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- Sinykin, D., Winant, J., LeBlanc, R.J., & Nichols, T.P. (in press). Close reading is an argument. English Journal.
- LeBlanc, R.J., & Nichols, T.P. (2026). The specter of high school English. Post45.
- Nichols, T.P., LeBlanc, R.J., & Thrall, A. (2026). Parametrizing ‘the digital’: Education research methods for platform ecologies. Learning, Media, & Technology.
- Nichols, T.P., Rogers, R.M., & Chung, K. (2026). Designing for reciprocity: Participatory online professional learning after platformization. Learning, Media, and Technology.
- Logan, C., Nichols, T.P., & Garcia, A. (2025). Teach like a Luddite. Phi Delta Kappan.
- Nichols, T.P., Logan, C., & Garcia, A. (2025). Generative AI and the (re)turn to Luddism. Learning, Media, and Technology.
- Bacalja, A., Nichols, T.P., Robinson, B., Bhatt, I., Zomer, C., Nash, B., … Schnaider, K. (2024). Postdigital videogames literacies: Thinking with, through, and beyond James Gee's learning principles. Postdigital Science and Education.
- Kerssens, N., Nichols, T.P., & Pangrazio, L. (2024). The Googlization(s) of education: Mapping platform intermediaries in public schools across three countries. Learning, Media, & Technology.
- Lentz, A., Stornaiuolo, A., Pak, K., Flores, N., Desimone, L., Nichols, T.P., Polikoff, M., & Porter, A. (2024). Changes that stick: Sustainable change in schools and classrooms is possible. Phi Delta Kappan.
- Nichols, T.P., & Dixon-Román, E. (2024). Platform governance and education policy: Power and politics in emerging edtech ecologies. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.(2)
- Nichols, T.P., Thrall, A., Quiros, J., & Dixon-Román, E. (2024). Speculative capture: Literacy after platformization. Reading Research Quarterly.(2), 211–218.
- Robinson, B., Thrall, A., & Nichols, T.P. (2024). Critical perspectives on digital platforms in ELA teacher education. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (English).
- Stornaiuolo, A., Higgs, J., Nichols, T.P., LeBlanc, R.J., & de Roock, R. (2024). The platformization of writing instruction: Educational equity in new edtech ecologies. Review of Research in Education.
- Thrall, A., Nichols, T.P., & Magill, K. (2024). Speculative frictions: Writing civic futures after AI. English Teaching: Practice & Critique.
- Krutka, D., Pleasants, J., & Nichols, T.P. (2023). Talking the technology talk. Phi Delta Kappan.
- Nichols, T.P., Maton, R., & Simon, E. (2023). Opposing innovations: Imaginaries of reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1970–1977. History of Education Quarterly.
- Pleasants, J., Krutka, D., & Nichols, T.P. (2023). What relationship do we want with technology?: Toward technoskepticism in schools. Harvard Educational Review.
- Smith, J., & Nichols, T.P. (2023). ‘Book choice’ and the affective economy of literacy. Journal of Literacy Research.
- Nichols, T.P., & Garcia, A. (2022). Platform studies in education. Harvard Educational Review.
- Nichols, T.P., & Monea, A. (2022). De-escalating dataveillance in schools. Phi Delta Kappan.
- Pangrazio, L., Stornaiuolo, A., Nichols, T.P., Garcia, A., & Philip, T. (2022). Datafication meets platformization: Materializing data processes in teaching and learning. Harvard Educational Review.
- Ferguson, D., & Nichols, T.P. (2021). School sites and the haunting of history: Unmasking the past in field-based research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
- Garcia, A., & Nichols, T.P. (2021). Digital platforms aren’t mere tools — they’re complex environments. Phi Delta Kappan.
- Nichols, T.P. (2021). Innovating from the ground up. Educational Leadership.
- Nichols, T.P., & Coleman, J.J. (2021). Feeling worlds: Affective imaginaries and the making of “democratic” literacy classrooms. Reading Research Quarterly.
- Nichols, T.P., & LeBlanc, R.J. (2021). Media education and the limits of ‘literacy’: Ecological orientations to performative platforms. Curriculum Inquiry.
- Nichols, T.P., Edgerton, A.K., & Desimone, L. (2021). “Smart power” in standards implementation after No Child Left Behind. American Journal of Education.
- Nichols, T.P., LeBlanc, R.J., & Slomp, D. (2021). Writing machines: Formative assessment in the age of Big Data. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.
- Dixon-Román, E., Nichols, T.P., & Nyame-Mensah, A. (2020). The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies. Learning, Media, and Technology.
- Maton, R., & Nichols, T.P. (2020). Mobilizing public alternative schools for post-neoliberal futures: Legacies of critical hope in Philadelphia and Toronto. Policy Futures in Education.
- Nichols, T.P. (2020). Innovation from below: Infrastructure, design, and equity in literacy classroom makerspaces. Research in the Teaching of English.
- Nichols, T.P., & Johnston, K. (2020). Rethinking ‘availability’ in multimodal composing: Frictions in digital design. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.
