Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Here is your regular reminder that those "amazing new discoveries" you hear about in the news are usually not replicated.

I often think about my former colleague who complained he couldn't get a job in engineering--analyzing data for quality control was his was his field-- while he was taking a break from his climate change denial blog.

It amazes me that folks who can think logically and clearly, using data and evidence, in their field of expertise often cannot use those skills in other fields.

I might be selling a book on ebay that you need:
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Characteristics of IT – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/10/31/characteristics-of-it/

Capacity for Learning
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/11/capacity-for-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Teach so students know, feel, and act." Sure seems good advice.

Edtech for Edleaders: LMS Options
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/08/edtech-for-edleaders-lms-options/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I still have my college report cards. You can tell when I decided grades didn't really measure my learning.

For fun, I had AI generate some tweets. It seems to be quite good at making statements that would earn sophomores a solid C-.

Problems and tasks in the real world are rarely as bounded as problems in school.

If only instructors see the logic of the lesson, it'll probably fail. But that doesn't mean it must be made explicit at the start.

Evidence and Design
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/07/evidence-and-design/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When I solve problems in textbooks, I have all the informationI need. When I solve real-world problems, I don't have all of the information I need. Maybe we rethink at least some of the problems we give students to solve?

one thing I learned during 30 years in classrooms: If products in classroom resemble products in the real world, students will engage with the work.

Remembering and recreating information when directed is a unless skill, using it for pragmatic, critical, and creative purposes is useful.

Teaching the curriculum in a context so it is connected to other curriculum, students' experience , and their future identities is more effective than much of our teaching.

Every Halloween I think about the librarian colleague who made a “creepy books” display and featured my book in the middle of it.

Reflexivity: Teachers and Technology
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/06/reflexivity-teachers-and-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Multitasking
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/05/multitaksing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon