Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

At the end of the rope, there's a little more rope
Most times.

James McMurtry has been the soundtrack of my life.

Fading. If you don't get past dependence on supports, they didn't work... is typical circumstances obviously.

Schools are unusual places to work, especially for those who like schedules and plans.

Observation is an excellent way to learn... if the curriculum is amendable.

We use language to internalize, thus our cognition moves from social phenomenon to psychological.

Yes... someone has been reading Vygotsky.

"Humans who can self-regulate are flexible and adaptable." Yeah, seems about right.

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov

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

Educators are exploring and using other strategies. These new methods can conflict with the concepts IT professionals have, and the IT for active learning classrooms is much more complicated and flexible than that for lecture-based classrooms.

If IT users don't use the system as it was designed, they have no right to complain.

Once an IT system is built, technicians must ensure teachers and others understand how to operate it.

Hey leaders... do you have a plan for when an "IT guy" is denied a promotion and walks of the job?

Schools are interesting and rewarding workplaces for IT professionals, but they can be challenging as well. The differences between business and industry and schools can make the strategies and methods they developed less effect than they might predict when applied in schools.

“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

“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops”
― Stephen J. Gould

People may not be motivated by money, but they do decline job offers when the pay is low.

On Working in Schools https://hackscience.net/2024/02/25/on-working-in-schools/

IT professionals in schools often undertake technology initiatives without complete consideration of the educational implications.

One of the most puzzling aspects of teaching for many adults to accept is that teaching is a much more interactive and dynamic activity than many experienced (or remember) or that they see in the popular culture.