- Nichols, T.P., & LeBlanc, R.J. (2020). Beyond apps: Digital literacy in a platform society. The Reading Teacher.
- Salisbury, K., & Nichols, T.P. (2020). School makerspaces: Beyond the hype. Phi Delta Kappan.
- Desimone, L., Stornaiuolo, A., Flores, N., Edgerton, A., Pak, K., Nichols, T.P., Plummer, E., & Porter, A. (2019). Successes and the challenges of the “new” college and career readiness standards: Seven implementation trends. Educational Researcher.
- Nichols, T.P., & Stornaiuolo, A. (2019). Assembling “digital literacies”: Contingent pasts, possible futures. Media and Communication.
- Nichols, T.P., McGeehan, C., & Reed III, S.A. (2019). Composing proximity: Teaching strategic distance to high school writers. English Journal.
- Stornaiuolo, A., & Nichols, T.P. (2019). Cosmopolitanism and education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.
- Stornaiuolo, A., & Nichols, T.P. (2018). Making publics: Mobilizing audiences in high school makerspaces. Teachers College Record.
- Stornaiuolo, A., Nichols, T.P., & Vasudevan, V. (2018). Building spaces for learning in schools: Mapping the emergence of a literacy makerspace. English Teaching: Practice and Critique.
- Nichols, T.P., & Campano, G. (2017). Post-humanism and literacy studies. Language Arts.
- Scott, J., & Nichols, T.P. (2017). Learning analytics as assemblage: Criticality and contingency in online learning. Research in Education.
- Nichols, T.P. (2013). Feedback in an age of efficiency. Educational Leadership.
- Nichols, T.P. (2012). From knowledge to wisdom: Critical evaluation in new literacy education. Voices from the Middle.
Book Chapters
- Nichols, T.P. (forthcoming). Data literacies. In M. Winn & L. Winn (Eds.), Bloomsbury handbook of social justice in education. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Nichols, T.P., & Robinson, B. (forthcoming). Literacy in the age of datafication. In L. Pangrazio, A. Acker, M. Currie, & N. Kerssens (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of critical data literacies. Oxford University Press.
- Nichols, T.P., Bryant, M., & Roach, K. (in press). Disciplinary literacies in platform ecologies. In B. Baker (Ed.), Research Handbook of Digital Literacies. Edward Elgar.
- Robinson, B., & Nichols, T.P. (in press). Layers, levels, scales: Theorizing platform-powered digital literacy automations. In J. Coiro, E. Forzani, M. Hagerman, C. Kiili, & J. Sparks (Eds.), International Handbook of Research in Digital Literacies. Routledge.
- Nichols, T.P. (2026). Beyond binaries: Gaming after “the digital.” In A. Bacalja, B. Robinson, & G. Dishon (Eds.), Gaming in a postdigital world: Towards new understandings of learning and life. Springer.
- Nichols, T.P., & Thrall, A. (2025). Platformed privatization: Data, technology, and the changing infrastructure of educational governance. In C. Fontdevila, H. Jabbar, A. Verger, & A. Zancajo (Eds.), Research handbook on education privatization and marketization. Edward Elgar.
- Robinson, B., Wright, W., & Nichols, T.P. (2025). Playing with(in) platforms: A sociomaterial perspective on literacy and video games. In M. Sailors, V. Watson, J. Hoffman, & D. Alvermann (Eds.), Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy (8th ed.). Routledge.
- Nichols, T.P., LeBlanc, R.J., & Garcia, A. (2023). After digital literacies: Media pedagogy for platform ecologies. In B. Williamson, J. Komljenovic, & K. Gulson (Eds.), 2024 World Yearbook of Education: Digitalization of education in the era of algorithms, automation, and artificial intelligence (pp. 212–226). Routledge.
- Nichols, T.P., Smith, A., Stornaiuolo, A., & Bulfin, S. (2021). Critical literacy, digital platforms, and datafication. In J.Z. Pandya, R. Mora, J. Alford, N.A. Golden, & R. de Roock (Eds.), International Handbook of Critical Literacy. Routledge.
- Campano, G., Nichols, T.P., & Player, G. (2020). Multimodal critical inquiry: Nurturing decolonial imaginaries. In E. Moje, P. Afflerbach, P. Enciso, & N.K. Lesaux (Eds.), Handbook of reading research, Vol. V (pp. 137–152). Routledge.
- Stornaiuolo, A., & Nichols, T.P. (2020). Makerspaces in K–12 schools: Six key tensions. In J. Rowsell, C. McLean, & J. Marsh (Eds.), Making futures: Maker literacies and maker identities in the digital age. Routledge.
- Nichols, T.P., & Lui, D. (2019). Learning by doing: The tenuous alliance of the Maker Movement and education reform. In J. Huntsinger & A. Schrock (Eds.), Making our world: The hacker and maker movements in context. Peter Lang.
- Nichols, T.P., & O’Sullivan, B. (2019). Classroom cosmopolitics: Worldbuilding for mutual flourishing. In K. Lenters & M. McDermott (Eds.), Affect, embodiment, and place in critical literacy: Assembling theory and practice. Routledge.
