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Terry: dreading the bombardment of ill-informed views!

Twitter toxicity: Beware the ultracrepidarians - revisited

July 1, 2022

It all started with Brexit. At least, that’s when I first became aware of the preponderance of people who are more than happy to pontificate about, and lecture the rest of us on, a subject of which they have no expertise.

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In News & views Tags ultracrepidarian, Twitter

Terry: dreading the bombardment of ill-informed views!

Twitter toxicity: Beware the ultracrepidarians (updated)

March 12, 2022

It all started with Brexit. At least, that’s when I first became aware of the preponderance of people who are more than happy to pontificate about, and lecture the rest of us on, a subject of which they have no expertise.

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In News & views Tags ultracrepidarian, Twitter
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Trump, Twitter and all that

January 17, 2021

If you are willing and able to engage your class in discussions about the ed tech issues of the day, recent events in the USA provide rich pickings.

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In Discussion topic Tags Twitter, Trump, Facebook, Parler, free speech

Twitter detoxified

January 4, 2021

But do they offer any constructive suggestions? Of course not…

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In News & views Tags Twitter, detoxofication
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Not sure, by Terry Freedman

Twitter: a re-evauation

December 22, 2020

I imagine I’ll be on Twitter for a while yet, but I do find myself spending less and less time on it, and engaging in conversations less and less.

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In Reflections, On this day Tags Twitter, quote, QuoteBlock, Stephen Downes
Terry: dreading the bombardment of ill-informed views!

Terry: dreading the bombardment of ill-informed views!

Twitter toxicity: Beware the ultracrepidarians

December 14, 2020

It all started with Brexit. At least, that’s when I first became aware of the preponderance of people who are more than happy to pontificate about, and lecture the rest of us on, a subject of which they have no expertise.

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In News & views Tags ultracrepidarian, Twitter

Twitter infestation

October 17, 2019

Ultracrepidarians, disrespectful people —- why bother with Twitter?

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In News & views Tags Twitter

Education hashtags

August 16, 2016

Here's a link to a post containing a comprehensive list of Twitter educational chats, compiled by Simon Johnson.

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In News & views, Quick Looks, Reviews, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT, Professional development, Leading & Managing Computing & ICT Tags hashtags, Simon Johnson, Twitter
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