Do you know of any schools with their own #mastodon server? I could see a lot of advantages:
- have students learn social media use in a relatively safe environment
- encourage contacts between students with similar interests
- you could have senior students moderate and maintain the instance for extra credit (with teacher supervision)
Possible cons:
- that would require all students to have access to a smartphone or computer
- students would maybe never use it because it’s lame?
#education
@lex I'd say that a much bigger issue is that schools generally *aren't* safe/trusted environments for a lot of students, and "your identity and self-expression is tied to a hierarchical organization that holds power over you" (ie. a school) seems like... not really an improvement over the big social media platforms.
It's not without reason that the common advice among students back in my high school days was "don't ever use your school e-mail for anything personal, because the school can read everything".
