Marc Jones @marcjones@scholar.social

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Seeing one of Elsevier's / SSRN's reps write a professional scholcomm listserv with the claim "We are all competing for attention in a world overrun with attention deficit disorder" doesn't inspire me to extend them any confidence or good will regarding how they'll treat their users & data.

Using my neurodivergence as
a) a casually ableist metaphor for modernity's superfluity of media &
b) an excuse for surveillance capitalism

is not a good look.

guess what? If you steal work from grad students, it messes with their careers SO DON'T DO IT

a friend of mine who spends a LOT of his time picking up plastic waste from parks, rivers, streets, etc. had a good idea. He decided to photograph the non biodegradable waste and tag companies on social media with it. So if he finds a plastic Subway cup, he tells Subway about it with the message "is this yours?" I dig this because it's not something that blames the consumer. It puts the blame where it belongs: on the producer.

Every year when I take students to LA I push myself in different ways. This year it's been physical, mental, musical, and it feels so good to stretch my arms and my mind.

Learning out loud. Learning in the wild. Learning with one another. I love it. a. lot.

Today started with a waterfall and ended with a rainbow. We're at a school doing jazz workshops all day tomorrow. bliss
#thisday #smallstories

my blog about tech, books, and teaching.

self-hosted WriteFreely instance running on Yunohost.

https://blog.arkadi.nohost.me/

What if privacy law was as strict as copyright law nowadays? You are not allowed to copy any private information about someone until 70 years after their death, even if it was non-commercial, and you can sue the heck (that is: €€€) out of someone if they do.
And then do the reverse to copyright law: copying anything copyrighted is the standard, creators who don't want it are refuted with "Oh, but you don't have something to hide, do you?", and Big Tech and Government actively help people to copy work from creators and to spread it further.

@marcjones a teacher wanting more time to do their job? i know exactly what you're talking about.

never enough time ahhhhhh

Do you write a blog? Post your art?

Please share with us. I want to see what sort of amazing, wacky stuff we are creating.

#BlogsOfMastodon

Imagining a world where everyone would think it unethical to have an academic journal where reviewers weren't paid

And I mean "paid" as in: full-time work with job security, benefits and everything, not like an "honorarium"

Myself, @fridgebuzznow, and my spouse are making music.

We put our first demo up on bandcamp.

Check it out if you want to listen to music.

https://toadlilies.bandcamp.com/album/demo

I also made a tiny website for it.

https://toadlilies.band

I've used debates off and on in classrooms for years, and with the right framing I think they can help build oral and written historical reasoning skills such as proper use of evidence to support a thesis, but I've never gotten over a Jesuit colleague who told me he never used debate because it assumed the use of knowledge as a weapon and I vacillate on how correct that is.

It was 7 years and 4 phones later that texting came into existence.

And I don’t care what that one article said, texting on 12 button phones was way easier. You didn’t even have to look at your screen. Just memorize button clicks, and feel for the notch indicating you were on the “6”.

The Girl Scouts of Western Washington were offered $100,000 on the condition that the donation "will not be used to support transgender girls".

They sent the money back, held a fundraising campaign, and raised $300,000. #ForEVERYGirl

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-girl-scouts-transgender-20150703-story.html

#introductions Hi! I'm have a phd un educational #psychology. My research is about cultural historical activity theory and social media.

#introductions English as Foreign Language Teacher who is also passionate about using technology in the classroom! Nice to meet you :)

I had a new website in Reclaim Hosting and will use it to go back to some #el30 #mooc stuff including installing #grsshopper but for now just a static image.

http://minami-2-413.net

How do we develop learning environments where students are not afraid of making mistakes?