Just logged into the #aera23 platform to figure out how to access sessions for tomorrow's virtual component. I discovered I missed out on networking chats from people reaching out. What a bummer--was I supposed to get some sort of notification in the app or email?
I'm proud to share that I was awarded the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies! I'm humbled to be recognized among all these amazing awardees. #AERA23 https://sites.google.com/site/janhawkinsaward/home
Jan Hawkins Award

This site honors the memory of Jan Hawkins, (1952-1999) who was a developmental psychologist with a cognitive, cultural, and social-interactionist orientation, and was well known for her respectful, humanistic conceptions of appropriate roles for using technology in K-12 learning environments. She

Coffee is magic #AERA23
#aera23 I'll be presenting on concepts from my forthcoming book, Critical Network Literacies on Sunday at 9:50am - come on by if you are at the conference!
Found the place to recharge between #aera23 sessions: skywalk between towers in the Hyatt. Ample seating, outlets, and sunlight!
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Also, when can we move beyond "representation" in teachers in the USA, and consider if and how they are prepared and teach? And consider if they are reproducing oppression or disrupting it?

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Testing in education and teacher prep is hugely problematic. Gatekeeping and exclusion are products of the system.
Money helps, reducing financial barriers, but does not do enough to dismantle the system.
Deprofessionalization of teacher preparation is a central issue imo.
Who gets to decide if students are ready for teacher preparation or to teach? Who should?

#AERA23 is going well so far! So lovey to see people again after such a long break. And really great conversations and presentations.
Running a booth for Quirkos at #AERA23 - down in the basement but come say hi, fellow Tooters!
@gravesle @ZingerLearns @edutooter If you can find the steam of Cornell West’s talk this evening, absolutely definitely watch it!! Amazing speaker. So much inspiration. Just one: If you are seduced by “profession”, you have forgotten *vocation*. #AERA23