Tess Bernhard

Ph.D. candidate @PennGSE | 2024 NAEd/Spencer Diss Fellow | organizer @GETUPgrads | thinking/worrying about how edtech is reshaping classroom teaching

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

I've long been enjoying reading and lurking on bluesky, and am going to transition to sharing my research and thinking there instead of here. I'm https://t.co/4zvnVfzgZg over there. I hope more educators and ed researchers consider making the same move :)

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

I've long been enjoying reading and lurking on bluesky, and am going to transition to sharing my research and thinking there instead of here. I'm https://t.co/4zvnVfzgZg over there. I hope more educators and ed researchers consider making the same move :)

[Roderic N. Crooks (he/him) @dude_crooks]

#PubDay for my first book, Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality, where I argue the push to ameliorate racial inequality via data-intensive #edtech extracts resources from working-class communities of color here in California. https://t.co/f5iJTJiCsY

[Marc Watkins @Marc__Watkins]

LA schools invested millions in an AI chatbot for students, overlooking the volatility of edtech startups reselling generative AI. Now the company's collapse raises questions about giving children access to chatbots in edu. NYT👇 Alt text.

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

@cbebby Thank you, Caroline!!

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

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: https://t.co/FoztLVmkMk

[NAEd @NAEduc]

🎉 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: https://t.co/EKDHDAFOkD

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

@sskavanagh @PennGSE @NAEduc @Spencer_Fdn I am lucky to have such a wonderful thought partner as an advisor!! wouldn't have accomplished this with you!

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

@AllieThrall thanks, Allie!! I likewise hope to catch up on where your work is headed soon :)

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

@Lightning__Jay thanks, Lightning! def gonna be a minute til this thing cooks

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Graduate student worker-organizer at UPenn: “Building a union changes the way that we relate to each other fundamentally, and building collective power broadens the horizon for what's possible.” https://t.co/ccxDxypX3k

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

WE WON! This week, over 2000 Penn grad workers cast ballots. After eligible votes were tallied, the final count was 1807 to 97. It's official. The majority of eligible voters turned out to the polls. Penn graduate workers have resoundingly declared: WE WANT A UNION AT PENN!

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

"AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources... by 2030, the world’s data centers are on course to use more electricity than India"

https://t.co/a1eNH5Qa24

[Allegra Harpootlian @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 whether a book is on a shelf,” she said. By contrast, decisions about which websites or categories to block happen under the radar.
https://t.co/9PCQIXfTVL

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

We are graduate student workers from over 100 departments and programs across Penn. On April 16 & 17, we vote YES to form a union in order to negotiate improvements to our working conditions and have a stronger voice for graduate workers at Penn. Join us! https://t.co/NM463hFbhX

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

@charleswlogan thank you!! likewise hoping to learn from your work at AERA—thurs AM critical platform symposium looks great

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

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 https://t.co/SnrXZtomff

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

@sheasmith so excited to hear you're also tackling these issues—would love to chat sometime to compare notes on what we're seeing in our diss projects :)

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

collecting this data and witnessing these teachers' experiences radically shifted what I thought I was interested in studying, and started me on an obsessive path of documenting how platforms are shaping teaching in my dissertation. more to come :)

[Tess Bernhard @tessbern]

@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.

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

We're having an election! On April 16 & 17, graduate student workers have the opportunity to tell that Penn administration that we want a say in our working conditions. Pledge to vote YES today: https://t.co/6eGDJAlZ31 https://t.co/rXJqMLG4mm