Welcome back friends! This was a busy week. This week I also posted the following: Recognizing the Details – Learning Event #6 – Hold space and bear witness to the daily interactions that make up our lives. Development & Validation of the TILT Survey – Behind the scenes of the development and validation of the…
Shocked, but not surprised A lot has happened in the world of technology and education since our last issue. A lot of news that we should cover. There are times that a story eclipses all others and I need to try and unpack all of the angles. Sadly, the events of January 6th, 2021 require…
The Right to Listen Digitally Lit #248 – 5/30/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #248 of Digitally Literate. Each week in this newsletter, I synthesize the news of the week in education, technology, & literacy. I need to first start this issue by indicating that we’ve experienced another night of protests as outrage over George…
Baby steps to mental health Digitally Lit #192 – 4/6/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to Digitally Literate. In this newsletter, I try to synthesize what happened this week so you can be digitally literate as well. I posted a couple of other things this week: The Technopanic Podcast – My…
Mastodon is a distributed social network, reminiscent of Twitter, but without ads or Nazis. Here’s why 100 Philly tweeters set up shop in a local “instance” called Jawns.club.
Mastodon is a distributed social network created in October 2016 that was built on the premise of creating independently run small communities that can talk to each other, rather than a single, endless stream of triggering horrors. It’s a microblogging platform that you can think of as Twitter without the ads. Tweets here are “toots,” in keeping with the Mastodon…
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