Anna Smith
writing | tech & new media | learning theory | lead co-editor @lrtmp.bsky.social | 25-26 Provost Fellow | initiating member @EduNowLab.bsky.social | Past Exec B NCRLL | Past Chair AERA @writinglit.bsky.social
- First read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's article (not the Wired one, but the one linked in this first post) and then this thread....
- Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
- Reposted by Anna SmithJoin us for our February #literacies chat on the intersections between gaming and literacy with @elpatronhimself.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Anna SmithFebruary Tech Talk tonight! 8:00 Eastern Time Register below to join the conversation! oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Check out the new Video Journal of Education! Seeking 1st issue authors...short video article (6-15 min), grounded in research & accessible to non-specialist audiences...not only share your work but model possibilities for this form: ctc.exodar.janeway.systems/vjer/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGPW...
- Reposted by Anna SmithAnchor your interests & lines of inquiry in broader, field-specific problem-spaces, but also help the committee understand how you will contribute to its many programs, initiatives, & offerings! Always ask the following: "What would a successful first year look like for this position" #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithThis becomes most important at the point of campus visits. Start your talk w/ a brief introduction to who you are. Not only in terms of your research & scholarship, but in regards to what you value, your axiological commitments. For some, this is the only time they'll interface w/ you #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithI have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
- Need a little bright spot in your doomscrolling? Thanks to the team in the School of Teaching & Learning at @illinoisstateu.bsky.social for this story about our @edunowlab.bsky.social's ARCs grant! news.illinoisstate.edu/2026/01/educ...
- Are you seeking a postdoc position? Help make high school science more accessible to blind and low-vision students. Join Dr. Shaheen's lab at @illinoisstateu.bsky.social (also affiliated with @edunowlab.bsky.social --see above) as a Postdoctoral Scholar starting Fall 2026.
- Reposted by Anna SmithOur SIG is still accepting nominations for the Steve Witte Lifetime Achievement Award! Nominations are due Jan 23rd. 👇
- Reposted by Anna SmithGood morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
- Reposted by Anna SmithI've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵
- Reposted by Anna SmithSeeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2] redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
- Reposted by Anna SmithWe're hiring! Senior position in the learning sciences. "We seek a scholar whose research has focused on the development & application of learning technologies to achieve just & equitable educational learning opportunities, teaching practices, policies, & systems." careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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- Reposted by Anna Smith“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
- please stop with the ai images to put your head on some other body. i refuse to rip poorly photoshopped pics. they were lovely in their jaggedness. long live poorly photoshopped pics!
- almost nothing more satisfying than the end-of-semester closing-of-264-tabs ritual
- Reposted by Anna SmithIt's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
- truer words have never been spoken
- Reposted by Anna SmithMany 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
- Reposted by Anna Smith✈️ Heading to the Literacy Research Association annual conference? 💡 Here are LR:TMP co-editor, @anna-phd.bsky.social 5 Ideas for Turning LRA Presentations into LR:TMP Papers! 💻 Submission to LR:TMP are open to LRA presenters and are due February 6, 2026 at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lrtmp
- The editors set such a beautiful & vital vision for vol 8. Highly recommend checking out the whole handbook! Such an honor to be invited back for Theories, Models, & Practices of #Literacies, Vol 8.
- Reposted by Anna SmithI think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
- Can someone point me to the official list of degrees no longer deemed professional? I am only seeing news reports and social media posts and want to see the full list. Thanks!
- Reposted by Anna SmithA3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithJoin us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!
- Reposted by Anna SmithA1 so many favorites! This semester I taught a critical issues PhD course and I got to fangirl by reading some pf my favorite scholars @deroomat.bsky.social @karismjones.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social @joshcoleman.bsky.social @scottstorm.bsky.social @amystorn.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Anna Smiththey are dismantling the department of education, full stop www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
- Final call! We have to manually send out the invite, so sign up sooner than later! We'll do one last send out tomorrow afternoon.
- Our final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research "Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
- Reposted by Anna Smith📢 Publication alert! 🗒️The Integrative Research Review titled “Good Trouble, Necessary Narratives: The 2024 LRA Integrative Research Review Panel” is now live!
- Reposted by Anna Smith📢 Publication alert! 🗒️Dr. Alfred Tatum’s Presidential Address “Troubling the Dark: Un(bounded) Black Male Literacy Development” is now live! 1/3
- Reposted by Anna SmithA nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1
- Reposted by Anna Smith💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
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- Don’t miss our final speaker this fall!
- Our final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research "Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
- Reposted by Anna SmithOur final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research "Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
- Know a future doc student? Please share! Come study & do important work with my awesome colleague, Dr. Natalie Shaheen!
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- Final call for sign-ups!
- Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
- Reposted by Anna SmithWe've got a book club coming up on Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET! Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social Register on our events page! www.civicsoftechnology.org/events www.wiley.com/en-us/Digita...
- Okay, who put me on a list or starter pack? 60+ new followers in the last hour… 🤦♀️ Hope y’all enjoy, I guess!
- It’s become ridiculous. Can someone remind me the name of the site where you can see what lists you’re on?
- Super happy to see the @lrtmp.bsky.social Volume 74 go live online right now. Let's go! Check out the editors' volume introduction below and share today! #literacies
- 📢 Publication Alert! Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr... 1/4
- Reposted by Anna Smith📢 Publication Alert! Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr... 1/4
- Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
- Reposted by Anna Smith“Imposing an age limit ‘reflects a classic move in the tech industry’s playbook: move fast, launch a product globally, break minds, and then make minimal product changes after harming scores of young people.’”
