Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Edtech for Edleaders: Learning Management Systems Defined
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/05/edtech-for-edleaders-learning-management-systems-defined/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Edtech for Edleaders: Wireless Networks (wifi)
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/04/edtech-for-edleaders-wireless-networks-wifi/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Papert’s Three Phases of Educational Technology
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/01/paperts-three-phases-of-educational-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Edtech for Edleaders: Choose Two
https://hackscience.education/2018/05/31/edtech-for-edleaders-choose-two/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“If nothing changes, nothing changes” is an observation on actions and outcomes… an accurate observation.

“Pretty soon we strive for the grade, not the learning.” This has been reality for far longer than we admit.

It’s not all technology we reject, only the new technology.

“If teachers can be replaced by computers, they should be.” Yeah… I can’t really argue against that observation.

Some things we spend lots of time and energy doing in classrooms have little effect on what students learn.

Here’s your regular reminder that Taylor was working in manufacturing, not education.

“If we cannot comprehend the truth, we become trapped in conventional falsehoods and false choices, unable to envision new possibilities.” -Robert Reich

Systemic dysfunction. Yup… can’t argue against that.

@hayo@infosec.exchange “as it was intended” is the key :)

The solution is rarely within the existing system.

Self delusion. If we could reduce it, we might have a chance.

“You are deviating from our norms.”

Yeah, because your norms suck.

O’ahu has wonderful botanical gardens.

Testing again from new phone

Posting from the new phone.

Ignorance and fear are obstacles to progress.

I might agree, but we also need to ask “progress for whom?”

We must also be prepared for unintended consequences.