Heather Perkinson
@hkperkinson.bsky.social
Public HS librarian, past president of the Maine Association of School Libraries, born & raised in DC. Books, dogs, teaching. #TLSky #EduSky hkperkinson.blogspot.com
This matters! Students getting degrees in these professions will not be able to get fair federal funding
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Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin
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November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This matters! Students getting degrees in these professions will not be able to get fair federal funding
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Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin
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November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin
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The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
Reposted by Heather Perkinson
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
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Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
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Are your students bored of exit tickets? 🎟️ Here are 21 creative ways you can see what they’re thinking—right now!
#UDL #assessment #EduSky
#UDL #assessment #EduSky
Fun Formative Assessment Activities Inspired by UDL
Varying the format of comprehension checks guides students to demonstrate learning and provides teachers feedback on progress.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Are your students bored of exit tickets? 🎟️ Here are 21 creative ways you can see what they’re thinking—right now!
#UDL #assessment #EduSky
#UDL #assessment #EduSky
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"All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video"
"...According to OpenAI’s own model card for Sora, if someone prompts hard enough, an offensive video can slip through the cracks."
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#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
"...According to OpenAI’s own model card for Sora, if someone prompts hard enough, an offensive video can slip through the cracks."
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#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video
It's fun to mess around with cutting-edge AI. Here's why you still maybe shouldn't.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video"
"...According to OpenAI’s own model card for Sora, if someone prompts hard enough, an offensive video can slip through the cracks."
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#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
"...According to OpenAI’s own model card for Sora, if someone prompts hard enough, an offensive video can slip through the cracks."
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#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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Hello Friends!
Any ideas for Topics for our next chat #TLSkyChat? We have not asked before and want to be responsive to community. Reply or submit to our Answer Garden: answergarden.ch/5086279 (No account needed)
#TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Edtech #Schoollibrarians #Schoollibrarian #Booksky
Any ideas for Topics for our next chat #TLSkyChat? We have not asked before and want to be responsive to community. Reply or submit to our Answer Garden: answergarden.ch/5086279 (No account needed)
#TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Edtech #Schoollibrarians #Schoollibrarian #Booksky
AnswerGarden » What topic should we do next?
AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic brainstorm tool for online brainstorming, real time audience participation and classroom feedback.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hello Friends!
Any ideas for Topics for our next chat #TLSkyChat? We have not asked before and want to be responsive to community. Reply or submit to our Answer Garden: answergarden.ch/5086279 (No account needed)
#TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Edtech #Schoollibrarians #Schoollibrarian #Booksky
Any ideas for Topics for our next chat #TLSkyChat? We have not asked before and want to be responsive to community. Reply or submit to our Answer Garden: answergarden.ch/5086279 (No account needed)
#TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Edtech #Schoollibrarians #Schoollibrarian #Booksky
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Some good news: Massachusetts Senate is working on a bill to prevent #bookbans! #TLSky #EduSky, pls make time to read the 11/21/25 @ifrt-ala.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News: #censorship, #1stAmendment /civil rights, academic freedom/student speech, legislation. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
Intellectual Freedom News 11/21/2025
ALA actively advocates and educates in defense of intellectual freedom—the rights of library users to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Intellectual freedo...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Some good news: Massachusetts Senate is working on a bill to prevent #bookbans! #TLSky #EduSky, pls make time to read the 11/21/25 @ifrt-ala.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News: #censorship, #1stAmendment /civil rights, academic freedom/student speech, legislation. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
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"The consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG tested a selection of AI toys & found that they are capable of doing things like having sexually explicit conversations & offering advice on where a child can find matches or knives."
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#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Do Not, Under Any Circumstance, Buy Your Kid an AI Toy for Christmas
Somehow worse than screens.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG tested a selection of AI toys & found that they are capable of doing things like having sexually explicit conversations & offering advice on where a child can find matches or knives."
gizmodo.com/do-not-under...
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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In the hope that something beautiful will grow out of the mud and pain of 2025, everyone please say hi to Lotus.
