Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Too many "data-driven" folks are forget we need a casual explanation.

Good scientific theory allows us to explain cause and effect relationships, and thus to make predictions: If we do A, it will cause B, because of this mechanism.

Timeline of Updating Teachers’ Practice
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/19/timeline-of-updating-teachers-practice/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Together we learn... Divided we don't.

knowing is a social process as much as it is a cognitive process

By challenging themselves and their own understanding from the students' perspective, teacher become learners.

Too often teachers simply repeat their original explanation, only slower, in hopes that students will understand.

Everyone is smarter than I am... you just to choose the right field... and there are lots and lots of them.

Seven Principles of Good Instruction
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/17/seven-principle-of-good-instruction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

The Coming Revolution in Education
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/16/the-coming-revolution-in-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"I must become convinced there is a compelling reason to adopt technology before I introduce it to my students." Try adopting this approach.

"I was thoroughly unimpressed with computers while a high school student,." That was more than 40 yers ago. My impressions have changed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-fossils-reveal-dinosaurs-lost-worlds/

"We are dedicated to accessibility."

Then why don't you use microphones?

What Small and Vorgan Wrote About Brains and Technology
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/14/what-small-and-vorgan-wrote-about-brains-and-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Some have concluded that the Internet-connected computer represents the realization of John Milton’s Areopagitica-- the ability to speak without censorship.

Writing and print is associated with empowerment of those who are skilled users of writing, and the marginalization of those who are illiterate or less skilled readers and writers.

"In the 1980’s recreation computer users were writing programs to satisfy their own interests and curiosities, and the mythical “computer nerd” emerged (and that stereotype was largely based in the reality of the population who used computers)." I was there. This is accurate.

Technology must be appropriately designed , properly configured. reasonably supported. If it fails to meet any of these conditions, then it cannot function, but unless it meets all three then it cannot function.