Are there any teachers using #Mastodon or other #Fediverse tools, such as blogs, for educational purposes?

I started working as a software developer in 2006 to build a social networking platform for one of the largest universities in Brazil. One of the main goals was to share knowledge via blogs and discussion forums, and I think there were quite a few positive use cases.

While doing research in physics, I moderated an online forum on Orkut* with more than 15 thousand members, together with some other physicists. Even professors began engaging in the discussions, which were sometimes at a high level, and they helped students who wanted to pursue an academic career or become teachers. I found the experience quite positive, mainly for students - it was forbidden asking for doing their homework.

This could be a good use case for non-addictive social media and set a good example for its use in education. This is in contrast to Big Tech social media, which is harming our youth.

* Orkut was a social network of Google, quite popular in Brazil in the early 2000s.

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