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Day 168a (of 2025/26) Opting Out by Maia Kobabe and Swati “Lucky” Srikumar Maia’s ‘less likely to be challenged book of the year’ is Opting Out – a book that does a lot of important shares very well… and has quickly climbed my personal ‘best reads of 2026 list’. What it takes on: Menstruation and…

Day 167 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories you may have missed to end May… pew pew games at school?; Endrõs problem solved; climate… what, me worry? School violence is a key trigger of anxiety (not that you’d see it on the “research” used in “the Anxious Generation”…) and games like this ‘common’ one (even a…

Day 166 (of 2025/26) first little “test” of AI & learning this #tEChursdAI Sigh. A happy sigh, but still a sigh. I ran a small test around AI and learning this week, using an “AI as primary” collaboration model, and I’m left sitting with mixed feelings about the results. The learner outcome was… not good.…

Day 165 (of 2025/26) the start of the “last day/week of school” messages… still one more month to make count! #edresearch When I start reading “end of school year” messages on education social media at the end of May, it raises some wonders. A little jealousy some years (vivid had me counting down the days…

Day 164 (of 2025/26) on “it belongs in a museum” thinking… I loved the line in Indiana Jones (Last Crusade) when he talks about the Cross of Coronado which had been claimed by a ‘collector of antiquities’ by saying “It belongs in a museum”…  As a Classical Studies minor, it has always been a challenging…

Day 163 (of 2025/26) #TowelDay The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Towel Day, celebrated every May 25, the gloriously absurd tribute to Douglas Adams. People have asked about the towel on my shoulder as well as the bowtie I customized for today…  What it is: Towel Day was first observed in 2001, two weeks after…

Day 162 (of 2025/26) Our School-Based Comic Con: Too-Early Reflections Now is probably not the time to ask what I thought. A few days ago, when I drafted this title, I assumed I would be stuck reflecting on everything that did not go according to plan. That is often the way with events like this.…

Day 161 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI and digital comics I did some promos for our school comic con presenters this year. My kids were aghast that I tried working with my AI collaborator on them to give them a comic book look. They got mad. I took the extra time to render a mockup through Pages.…

Day 160 (of 2025/26) The missing literacy unit: video games The publishing industry is worth around $200 billion globally.Television and streaming? Somewhere north of $300 billion.Movies: roughly $150 billion.Music: $35 billion.Sports media: $100 billion.Social media platforms and creator ecosystems: over $200 billion. All of these receive at least some attention in traditional Language Arts classrooms.…

Day 159 (of 2025/26) On Comic Con… school based comic con… One of my goals has been to have more of our diverse learning community ‘see themselves’ through our comic con – albeit … eventually… the first iterations had me ‘pull my friendship card’ and ask Toby Price (Tytus the Monkey) to be our first…