Are #Educators Leaving Twitter?
https://www.techlearning.com/news/are-educators-leaving-twitter
(n.b. Elon University has no relation to Elon musk ;)
#EduTwitter #Teachers @edutooters
@dougholton @edutooters I definitely have not seen a mass exodus of educators from the bird to here. I engaged with other educators regularly on there, and maybe 5% (very unscientific) are now on here. I know that it's a process, and I think a question I have been asking is how do I (we) as a community invite and make welcome educators, especially those from historically marginalized backgrounds on here.
@ZingerLearns @dougholton @edutooters
If you think about how educators arrived on Twitter you will identify thought leaders promoting themselves on other platforms e.g conferences and podcasts as available via Twitter as a primary vector.
Unless the thought leaders move, the mass of teachers won't follow. I have been sending emails or filling out contact forms for people I follow asking for their mastodon address to let them know there is a demand.
@ZingerLearns @dougholton @edutooters another key vector will be professional organizations like @ACM and @csteachersorg
Finally we need the curriculum providers who offer technical support to have a presence as well (for computer science some of these would be code.org, CodeHS, AFE ProjectSTEM, Test out.)
@scerruti @dougholton @edutooters @ACM @csteachersorg great points. I do wonder about the #Edutainers vs. grass roots educators and their respective communities. I actively avoided the capitalistic self promoters who had little to offer on the bird app but platitudes and feel good nonsense, they also tended to have a very particular following vs those who were genuinely engaged in equity focused education work
@ZingerLearns @dougholton @edutooters @ACM I have been crying out in the wilderness for educators to find smaller instances for this reason. Let the fediverse deal with the capitalistic self promoters and build a PLN of truly aligned interests. This was my motivation for starting a computer science education focused instance.
I don't believe that computer science educators are as well served being on mastodon.soclal or even mastodon.acm.org. edutooters group can serve as the glue among us.
@scerruti @ZingerLearns @dougholton @edutooters
I don't need the mass of teachers.
I would just like enough fellow teachers in order to have a conversation between a few colleagues who can understand and relate to one another.
@ZingerLearns @dougholton @edutooters keep promoting and point to the instance Mastodon.education 🙂