Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
Yochai Benkler observed, “the change brought about by the networked information environment is deep. It is structural. It goes to the very foundations of how liberal markets and liberal democracies have coevolved for almost two centuries.”
What if we focused more on the predictive validity of our data. If we knew what it signaled for our students' futures and we could explain the mechanism.
Psychologists used to perceive the mind to be a container, and knowledge to be a cognitive phenomenon arising within an individual’s brain. Notice this is in the past tense.
"The success of instruction can be measured with a test." Can it?
"Educators know how to deliver instruction so the curriculum is transferred into students’ brains." Do they? With certainty? In every situation? For every student? For every group of students?
"Curriculum comprises well-defined information and skills that represent necessary human knowledge" is a misconception.
"The purpose of schools is to ensure students get the information and skills into their brains, thus become educated." Ostensibly. sure, but there are many other purposes, many of which have nothing to do with learning.
Like all human creations, education has a history, and the future of education is contingent on that history. It is the source of institutional inertia, and it limits (albeit temporarily) the potential futures of education.
In describing education as a social invention, Jerome Bruner observed, “each generation must define afresh the nature, direction, and aims of education to assure [that] freedom and rationality can be attained for a future generation."
Looking for a recipe on how to improve education? Yeah... it doesn't exist.
Yeah… the propaganda in my Twitter feed is making the platform unusable. I used to enjoy the professionals I found there.
The “no one wants to work anymore” mantra is so tiresome. We need to start countering it with “no one wants to pay anymore.”
How did I get to be a 58-year old fan of science who never heard of Francois Jacob’s day science & night science?
One of my summer hobbies (in New England) is reading outside. I’m reading outside today too. Very spring-like November afternoon.
In know educators. You don't want them running your IT.
I know IT. You don't want them running schools.
If you aren't ' collaborating, you are doing it wrong.
Asking questions and understanding the answers are two different things.
Just because Excel suggests 3-D graphs does not mean you should use them.
We have lots of systems to facilitate communication. Communication is a problem in our organization.
This is common. It is not solved with another technology system.
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
