Hi, @drsteveperry. Since you're not following us, we can't respond to your DM. Let us know when you're following and we'll get back to you.— edutopia (@edutopia) March 30, 2016
We've all been there. Maybe you accidentally forwarded an email to the entire email server. Maybe you accidentally liked a photo that someone posted ninety-six weeks ago. Maybe your boss found out about your slightly riqué Twitter handle. It's only human. We make mistakes with technology just like anything else. So while the above correspondence might seem rather trivial, it was tweeted out to all 759,000 of Edutopia's followers (which Steve Perry apparently isn't one of).
But was it an innocent mistake? Steve Perry has over 49,000 followers himself. Was Edutopia humble bragging in front of the better part of a million people about how they're having private conversations with cool people? Is it a power play on their part, trumping his considerably large following? Who knows. And does it matter? Not really. But there are probably a lot of other people like me that saw the tweet and thought to themselves why? And such are the pitfalls of modern technology. Even the most innocent mistakes can be misconstrued. There is a lesson in there about responsible technology use. Perhaps even media literacy. But I'll leave that for you to figure out.
And on another note, there was a humorous glitch in our Sakai site the other day. Sakai is the online learning platform we use at Brock, and we often use it to do quick diagnostic quizzes on Ministry documents. For our Aboriginal Education quiz this week the long answer answer field went all buggy and multiplied. I entered my answer in the first box and found I was given a mark of 0.01/1.0! So I went back and answered the question 98 more times. There were only 99 boxes, not 100, so I guess this put me up to 0.99, or some repeating decimal form of such number, that was rounded up to 1.0. I wonder how many people would have trouble figuring that out, or could be bothered to copypasta their work 98 times. [edit: one other person copied their answer to all 99 boxes]
