I've been dipping into Mastodon daily for a few months to see if I could find conversations that relate to my interests. While I find many friends from Twitter and have met a few new people, I've yet to find conversation threads similar to what I still find on Twitter. For instance, since 2/10 I've been following #EngageMOOC on Twitter and digging into course readings and videos. It's a fascinating, very important, topic. I've not found anything like that here...yet. #stillTwitter
#engageMOOC
Catching up w a quick view of "Topic 2: Understanding Polarization" for #engagemooc. I'm a few days behind because of entrance exams and Moodle stuff. Now I'm getting ready to go on a vacation, but hope to engage more from my hotel room later
This topic intro with Natalie Delia Deckard, Davidson College starts with some definitions where topic one did not. The images for the definition of polarization look at a bipolar left right world. Mine feels spongy multipolar.
RT @sensor63@twitter.com: @bonstewart@twitter.com A3 We need to be economic with our attention to really focus on people around us with whom we can effect sustainable, meaningful change. There is a place for leaders with megaphones but the most important work demands presence, care, time. #EngageMOOC
https://twitter.com/sensor63/status/964554087009325056
RT @schmutzie@twitter.com: @bonstewart@twitter.com A4 Not to downplay the depth and seriousness of online discourse, but what is right in front of us often feels larger and more monumental than it is in hindsight. I take deep breaths, walk away to clear my head/heart, look for guidance in another venue. #engageMOOC
https://twitter.com/schmutzie/status/964556955216789504
And more #engagemooc chat
Bob Bertsch "Following @Downes ... we enable engagement because it may lead to self-efficacy and a feeling of agency which may lead to action?"
From the #engagemooc live chat
Jeannine St. Amand "lurking in one community can lead to engagement in another"
Yes. This. I think so. Examples?
Natalie in #engagemooc "You're exploring what is possible when you're going in circles" around these definitions or something along those lines. ;-)
We're starting #engagemooc without a set definition of the term "engagement" so as to avoid inside / outside split right from the get go.
Terms popping up in the live chat so far:
making things happen vs watching things happen
putting energy into something
intentionality
making a space at a table
inviting to the table
forcing a space at the table
Now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tEKwd2V28 for #engagemooc and we are live.
Just hanging out waiting for #engagemooc to crank up the YouTube machine.
I do my education and academicky stuff over on scholar.social. Look out for #engagemooc over there. #polarization
“The serious threat to our democracy is not the existence of foreign totalitarian states. It is the existence within our own personal attitudes and within our own institutions of conditions which have given a victory to external authority, discipline, uniformity and dependence upon The Leader in foreign countries. The battlefield is also accordingly here – within ourselves and our institutions.”
(John Dewey, 1939)
Anyone else thinking of doing #engageMOOC https://scholar.social/media/BcqNlgqkqTsuS27-fJ4
This looks very good.
Anybody in? It's on edX which isn't really my favorite. Wish they'd chosen a more open platform and gone truly #cmooc but hey, good people is good people.
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/pop-up-mooc-engagement-in-a-time-of-polarization/
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