- Reposted by Anna SmithBeyond grateful for the opportunity to reconnect (and learn Bluesky). Thanks to all who attended and I can't wait for futrue collaborations. #literacies
- So much gratitude to the GSB Homecoming Planning Committee for inviting us back to guest host tonight. Let us know how else we can support the efforts chatted about tonight. As you could see, there’s lots of love for #literacies chat! We’re here to support the team!
- Reposted by Anna Smithvery happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
- Reposted by Anna SmithYeah this is awful and scary.
- New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
- Reposted by Anna SmithA6: I agree! I imagine classrooms where every learner’s language, identity, and creative expression are valued as part of meaning-making. Our task is to enact that future now through scholarship, pedagogy, and community that foreground connection over compliance. #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithA4: For those of us who can travel & continue participating in in-person conferences, let’s host #literacies happy hours & hangs! I know I’m excited for #LRA25, but I am even more ecstatic for #WRAB2026! Would love to widen the circumference of impact by fostering more international connections.
- Reposted by Anna SmithI think this is a sentiment shared by many! So much so that @carolinebr.bsky.social invited @deewellington1.bsky.social and I to write a whole paper about all the connections and opportunities hosting #literacies chats provided for us. eric.ed.gov?id=EJ1448943
- #literacies chat homecoming attendees, one more thing before you go: Check out this #literacies Starter Pack and let me know if you aren’t on there and want to be! (And feel free to find more connections while you’re in there.) bsky.app/profile/anna...
- About 15 years ago we started the #literacies chat over on the bird app. It provided so many meaningful conversations & connections over the years. This includes some of those people & others in the field. Let me know who else I can add (and follow!) as we work to rebuild here! go.bsky.app/HZLhPrat://did:plc:hg6bc7adtzf6pfw2zw3hdcj7/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laq6ukp5z22o
- Whew, still thinking about the #literacies chat homecoming. What a joy to reconnect! And wow, @esp-phd.bsky.social, we had no idea in 2012 what our little chat idea would become, did we? Thank you for everyone who joined us through the years. Okay, cue the tears again…
- I love this idea. #literacies chat that moves into making collective responses. Ties to @rabani.bsky.social idea too!
- Is the #literacies chat hour over? It went by so fast! Thank you to everyone who came out to #literacies Homecoming. Expect my posts to keep coming as I revisit what I missed. And let's keep collaborating & building collective responses to the now that move us toward the futures envisioned tonight!
- Reposted by Anna SmithExactly. I have felt less alone by engaging with my fellow #literacies community. This has to be a collective response. I nominate @wargojon.bsky.social as host!
- I love hearing about connections and extensions from #literacies chat I didn't know about!
- @deroomat.bsky.social we were friends anyway but I feel like our #literacies twitter chats spurred the Early Career Cohort we co-lead with NCTEAR. Strengthened our friendship and sparked the idea for how we wanted to serve the community.
- Reposted by Anna SmithYes! Love this! Or, what #literacies questions have been living rent free in your head? 😂🤣
- Reposted by Anna SmithA6: Looking toward futures that (continue to) disrupt traditional singular ways of thinking about “literacy” in classrooms, paving the way for the multitude of more equitable #literacies learning designs we might have instead
- Reposted by Anna SmithHoping to continue to build community while co-constructing knowledge. #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithA6: Envisioning #literacies! "Relational witnessing" as pedagogy: the attunement to a child's meaning-making; methodologies that can bring the child's process, embodied labors, and materiality into the same frame... how we go back to the children.
- Reposted by Anna SmithNights like these it's worth staying up late to remember that #WeAreInThisTogether <3 #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithEspecially right now. I am finding it particularly challenging to navigate as a scholar, teacher, and university employee. How can we continue this critical work in #literacies when words and voices that matter are being stripped away.
- Reposted by Anna SmithA6. Subversive, transgressive, fugitive, and joyful world-building #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithA6: a future that continues to embrace the role of #literacies in bringing hope and connection—-to thwart the powers that be which seek fear and isolation and apathy
- Love this! Have you seen the public scholarship initiative our @edunowlab.bsky.social launched with @lrtmp.bsky.social? We have Vol 74 about to start rolling out. So here for public scholarship making with #literacies folks!!
- I have been thinking about this a lot recently— wondering if folks would be interested in collaborating on #literacies public scholarship. Building things together?
- Reposted by Anna SmithI have been thinking about this a lot recently— wondering if folks would be interested in collaborating on #literacies public scholarship. Building things together?
- Reposted by Anna SmithA5: Would love to see a #literacies chat that takes up (and returns us to) the topic of critical #literacies! How do we understand its communicative capacity to respond to this moment, its utility in naming injustice, and its promise in building more just social futures!
- Reposted by Anna SmithA6: I think a renewed vision of #globalliteracies will need to be part of the future(s) of our field. We have the human and technical tools to get there, so let's get to work! #literacies
- Reposted by Anna SmithFor sure! I missed most of the #literacies chat tonight and am catching up. A bunch of doctoral students from MSU were on them from 2015 ish on and I "met" so many scholars and learned about their work that way. Then I met them in person and it was easier to jump right in to conversations.
