Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

What is “Good” Technology-Rich Teaching?
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/02/what-is-good-technology-rich-teaching/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

IThe best part of buying and reading used books is the marginalia.

"Im being treated unfairly" can most often be interpreted as "people don
t believe my dumb ideas."

Technology that does something human-like is boring... we probably do it better. Technology that expandes and enhances our capabilities... that is interesting.

Unprejudiced observers don’t exist.

A Teacher’s Realization that Literacy is Changing
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/01/a-teachers-realization-that-literacy-is-changing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Our schools need skilled and insightful IT leaders. Unfortunately, school leaders don’t always know how to recognize them.

@malin Yes! But let’s be careful of the folks we take as authorities.

Authority says so is the worst reason to believe anything.

If you can’t describe what is wrong with your idea, your claims of what is right with it are not worth attention.

Science is self-regulating. Science depends on logic and observation. Society has much to learn from science.

When we agree on what we mean, communication is easier. Finding agreement in natural science is easier than it used to be in fields like education.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. -Charles Darwin

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life. - Charles Darwin

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
Charles Darwin

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley

"When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown." ~ Stephen Jay Gould

Frank Zappa was right... if you get offended by music, don't listen to it. Same can be said about books... don't like 'em? don't read them...they wer not written for you anyways,

A library full of books is wonderful, especially of the books include lots of titles that idiots want to ban,

"Computers should be in schools. They have the potential to accomplisg great things."
Sure... but potentiality is different from determining. .