Educators to Follow on Mastodon for Innovative Teaching Insights

I have been using Mastodon for almost six years. I continue to be amazed at the quality of discourse and the diverse community of educators and folks interested in education in the Fediverse. If you are a person who is accustomed to algorithm driven centralized social networks then Mastodon is going to seem a bit unusual at first. If you are WordPress user you can connect your blog to Mastodon with the ActivityPub plugin. You don’t need a blog to connect to Mastodon. You just need to create an account on anyone of dozens of Mastodon instances that exist around the world. One you are connected to an instance you can find other users and connect to them whether they are on your particular server instance or not.

Mastodon communications are driven by hashtags which many of you are already familiar with. Some of my favorites are #education #edtech #technology #opensource #linux #libraries #writers #writing #oer #nerd #stem #steam #AI #Python #humor #puns #jokes

A toot on Mastodon is typically five hundred characters long. Like other microblogging platforms you may have used before brevity is prized but there’s more than enough space to get your information across and then you use hashtags to let your audience know what your toot is about.

Here’s a list of twenty-one educators currently using Mastodon.

Eric Sheninger – @esheninger@mastodon.social
Sandy Kendell – @SandyKendell@mastodon.education
Wesley Fryer – @wfryer@mastodon.cloud
Martin Dougiamas – @martin@openedtech.social
Alice Barr – @alicebarr@techhub.social
Miguel Guhlin – @mguhlin@mastodon.education
EdTech Group – @edtech@chirp.social
Clint LaLonde – @clintlalonde@mastodon.oeru.org
Doug Holton – https://mastodon.social/@dougholton
Anna Millis – @amills@mastodon.oeru.org
Open at Virginia Tech – @openatvt@fosstodon.org
SPARC – @sparc@mastodon.social
Project Gutenberg – @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
Smithsonian Magazine – @Smithsonianmag@flipboard.com
Steven Beschloss – @StevenBeschloss@mastodon.social
Bill Fitzgerald = @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone
WikiEducation – @WikiEducation@wikis.world
CreativeCommons – @creativecommons@mastodon.social
Edutopia – @edutopia@mastodon.education
Cognitively Accessible Math – @geonz@mathstodon.xyz
NPR – @npr@mastodon.social

In conclusion, Mastodon offers a refreshing alternative to traditional, algorithm-driven social networks. Its decentralized nature and vibrant community provide an enriching environment for educators and those passionate about education. Whether you’re sharing your thoughts, discovering new ideas through hashtags, or connecting your WordPress blog with the ActivityPub plugin, Mastodon opens up a world of possibilities. Embrace the change and dive into meaningful conversations on this unique platform. Happy tooting!

#Edtech #AI #Education #humor #jokes #libraries #Linux #nerd #OER #opensource #puns #Python #steam #STEM #technology #writers #writing

AI "customer support" is literally Rickrolling people who are asking it for help.

This is what happens when you train spicy autocomplete on the internet - as @pluralistic put it, it's not good enough to do your job, but it is good at convincing your boss to fire you and do a shitty job in your place.

https://x.com/altimor/status/1825659507617460439

#AI #AiResearch #CoryDoctorrow

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The #EU diverting money away from free software production and towards #AI (meaning LLMs) is fairly predictable if you understand large heirarchical organisations. The people at the top of the pyramid operate within a fact-free fantasy world of reports produced by their subordinates, and the thing about Singularitarians is that they are good at hype in the same way that the antivirus and infosec people used to be. The scare them and then take their money shakedown model.

A lot of the stuff with LLMs going on now is just investor fraud. To carry out that type of fraud the thing being done needs to be highly expensive so that lots of money can be tipped into it, and the fraudsters can then later fail to deliver anything economically viable and retire to some tax haven never to be seen again. There have been things like this in the history of AI, but what's going on now is on a bigger scale.