Cassie Brownell (she/her)
@brownellcassie.bsky.social
2024 NAEd/Spencer Postdoc Fellow | Associate Prof @ U. of Toronto | Playing the role of researcher across 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦 through June 2025
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Karen! I just shared the #playrevolution special issue with the shout-out to #literacies that came from you and your collaborators ❤️❤️❤️
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October 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Karen! I just shared the #playrevolution special issue with the shout-out to #literacies that came from you and your collaborators ❤️❤️❤️
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And that's all for this first #popplaypod live chat! Thanks for joining team--super fun! And I you haven't yet listened, check out our playdate with @brownellcassie.bsky.social and let us know what you think.
The Life of a Showgirl and Being a Swiftie | Pop and Play | Episode 4
Welcome to Season 6 and our first “play date”! Listen along with Haeny and Nathan and guest and fellow Swiftie Dr. Cassie Brownell, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto to Life of a Showgi...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
And that's all for this first #popplaypod live chat! Thanks for joining team--super fun! And I you haven't yet listened, check out our playdate with @brownellcassie.bsky.social and let us know what you think.
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Let’s start easy for this Pop & Play live chat...
Q1: For this first one, introduce yourself. Also tell us your favorite song from Life of a Showgirl and give us your best hot take about the album? Don’t forget to add #popplaypod to your quote reply!
Q1: For this first one, introduce yourself. Also tell us your favorite song from Life of a Showgirl and give us your best hot take about the album? Don’t forget to add #popplaypod to your quote reply!
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Let’s start easy for this Pop & Play live chat...
Q1: For this first one, introduce yourself. Also tell us your favorite song from Life of a Showgirl and give us your best hot take about the album? Don’t forget to add #popplaypod to your quote reply!
Q1: For this first one, introduce yourself. Also tell us your favorite song from Life of a Showgirl and give us your best hot take about the album? Don’t forget to add #popplaypod to your quote reply!
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We're doing it! Our first Pop & Play bsky live chat starts now!
Follow along at #popplaypod or the feed below. Reply quote the questions and be sure to add #popplaypod to your response so others can easily find it. Here 😶 We 🫣 Goooo! 😱
Follow along at #popplaypod or the feed below. Reply quote the questions and be sure to add #popplaypod to your response so others can easily find it. Here 😶 We 🫣 Goooo! 😱
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
We're doing it! Our first Pop & Play bsky live chat starts now!
Follow along at #popplaypod or the feed below. Reply quote the questions and be sure to add #popplaypod to your response so others can easily find it. Here 😶 We 🫣 Goooo! 😱
Follow along at #popplaypod or the feed below. Reply quote the questions and be sure to add #popplaypod to your response so others can easily find it. Here 😶 We 🫣 Goooo! 😱
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2 hours we’re doing this! Have dinner. Finish your homework. Listen to Life of a Show Girl 2.5 times! Be back here at 9:15 ET for some #popplaypod chattin’
Join us 11/13 at 9:15pm ET for a live chat to continue the conversation about play, music, and community. @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I will be joined by episode guest @brownellcassie.bsky.social and @lmv.bsky.social, but we want to talk to you too! Follow this feed and/or tag #popoff or #popplaypod
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
2 hours we’re doing this! Have dinner. Finish your homework. Listen to Life of a Show Girl 2.5 times! Be back here at 9:15 ET for some #popplaypod chattin’
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It’s spooky season! In today’s Pop & Play @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I talk about how the littles get enamored by scary culture even when they’re not entirely sure what it is.
It’s Halloween! Is Scary Play Okay?
Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · 10/30/2025 · 21m
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October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s spooky season! In today’s Pop & Play @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I talk about how the littles get enamored by scary culture even when they’re not entirely sure what it is.
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We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!
October 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!
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In Season 6 we’re introducing, “play dates!” where @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I share a play experience and invite you to play along. Our first play date is listening to the new Taylor Swift album with @brownellcassie.bsky.social! #LifeofaShowgirl drops tomorrow. Listen and join us for a play date!
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In Season 6 we’re introducing, “play dates!” where @haenyyoon.bsky.social and I share a play experience and invite you to play along. Our first play date is listening to the new Taylor Swift album with @brownellcassie.bsky.social! #LifeofaShowgirl drops tomorrow. Listen and join us for a play date!
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The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE
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Here’s two and a half minutes of a CBS segment showing google’s new AI multiple choice and fake podcast machine, 10s of me saying maybe we should instead encourage children to value their own voice and creativity, and 5s of me awkwardly writing on a whiteboard.
Back-to-school: A parent's guide to AI
As kids head back to the classroom, "CBS Mornings" is showing what parents should know about artificial intelligence when it comes to your kids' education. CBS News' Jo Ling Kent gives guidance.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Here’s two and a half minutes of a CBS segment showing google’s new AI multiple choice and fake podcast machine, 10s of me saying maybe we should instead encourage children to value their own voice and creativity, and 5s of me awkwardly writing on a whiteboard.
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The ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers is available on the ISLS website now! A dedicated annual meeting website is coming soon.
www.isls.org/news/isls-20...
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ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers
June 15-19, 2026 | Irvine, California, USA Dear Learning Sciences Community, The 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting once again brings together the Learning Sciences community as a whole by combining two…
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July 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers is available on the ISLS website now! A dedicated annual meeting website is coming soon.
www.isls.org/news/isls-20...
www.isls.org/news/isls-20...
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As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦
July 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦
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My latest piece, “From 'Todo sobre Mí' to 'All about We': Reading Children’s Visual Texts as Sights and Scenes of Critical Data Literacies,” just dropped! Check it, and a host of other awesome articles in the January 2025 issue of Language Arts! #literacies publicationsncte.org/content/jour...
July 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My latest piece, “From 'Todo sobre Mí' to 'All about We': Reading Children’s Visual Texts as Sights and Scenes of Critical Data Literacies,” just dropped! Check it, and a host of other awesome articles in the January 2025 issue of Language Arts! #literacies publicationsncte.org/content/jour...
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Kyle P. Smith is a Rackham doctoral candidate who explores the pedagogical possibilities of LGBTQ+ young adult literature to talk across differences in the classroom. 🏳️🌈
Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj
#WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool
Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj
#WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool
June 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Kyle P. Smith is a Rackham doctoral candidate who explores the pedagogical possibilities of LGBTQ+ young adult literature to talk across differences in the classroom. 🏳️🌈
Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj
#WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool
Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj
#WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool
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Thanks, @umichgradschool.bsky.social for showcasing me and my work! It was an honor to discuss how my own past, both as a teacher and a student, led to my passions as a researcher. Glad to call @umich.edu and the #MarsalFamilySchoolOfEducation my home!
Kyle P. Smith is a Rackham doctoral candidate who explores the pedagogical possibilities of LGBTQ+ young adult literature to talk across differences in the classroom. 🏳️🌈
Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj
#WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool
Learn more about Smith's research in our latest story for Discover Rackham: myumi.ch/QwVyj
#WeAreRackham #UMich #GradSchool
June 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Thanks, @umichgradschool.bsky.social for showcasing me and my work! It was an honor to discuss how my own past, both as a teacher and a student, led to my passions as a researcher. Glad to call @umich.edu and the #MarsalFamilySchoolOfEducation my home!
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On this point, Haeny, @lmv.bsky.social, and I recorded a short Pop & Play episode recently on the GOP & DOGE cuts to science funding. We hope you'll share with friends, family, neighbors, or whoever might not understand why cutting scientific research matters!
June 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
On this point, Haeny, @lmv.bsky.social, and I recorded a short Pop & Play episode recently on the GOP & DOGE cuts to science funding. We hope you'll share with friends, family, neighbors, or whoever might not understand why cutting scientific research matters!
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Forgive one last bit of self promotion, but I've seen a lot of great work on play at #ISLS2025. If you haven't check out Pop & Play, take a listen. Might I recommend this episode where we interview Andrew Davenport, creator of the Teletubbies! bsky.app/profile/snow...
After you finish your tubby toast and morning bowl of tubby custard check out Pop & Play where we talk to the great Andy Davenport about his most famous creation, the Teletubbies, as well as his decades of work creating hit children’s media! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Centering Play in Children’s Media with Teletubbies Co-creator Andy Davenport
Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · 04/22/2025 · 41m
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June 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Forgive one last bit of self promotion, but I've seen a lot of great work on play at #ISLS2025. If you haven't check out Pop & Play, take a listen. Might I recommend this episode where we interview Andrew Davenport, creator of the Teletubbies! bsky.app/profile/snow...
Before heading to Helsinki for #ISLS25, I’m spending a few days w/ global youth, politicians, activists, organizers, NGO leaders, lawyers, judges, & practitioners to discuss moving from talk to action in meaningfully implementing the UNCRC (Art. 12) in ways that don’t deprive children of liberty
June 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Before heading to Helsinki for #ISLS25, I’m spending a few days w/ global youth, politicians, activists, organizers, NGO leaders, lawyers, judges, & practitioners to discuss moving from talk to action in meaningfully implementing the UNCRC (Art. 12) in ways that don’t deprive children of liberty
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🧵STEM ED Research:
I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF.
The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/
I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF.
The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/
June 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🧵STEM ED Research:
I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF.
The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/
I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF.
The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/
Happiest of birthdays to the cutest Garbage fan I know, @tylerwmartin.bsky.social ! 🥳🥳🥳
May 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Happiest of birthdays to the cutest Garbage fan I know, @tylerwmartin.bsky.social ! 🥳🥳🥳
Two more days of fieldwork, but how many more days after I say goodbye until y’all think this stress-related eye twitch that started in early April might actually subside?? #TalesFromTheField
a cartoon character is wearing a pink hat and making a funny face
ALT: a cartoon character is wearing a pink hat and making a funny face
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May 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Two more days of fieldwork, but how many more days after I say goodbye until y’all think this stress-related eye twitch that started in early April might actually subside?? #TalesFromTheField
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Though it is sad that the 5th season of Pop & Play has come to a close, now is a great time to go back and listen to episodes you missed. Teletubbies, Sesame Street, Story Pirates, Henry Jenkins... we had some bangers! Check them out here: tc.edu/popandplay
Pop and Play | Media | Digital Futures Institute (DFI) | Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College Digital Futures Institute (DFI) is an interdisciplinary hub for digital innovation, with a mission to advance more just social futures that is driven by research, pedagogy, and public engagement.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Though it is sad that the 5th season of Pop & Play has come to a close, now is a great time to go back and listen to episodes you missed. Teletubbies, Sesame Street, Story Pirates, Henry Jenkins... we had some bangers! Check them out here: tc.edu/popandplay