- Simon, R., Nichols, T.P., Edwards, W., & Campano, G. (2019). “There’s really a lot going on here”: Toward a cosmopolitics of reader-response. In P. Trifonas (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Studies in Education. Routledge.
- Maton, R., & Nichols, T.P. (2017). Tracing tensions in humanization and market-based ideals: Philadelphia alternative education in past and present. In N. Bascia, M. Levin, & E. Fine (Eds.), Alternative schooling and student engagement: Democracy within bureaucracy. Palgrave Macmillan.
Reports & Whitepapers
- Boninger, F., & Nichols, T.P. (2025). Fit for purpose? How today's commercial digital platforms subvert key goals of public education. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center.
- Nichols, T.P. (2024). NEPC review: Learning systems — Shaping the role of artificial intelligence in education (Bellwether, September 2024). Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center.
- LeBlanc, R., Aguilera, E., Burriss, S., de Roock, R., Fassbender, W., Monea, B., Nichols, T.P., Pandya, J.Z., Robinson, B., Smith, A., & Stornaiuolo, A. (2023). Digital platforms and literacy education. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
- Polikoff, M.S., Desimone, L.M., Porter, A.C., Garet, M.S., Stornaiuolo, A., Pak, K., Flores, N., Smith, T.M., Song, M., Fuchs, L.S., Fuchs, D., & Nichols, T.P. (2022). The enduring struggle of standards-based reform: Lessons for a national center on college- and career-ready standards. Annenberg Institute and Brown University EdWorkingPapers, 22–622.
- Edgerton, A., Flores, N., Nichols, T.P., Plummer, E., Pak, K., Stornaiuolo, A., & Desimone, L. (2017). Year 1 state report: California. Philadelphia, PA: The Center for Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning.
- Flores, N., Nichols, T.P., Pak, K., Plummer, E., Stornaiuolo, A., & Desimone, L. (2017). Year 1 state report: Texas. Philadelphia, PA: The Center for Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning.
- Nichols, T.P., Plummer, E., Flores, N., Pak, K., Stornaiuolo, A., & Desimone, L. (2017). Year 1 state report: Massachusetts. Philadelphia, PA: The Center for Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning.
- Pak, K., Flores, N., Nichols, T.P., Plummer, E., Stornaiuolo, A., & Desimone, L. (2017). Year 1 state report: Kentucky. Philadelphia, PA: The Center for Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning.
- Stornaiuolo, A., Flores, N., Nichols, T.P., Pak, K., Plummer, E., & Desimone, L. (2017). Year 1 state report: Ohio. Philadelphia, PA: The Center for Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning.
Public Scholarship
- Logan, C., Nichols, T.P., & Garcia, A. (2026). Our time amongst the Luddites. Civics of Technology.
- Nichols, T.P., & Thrall, A. (2025). Whose media literacy? Civics of Technology.
- Thrall, A., Logan, C., & Nichols, T.P. (2025). Being a 'Civics of Tech' parent: Commitments. Civics of Technology.
- Thrall, A., Nichols, T.P., & Magill, K. (2025). Introducing digital civics club. Civics of Technology.
- Garcia, A., Logan, C., & Nichols, T.P. (2024). Inspiration from the Luddites: On Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine.” Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Pleasants, J., Krutka, D., & Nichols, T.P. (2024). Technoskeptical teaching across the content areas. Harvard Educational Review Voices in Education Blog.
- Pleasants, J., Krutka, D., & Nichols, T.P. (2024). What relationships do we want with technology? Civics of Technology Blog.
- Thrall, A., & Nichols, T.P. (2024). There's a better way to teach digital citizenship. Education Week.
- Nichols, T.P. (2023). The limits of ‘digital literacy.’ Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.
- Nichols, T.P., Maton, R., & Simon, E. (2023). Opposing innovations: Imaginaries of reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1970–1977. History of Education Quarterly HEQ&A Podcast.
- Pleasants, J., Krutka, D., & Nichols, T.P. (2023). Introducing the technology education iceberg. Civics of Technology.
- Garcia, A., & Nichols, T.P. (2022). Why ‘delete Spotify’ should not be the main lesson for digital civics education. EdSource.
- Nichols, T.P., & Garcia, A. (2022). Platform studies in education. Harvard Educational Review Voices in Education Blog.
- Nichols, T.P., & Garcia, A. (2022). Twitter sale shows us why educational technologies should be accountable to schools. EdSource.
- Nichols, T.P. (2021). We don’t need no “innovation.” Logic Magazine.
- Nichols, T.P. (2019). [Review of the book The intellectual properties of learning: A prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke, by John Willinsky]. Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, 31(1), 137–139.
- Nichols, T.P. (2013). Go ahead, mess with Texas Instruments. The Atlantic. In I. Bogost & C. Schaberg (Eds.), Object Lessons series.
- Nichols, T.P. (2013). Spreading literacy, spreading internet. The Atlantic.
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