Teaching After the Feed
A collection of research-driven classroom tools built to work with — and against — the logic of the feed. Each tool is grounded in an action research project comparing two instructional models.
Teaching with the feed
Teacher-curated adjacency, pattern recognition before explanation, strong signals of what comes next. Borrows the feed's structure without handing control to a platform.
Teaching against the feed
Archive-first structure, slow revisiting, explicit pathways, memory- oriented learning. Reduces novelty in favour of return, reuse, and accumulation.
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Structured visual analysis before interpretation
A step-by-step tool that guides students through sustained looking before they reach for meaning. Prompts slow the process down: what repeats, what shifts, what is ambiguous. Students build an evidence base before they make any claims.
Place images in relation. Find what connects them.
A Warburg-inspired tool for arranging images spatially and discovering the patterns that emerge from adjacency. Students juxtapose works, articulate connections, and build arguments before they are given explanations. The board becomes a visible record of their thinking.
A class-built, revisitable image bank
A shared archive that the class builds and returns to across a unit or course. Students add images, annotate connections, and revisit earlier entries as their thinking develops. The archive grows with the class and becomes a cumulative reference.
Watch an image lose data every time it is saved
A demonstration tool that makes lossy compression visible. Each time a JPEG is re-saved, it sheds information. This tool runs that process in sequence so students can watch image quality degrade — a provocation about what platforms do to images as they travel.