
Tess Bernhard
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Ph.D. candidate @PennGSE | 2024 NAEd/Spencer Diss Fellow | organizer @GETUPgrads | thinking/worrying about how edtech is reshaping classroom teaching
Philadelphia, PA
Joined July 2015
RT @dude_crooks: #PubDay for my first book, Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality, where I argue the push to ameliorat….
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Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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RT @Marc__Watkins: LA schools invested millions in an AI chatbot for students, overlooking the volatility of edtech startups reselling gene….
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Breaking the news that I've been selected as a 2024 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation fellow! The fellowship will support my project examining how teachers' work life and instructional practice are shaped by the data demands of edtech platforms. Read more here:
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🎉 Congratulations to the 2024 NAEd/Spencer Fellowship Recipients! 🎉. These fellowships recognize outstanding researchers in the field of education who demonstrate exceptional potential to advance the academic study of education. Learn more:
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RT @jacobin: Graduate student worker-organizer at UPenn: “Building a union changes the way that we relate to each other fundamentally, and….
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Earlier this month, graduate student workers at the University of Pennsylvania successfully voted to form a union in a landslide victory. Jacobin spoke with worker-organizers about the organizing...
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RT @GETUPgrads: WE WON! This week, over 2000 Penn grad workers cast ballots. After eligible votes were tallied, the final count was 1807 to….
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RT @bcmerchant: "AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources. by 2030, the world’s data centers ar….
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AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive...
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RT @ally_harp: .@CenDemTech's Kristin Woelfel said she's started to think of school's web filters as a “digital book ban." . “You can see w….
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The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKED
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RT @GETUPgrads: We are graduate student workers from over 100 departments and programs across Penn. On April 16 & 17, we vote YES to form a….
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@LMT_Journal @sskavanagh @lynseymathed above all, I'm thrilled to be able to put our teacher participants' voices in print, who made it clear to us that they felt silenced by the power platform data was given in instructional decision-making. See the eponymous quote excerpted below.
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Thrilled to have this piece out in @LMT_Journal, in which @sskavanagh, @lynseymathed and I describe the ways elementary teachers found their math instruction to be contorted and surveilled through platform data when returning to in-person instruction
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RT @GETUPgrads: We're having an election! On April 16 & 17, graduate student workers have the opportunity to tell that Penn administration….
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stepping out of the shadows to say I am out here sharing ideas at NARST and would love others to engage w/ me—At 4:45 I'm presenting a lit review that uncovers how infrequently we have researched students' interactions with one another in computer-mediated sci classrooms #narst24
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RT @linakhanFTC: 1. Kids must be able to play & learn online without being endlessly tracked by companies looking to hoard and monetize the….
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RT @UnionElections: BREAKING: 4,500 graduate workers at the University of Pennsylvania are forming a union as @GETUPgrads and are joining @….
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RT @techwontsaveus: “Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year,….
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Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.
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thrilled to see AI skepticism taken up in a sci-ed journal! beautifully written, will be thinking about this quote for a long time: "unexpected and unique ideas may be the most useful for deepening student thinking. recognizing these ideas is crucial to promoting equity".
ICYMI: New comment article: Can we and should we use artificial intelligence for formative assessment in science? . Check it here to read more
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RT @GETUPgrads: GETUP-UAW organizers met today with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su as part of a group of Philadelphia higher ed and hos….
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