Sandy Kendell @SandyKendell@qoto.org

These two maps are a good example how data visualization influences our perception. Same election, same results, but one shows the winning party by area, one by population density. (Map Credits: Karim Douïeb, Jetpack.ai)

Earlier this year, I released Technology in Schools: Its Not Like this in Business under CC-BY-NC.

"My purpose in writing this book is to give readers a view into the work of managing information technology in schools. IT professionals will notice differences (some nuanced and some significant) between the needs and expectations of IT users in business and IT in school."

You can find an .odt and .pdf versions on my web site:
https://hackscience.net/technology-in-schools/

#introduction #qotojournal Hello. I've looked at a couple of servers and finally settled here. What is particularly excellent and unique is the ability to follow another domain of interest and get its whole public timeline on your Home page or in a list. So I can easily keep an eye on what's happening on other servers. Everyone needs Domain Subscription!

I am going to try to find time this weekend to add in several new features to QOTO, fix a few small bugs, and if we aare REALLY lucky and things go well I might release a new version of QOTO this weekend (no promises though my life is CRAZY right now, hard to predict).

A reminder to all the folks coming over from #Twitter. A favorite here is basically telling the poster you liked what they said. But since there is not an algorithm feeding you content based on what you favorite, that's all they do. They just "bla-doop" in the poster's notifications. If you want to get that post out to other people, you have to boost it. Then everyone who follows you will see it too.

(Give it a try on this post if you like)

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

@dougholton I'm trying to learn about #edtech but don't know where to start...any great books/articles/people?

Project Zero's Thinking Routine Toolbox
--> 'A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. PZ researchers designed thinking routines to deepen students’ thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.” '
#EdTech #Education #EduTooter
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines#IntroducingExploringIdeas

On the one hand: mastodon is so weird and hard to understand!

On the other: literally it's the same as everything else except you pick which door you come in thru

🔓Secondary school teachers' use of online formative assessment during COVID

"The unique COVID-19 context made teachers rethink their teaching and assessment practices and helped them to also think more critically in why and what to assess. In some schools this even fuelled a discussion on their educational and assessment vision, discussing the balance between summative and FA, as well as on a future blended FA practice"

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12699

#Education #OnlineLearning #Assessment #Teaching

More women have voted than men in every presidential election since 1964 & in recent years there are about 10M more registered women than men. Yet they are discussed as a political footnote instead of the majority that they are.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3729404-its-the-women-stupid/

OOPS! I joined the wrong #mastodon server! A guide to changing instances:

1. create a NEW account at the instance you want to join.
e.g. use this link to create a #MedMastodon account
https://med-mastodon.com/invite/4aoetrX7

2. login to your OLD account
3. click "preferences" on the right menu
4. click "account"
5. scroll until you see "moving to a different account" & click "configure it here"
5. fill in your NEW account handle & PW
6. click "Move followers" button

Congrats you've moved to your NEW account!

HI 👋 I'm an asst. prof. of education focused on #rural spaces and interested in
#equity
#belonging
#writing
#teaching
#highered
#academia
#policy
#leadership