Are You #TwitterAddicted? Embrace the Gift of Listening #Mastodon https://www.mguhlin.org/2022/11/are-you-twitteraddicted-embrace-gift-of.html #mguhlin #Reflection
Setting Up Your #Mastodon Profile and Bio https://www.mguhlin.org/2022/11/setting-up-your-mastodon-profile-and-bio.html #Tutorial #howto
Mastodon is foremost an European-hosted project https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/mastodon-near-me_828094
Yes, accurately captioning videos and describing images is morally right and often a legal necessity, but it's not just to benefit the estimated 15% of folks who may have permanent disabilities. Most all of us have experienced temporary or situational disabilities, as well, as depicted in the diagram below and this article: https://www.boia.org/blog/including-temporary-and-situational-disabilities-in-the-accessibility-conversation
And video captions benefit everyone, regardless https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5214590/
#Accessibility #A11Y #UDL
Here's an interesting question: How deliberate are your efforts to build relevance into your daily lessons?
Kids ask, "Why are we learning this?" all the time --- and I know we answer that question informally.
But are we taking intentional steps to build relevance?
Research says we aren't --- and I wonder what implications that has for student engagement and motivation.
Good article highlighting ongoing #ransomware threats involving U.S. #education entities over a holiday, when security teams are likely especially under-staffed or at least less focused: https://therecord.media/cincinnati-state-college-one-of-several-schools-added-to-ransomware-leak-sites-on-thanksgiving/
In total, ransomware operators publicly threatened five schools and colleges on extortion sites over the past week, the latest in a rising number of such threats involving higher & lower education over the past year. On top of the cases mentioned in the article, the #Hive & #BianLian ransomware groups each also threatened public K-12 school systems in the last week.
The news comes 10 days after the latest U.S. federal government #StopRansomware alert focused specifically on Hive, which has threatened a wide range of #criticalinfrastructure entities, including #healthcare orgs. The alert offered a great summary of the techniques & procedures associated with Hive. Here is a fantastic new blog highlighting detection engineering ideas around recent Hive behaviors: https://micahbabinski.medium.com/catching-a-wev-tutil-threat-detection-for-the-rest-of-us-f692f01efcd4
A fair amount of #TTP intelligence now exists around the other ransomware threatening education orgs last week and over the past year. I look forward to maintaining & expanding this dashboard which shows a combined visual currently covering the nine ransomware threatening schools since last year: https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/8d9f212a-0312-4c2f-bba5-85ab7c7224c6
Direct links to specific ransomware heatmaps:
#ViceSociety https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/5f23ef9e-52e1-4281-ba79-9e16fc0e5032
Hive https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/7d9960ec-8177-4c68-94b3-b2302ff26cbf
BianLian https://app.tidalcyber.com/share/b5e2dad3-ae63-4fc6-b601-f185e3fe1742
And some quick metrics and resources around the trend of ransomware extortion threats involving education orgs https://infosec.exchange/@IntelScott/109353926668530705
I had a great conversation about #fun in #education with my new community here on #Mastodon. What struck me, however, was the difference in the attitudes of educators based on the age of their students. Who (wrongly) decided that #highered students don't need fun in their education?
“when learning is more effortful, it often results in better long-term retention. “
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2022/10/20-1 #EducationQuote #Education #Research #mgk
Twitter Data Breach
5.4 million Twitter users' stolen data leaked online — more shared privately
Photographer captures dramatic human face in wave on the Great Lakes
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Bird flu outbreak drives Nebraska to cull 1.8 million more chickens
This year, more than 50 million birds in 46 states have already died — mostly from being slaughtered to control the spread, but some from the deadly virus itself. It's the largest outbreak since 2015, when 50 million birds died.
@brasst the big problem is that the cost of the proprietary software is generally paid at the State or even National level. But costs are incurred locally. The proprietary industry plays education like a fiddle.
The amazing thing is that the cost of setting up and using the #FOSS stuff is negligible. We're supporting 200,000 learners with our digital learning ecosystem for an entire IT infrastructure budget under $10k per year. I run it all solo. Here's a paper on it: https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5763/5600
#introduction Hello #histodons, I'm a historian of the American Revolution and the history of medicine with a book coming out next week. Not a great time for Twitter to fall apart, but I figured I should promote it here too. You can save 40% through 12/10 with code HHOL22 https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12707/contagion-liberty
@wfryer @mguhlin Lots to dig into here. Thanks Miguel. In the spirit of sharing, I weave Lisa Cron's "Wired for Story" into our work with instructional tech and VR. The power of story to create emotional connections is what great teachers tap into. Mollee Holloman turned me onto Lisa Cron'ss work.
https://youtu.be/74uv0mJS0uM
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
@brasst ever used QGIS? It's #FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). It'd be great for your students, 'cause then they could run it at home (if they have a computer) without having to try to find a way to use ArcGIS. Then they can take it as far as their interest carries them.
Would be so cool to see schools modelling the use of #FOSS over proprietary software biz models like that employed by ESRI (among other horrible mega tech corps that exploit our kids at every turn).
@brasst the reason ESRI make it available for free is to hook kids (and schools) on using it so that people will use it by default when they're done. No other reason. Which should be reason enough to use #FOSS on principle... Here's what a fully FOSS school looks like: https://davelane.nz/openschool
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