Jon Mason

@Milarepa@sigmoid.social
52 Followers
115 Following
103 Posts
#introduction Currently an academic at Charles Darwin University, Australia. Interested in most things involving #digitaltechnologies, #learning, #teaching, #research, #openness, #aied #standards #standardization #Sensemaking, #wisdom & cultivating insight
digital learningexploring frontiers
sensemakingmaking sense when I can
wisdomso simple sometimes
questioningmoving beyond the search paradigm
Jon MasonNov 14, 2023
petersuberNov 12, 2023

How are #altmetrics services adjusting to the decline of #Twitter, especially #AcademicTwitter? Are they giving Twitter mentions less weight? Are they tracking mentions in other social-media platforms? If so, which platforms? Where do *they* think academics are going? Do they have good data?

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Impact #SocialMedia #TwitterMigration #X
@academicchatter

Jon MasonNov 12, 2023
@weblearningNov 12, 2023
Yesterday was my first anniversary of #Mastodon! Thanks to all who made this move possible and friendly. Also big thanks to https://www.reclaimhosting.com/category/mastodon/ and Jim for providing this ds106 infrastructure and expertise.
mastodon – Reclaim Hosting

Jon MasonNov 12, 2023
Show threadZuri (he/him) 🕐 CETNov 11, 2023
@danmcquillan https://notbyai.fyi/
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Jon MasonNov 4, 2023
christina bNov 4, 2023

I do miss having a saucy dictionary around.

Offset
Gaslight
Caldera
Yada-yada
Straw
and - worth knowing - Hamartia

..are the words of the week.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the-words-of-the-week-nov-3

The Words of the Week - Nov. 3

Dictionary lookups from politics, New York, and volcanology

Jon MasonNov 4, 2023
The Conversation AU + NZNov 4, 2023
Killing for Country does brilliantly for one group of families what a robust, locally grounded truth-telling process might do for the whole nation.
https://theconversation.com/i-cant-argue-away-the-shame-frontier-violence-and-family-history-converge-in-david-marrs-harrowing-and-important-new-book-215050?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1699050517
'I can't argue away the shame': frontier violence and family history converge in David Marr's harrowing and important new book

Killing for Country does brilliantly for one group of families what a robust, locally grounded truth-telling process might do for the whole nation.

The Conversation
Jon MasonNov 4, 2023
Indivisible ❌👑Nov 3, 2023

Our movement was born online and it grew thanks to the reach that Twitter afforded us.

But the Twitter we knew is largely gone. Today's dangerous cesspool of hate and disinformation is bad for progressive organizing, so we've decided to step back from "X." https://indivisibleteam.medium.com/were-stepping-back-from-the-increasingly-dangerous-and-dysfunctional-x-and-we-re-sorry-it-s-a15524fab070

Jon MasonOct 30, 2023
Frederik BorgesiusOct 30, 2023
EU ‘Commission welcomes today's agreement by G7 leaders on International Guiding Principles on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a voluntary Code of Conduct for AI developers under the Hiroshima AI process. These principles and the voluntary Code of Conduct will complement, at international level, the legally binding rules that the EU co-legislators are currently finalising under the EU AI Act.’ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_5379 #eu #law #politics #ai #tech #chatgpt
Jon MasonOct 29, 2023
Maha Bali مها باليOct 26, 2023
Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures has been published! Free: https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363.
edited by
@czernie @catherinecronin with many wonderful authors #HE4Good
Launch event via
Equity Unbound coming soon inshallah!
"Rare are the academics and professionals who are not dispirited, even demoralised...Yet change is possible, both change responding to flaws in the sector and proactive change aiming to prioritise values that are just, humane, and globally sustainable."
Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures

After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries.

Jon MasonOct 21, 2023
Chuck DarwinOct 18, 2023
I began "Julia" a little sceptical about whether a reimagining of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" would work as a novel in its own right, but Sandra Newman turns Orwell’s classic vision of the future inside out, and readers will find themselves gripped and surprised by what happens when the object of Winston Smith’s gaze looks back, and retells their journey into love and resistance.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/18/julia-by-sandra-newman-review-a-new-nineteen-eighty-four
Julia by Sandra Newman review – a new Nineteen Eighty-Four

This ambitious retelling from Julia’s point of view gives Winston Smith’s lover the agency she lacked

The Guardian
Jon MasonOct 18, 2023
Pleased to see our article on the iSTAR framework published https://doi.org/10.37074/jalt.2023.6.2.33 #aied
Educational futures of intelligent synergies between humans, digital twins, avatars, and robots - the iSTAR framework | Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching