everton137Feb 24

Are there any teachers using #Mastodon or other #Fediverse tools, such as blogs, for educational purposes?

I started working as a software developer in 2006 to build a social networking platform for one of the largest universities in Brazil. One of the main goals was to share knowledge via blogs and discussion forums, and I think there were quite a few positive use cases.

While doing research in physics, I moderated an online forum on Orkut* with more than 15 thousand members, together with some other physicists. Even professors began engaging in the discussions, which were sometimes at a high level, and they helped students who wanted to pursue an academic career or become teachers. I found the experience quite positive, mainly for students - it was forbidden asking for doing their homework.

This could be a good use case for non-addictive social media and set a good example for its use in education. This is in contrast to Big Tech social media, which is harming our youth.

* Orkut was a social network of Google, quite popular in Brazil in the early 2000s.

#Education #Physics #Brazil #Blogs #BigTech #SocialMedia #Youth

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Yes, me. Not every week, but most weeks, I write a mini-thread about Maths - #MathsMonday - because I've seen enough #disinformation #misinformation on #Wikipedia to know the only true way to spread the word is to have a place where no-one else can back out your literal textbook quotes (notably the Wiki Maths pages in question never cite any actual textbooks πŸ™„ ). Here's an index thread of everything I have posted so far... https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110968910722113903
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1/3 Maths posts index Order of operations https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110807192608472798 You can do the Maths (i) - Terms https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111402596551682777 You can do the Maths (ii) - binary/unary operators https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111442316764297667 Roman Numeral mythbusting https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111362766293591449 Maths is universal https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/112019943359120289 -3Β² isn't ambiguous https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/112353831654372246 4^3^2 isn't ambiguous https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/112393591775357079 |a|b|c| isn't ambiguous https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/112431765955806074 f(x) isn't ambiguous https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/112471797382542523

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Feb 25 at 3:54amWeb
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@SmartmanApps how do you present it to students? What is their age? Are they also here?
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Oh! it's not for students. It's for adults who argue about the answers on socials because they've forgotten the rules! πŸ˜‚ (i.e. kill off the gaslighters)