” proponent, I’m not oblivious to the fact that the way our culture talks to itself is changing and will keep changing. What won’t, however, is the need to analyze how our culture introspects. If we lose that from schools, we lose ourselves.

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Bookmark this great example to use with #MediaLiteracy #NewsLiteracy #InformationLiteracy students. Teach them to ask ?? like: Why does disinfo increase during disasters? Who benefits from inaccurately captioning this as looters? Do you want to follow ppl who post stuff like this? 🍎 📚 #TLSky

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Way to go, Zach. It’s a great book!

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Found this really interesting!

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If you're curious to know more about the role of knowledge in learning and curriculum, download this free e-book, a collaborative effort by an international team of eight experts. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Just was reading about the “trust flip” in images (we used to instinctively rely on video and photos, but those days are gone), and here’s what NYT interrupts with. As an immersive dystopian art project, I have no notes.

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Does Einstein’s famous quote mean he’d have frowned on knowledge-building curricula? Nah. The quote means something much different in context. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

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Helpful post from Tom on teacher autonomy here!

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This fuzzy-ing of details (eg. below) worries me most about misinformation. It’s one thing to know to double check info when it seems suspicious or when you know it matters to you, but might small errata oversaturate the white noise of social media? It already happens, but worried about the pace.

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One of my favorite aspects of edu-social media is that it consistently and repeatedly debunks edu-myths that have unhelpfully burrowed their way into the pedagogical zeitgeist. Here’s hoping Bluesky can be a place for that in 2025! #edusky

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⚠️ Watch out for #AI slop - its presence will only grow: gizmodo.com/metas-ai-pro... 💡 For tips on separating real content from AI fakes, check out our quizzes, posters & more: newslit.org/ai/ #MediaLiteracy

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I cannot overstate how excited I am for this. Should be superlative, and making these arguments come to life practically will be so useful!

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Andrew is a superlative presenter, and I don’t say that lightly. I’m certain this will be well worth your time!

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Happy Belated Public Domain Day! Here’s what’s now available, along with a fav cartoon of mine from a few years ago (credit Lukey McGarry). Go forth and create! #edusky www.npr.org/2024/12/26/n...

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"Our vision can rarely be trusted." Read this and you'll immediately mentally bookmark in "Pareidolia" as a word you will want to come back to time and time again and, really, as a lens into everything we do in this world as humans. A remarkable essay, truly: aeon.co/essays/why-d...

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There are some great resources here—worth sharing with teachers, though best deployed as part of a comprehensive, cross-dept. approach. (And, of course, we still need resources for oft-neglected #middlegrade readers. I have a bias, but I’m shocked that doesn’t get more attention.) #tlsky #skybrarian

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Wishing you a very happy new year, filled with more language and literacy research. Here's a review of all the studies that came across my radar in 2024. Enjoy! #research #reading #writing #cognition #multilingual #language write.as/manderson/wh...

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Hope you are enjoying New Year’s Day! Starting this year putting some random whimsy into the world. The word “oology” means the study of birds’ eggs, and I love that it has 3 egg-shaped o’s in it. It’s almost like how autological words like “sesquipedalian” are examples of what they mean. ❤️ words ❤️

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Catts & Kamhi make a thoughtful case. Shifting the way we assess reading would be almost impossibly hard but valuable. I’m no primary expert, but using content areas in elementary grades to fuse knowledge acquisition & reading instruction (while still preserving time for literature) is compelling.

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