Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲 @mguhlin@qoto.org

Curious about moving from #Twitter to #Mastodon – a Twitter alternative? Read this article to learn how to join the Mastodon migration.

Please give it a #boost and click through to blog, maybe leave a comment about your experience making #TwitterMigration and responses to your #Introduction

Trying to raise awareness about the reach possible in this #federated space. 😉

https://blog.tcea.org/how-to-join-the-mastodon-educator-migration/

#tcea #education #edtech #edutooter @edutooter @edutooters ##Mastodon #Tutorial #k12 #teachers #learners #school #educator #maestros #docent #highered #welcome #googleedu

#mguhlin

ABOUT ME #Introduction #TwitterMigration
Howdy! So glad to be here with you all! Miguel Guhlin here from #Texas. I’m a Director of #ProfessionalDevelopment in #EdTech with #BilingualEducation Certification. I have served as a District Technology Director and Instructional Tech Director. Not afraid to Boost.

My Mastodon tutorials and videos appear here:
https://go.mgpd.org/feditoots

I am an #EduBlogger at Around the Corner at
http://mguhlin.org,
and
TCEA.org TechNotes Blog at
https://blog.tcea.org

You can find some of my work designing/maintaining online courses at
https://courses.tcea.org

Some of my hashtags for your consideration:

#EduTooter #EduTooters #EduBlogger #education #EdTech #EdChat #TxEd #teacher #science #philosophy #Epictetus #Stoic #dogs #Writer #Books #Westerns #SciFi #CyberSecurity #WordPress #LearnDash #iOS #TCEA #ScienceOfReading #InstructionalDesign #K12 #OER #FOSS #STEM #GoogleEdu #CTO #TechnologyDirector #Texas #LaParranda #Panama #introduction #introductions #infosec

PRONOUNS
Allow me to share this perspective as a Panamanian who was raised in the Canal Zone and then came to the United States when he was 10 years old to attend private, Catholic schools until high school graduation. It was a sheltered upbringing, by design of course by loving parents. Still, I want to be clear about something often taken for granted.

I cannot support hatred of individuals. I do not accept skin color or LGBTQ+ as a reason for poor treatment of other people. This has never been more needed, especially in education and online spaces like this one, given the level of hate and bias.

Being who you are should not result in blind bias or hatred. I reject that and the frames that people have adopted that result in such hate.

As a Latinx who grew up in the Republic of Panama and then Texas, I have my own perspective.

My own identity as a cisgender (he/him/his), a bilingual/bicultural speaker, a person caught between two cultures, I have not suffered the slings and arrows of bias, prejudice that I can only ally with, including #Black #LGBTQ+ #IndigenousPeoples.

Since I speak and write in Standard English, I enjoy a level of white privilege due to my skin color (from my Swedish father) and my last name (“Guhlin” is Swedish, not Latino), I know that my life experience does not give me the authority to speak in more certain terms.

So, I offer my perspective in this space in a tentative way, and hope that I can learn with and from others.

@ThePanamaNews que noticias de mi patria, Panama? I have dual citizenship, too. 😀

Another Symptom of #Missouri Teacher Shortage: Growing Number of 4-Day School Weeks

“40.5% of Missouri #teachers are leaving their school districts after three years. In Independence, that rate is slightly higher, with 43.7% choosing to leave their positions.

A four-day work week, which is growing in popularity in the tech industry, is pitched as an incentive for school staff to stay loyal to their professions and the district.”

https://flip.it/_tp2j8

#Texas bill outlaws diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in Texas Higher ed. “The response is not only to outlaw the teaching about injustice and political movements but to defund academic disciplines and programs that mention, think about, or enact diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

This bill is about censorship, commitment to U.S. exceptionalism, and prohibition.”

https://flip.it/eyXLlb