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
Marketing plans targeting internal audiences are a sign (to me) of failure, or at least the need to convince ourselves we are successful despite evidence.
“This really works well.”
Sure, but your definition of “well” is misguided at best.
When things are too familiar, humans don’t pay attention. Plan some variety into your lessons, units, courses.
“Science collects isolated bits of reality.” Does it? Does it really?
Yeah, AI helps me do some things, but but the really interesting things are not among them.
Look at what your students create. Would anyone other than you care to look at it? If the answer is "no," then maybe you revise your plans,
Downloading Cognition to Digital Devices
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/22/downloading-cognition-to-digital-devices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Experts make the least accurate predictions.
Did anyone learn anything before grades? Standards? Outcomes? Objectives?
“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
― Stephen Jay Gould
If you have only one way to explain it can you be an “expert?”
Communication, analysis, problem solving... wouldn't it be cool if all schools helped students demonstrate these skills in multiple ways?
If is often better for leaders to not ask advice, especially in public. When they get good advice, then act in an opposite manner, they end up looking the fool.
"Because you will need it next year" is the worst possible answer.
Teachers must have their students' best interest in mind as they act. Sometimes they delude themselves about what is in their best interest.
Rather than demonstrating an idea is true, scientists demonstrate and idea is false.
Before scientists accept an observation, it must be observed by others.
All disputes in science are resolved by evidence and observation, and evidence and observation must follow the rules of logic.
- 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
