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
A librarian and I once found a 25-year old Oregon Trail CD. we were surprised to find it worked when we installed it. The middle school English teacher was excited to use it in here classes!
If you “know” the answer, you are a careless observer and thinker.
If your idea lacks a causal mechanism, they are not worth others’ attention.
A good theory will help you learn more.
Remembering. Understanding. Discovering. All have a place in curriculum.
Understanding is grounded in knowing when your generalizations will fail.
Scientific laws are human constructs. Nature just does what it does, humans name it and describe it.
Exerts look at complex situations and focus on what matters. Novices get distracted by the complexity.
“If we could perceive everything science would be unnecessary.” I never thought about that, but I guess it is accurate.
As teaches, are we trying to get things done, or are we trying to build meaing?
A good framework helps you translate theory into practice.
If theory cannot help us understand nature, it is useless.
Learning is an iterative process... do we really understand it during a 4-month semester?
I've never really seen cacti in the wild. I volunteered to road trip with my son from Arizona to New England. We left the parts of Arizona with cacti before it got light. Guess we gotta go back.
Do you think culture and society does not affect cognition? You are free to continue being wrong.
When looking carefully at problems in education, we discover they cannot be clearly stated, and the causes cannot be isolated.
IT professionals and educators rely on much different types of knowledge, skills, and habits to their work.
When engineering, known procedures and used to configure the devices and engineers can test its operation before it is deployed. Planning and designing lessons for classrooms is not engineering.
School computer systems are very complex… perhaps too complex.
- 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