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
In the hope that something beautiful will grow out of the mud and pain of 2025, everyone please say hi to Lotus.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
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The new loan rules exclude education degrees from “professional” status. That affects teachers and makes it even harder to recruit certified school librarians. Details here:
#HigherEd #SchoolLibraries
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#HigherEd #SchoolLibraries
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Special Edition: The Quiet Reclassification That Leaves Educators Behind
Why the new definition of “professional degree” matters more than people realize
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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The new loan rules exclude education degrees from “professional” status. That affects teachers and makes it even harder to recruit certified school librarians. Details here:
#HigherEd #SchoolLibraries
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#HigherEd #SchoolLibraries
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The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...
Book award season is in full swing!
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Here are the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards
Author Rabih Alameddine won for his novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). Other winners include a book for young people about orphans on the run in Iran during World War II.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Book award season is in full swing!
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This short story of the evolution of a sort of book club for reading difficult books reads as an ode to learning
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The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
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November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This short story of the evolution of a sort of book club for reading difficult books reads as an ode to learning
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Just for fun, test yourself and your students on these Thanksgiving trivia facts
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76 Fun Thanksgiving Trivia Questions To Test Your Holiday IQ
Test your knowledge about football, pie, turkey, and more.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Just for fun, test yourself and your students on these Thanksgiving trivia facts
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Local school political conflicts in Maine reflect national issues and strategies
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#EduSky #TLSky
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Parents’ rights groups, backed by conservative funders, bring the fight to Maine school boards
The Gardiner-area school board is one of many across the state being confronted with organized, sometimes disruptive, efforts to remake education.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Local school political conflicts in Maine reflect national issues and strategies
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#EduSky #TLSky
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#EduSky #TLSky
"Geography teaches us not just where things are, but why they are there — and what could be otherwise" explains a professor who advocates for more teaching of geography at all levels
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What If Geography Is the Curriculum We Need for the Future? - EdSurge News
A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.”He ...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Geography teaches us not just where things are, but why they are there — and what could be otherwise" explains a professor who advocates for more teaching of geography at all levels
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Some fun activities to try to take advantage of student enthusiasm for the "Six-Seven" trend. They might have the added bonus of making it uncool
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"Six-Seven" Mania: Five Fun Ways to Channel the Viral Trend in Your Classroom – TCEA TechNotes Blog
Take advantage of the "six-seven" chaos and boost engagement with these trendy, themed activities perfect for students in grades three-eight. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to s...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Some fun activities to try to take advantage of student enthusiasm for the "Six-Seven" trend. They might have the added bonus of making it uncool
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#EduSky
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Brain science clearly supports the use of retrieval practice in the classroom. This short post is full of simple ideas for helping students "consolidate learning"
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4 Consolidation Activities That Connect & Reinforce Learning
By completing quick daily activities that help consolidate what they're learning, Megan Kelly's students are building long-term memory and background knowledge.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Brain science clearly supports the use of retrieval practice in the classroom. This short post is full of simple ideas for helping students "consolidate learning"
www.middleweb.com/52836/classr...
#EduSky
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#EduSky
Student vaping is a widespread problem that is overwhelming schools, but there are questions around the use of detection technology
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#EduSky
Vaping is ‘Everywhere Now’ in Schools. Can Surveillance Tech Thwart it?
74 Investigation: Vape detector logs reveal an avalanche of alerts, suspensions dwarfing treatment services and younger kids being punished more.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Student vaping is a widespread problem that is overwhelming schools, but there are questions around the use of detection technology
www.the74million.org/article/vapi...
#EduSky
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#EduSky
Understanding how "confirmation bias" affects our ability to think critically is crucial to developing information and media literacy
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#EduSky #TLSky
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#EduSky #TLSky
How Confirmation Bias Hijacks Student Thinking — and What Educators Can Do About It | Getting Smart
Understand how confirmation bias education shapes our perceptions and influences the content we consume online.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Understanding how "confirmation bias" affects our ability to think critically is crucial to developing information and media literacy
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#EduSky #TLSky
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#EduSky #TLSky
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AI is now being used to “flag” school library books.
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The Most Dangerous AI Tool for Libraries Yet
How Class-Shelf Plus v3 quietly turns censorship into an automated workflow and why every librarian should be alarmed.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
AI is now being used to “flag” school library books.
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...