Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Learning happens when teachers and students form positive relationships. Rarely does it happen otherwise.

Technology has perfect memory. At least compared to human memory it is perfect.

Good things can happen when we think together.

Multimedia Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/04/16/multimedia-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

We have capacity to solve much more complex problems when working together compared to when we work alone, but we also have greater capacity to deceive ourselves.

Is it real or AI?
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Is it real or AI?
"A true leader never stops moving."

If you resort to hyperbole, you are trying to control the conversation .

Is it a real quote or AI?
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way."

“Genius has as many components as the mind itself.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

Data Sources for Understanding #edtech
https://hackscience.education/2019/04/10/data-sources-for-understanding-edtech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Competence tends to be demonstrated in generalized skills that can be applied to many problems within a field of study and that can be applied to problems in other fields. It is more valuables than the compliance we usually measure in school.

Bricolage is a term that refers to one’s openness to exploring new technologies and tools, We should teach it more.

The language used by humans to describe experience is a very important source of data, and that textual data gathered through qualitative research methods can be used to explain social phenomena as well as quantitative data can be used to explain phenomena in the natural sciences.

Different problems require different data, which require different methods.

Instructional Engineering versus Sociocultural Instruction Design
https://hackscience.education/2019/04/09/instructional-engineering-versus-sociocultural-instruction-design/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When a solution is defined such that one subpopulation finds it satisfactory but another finds it abhorrent; implementation leads to some being winners and others being losers. It is much more frequent than leaders admit.

Neil Postman, summarized the comprehensive influences of technology on human cognition: “New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the nature of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop” (1993, 20) (emphasis in the original).

Toxic stress is a constant and high levels of stress that many children experience today.

Positives stress results from individuals taking safe, but significant risks and pushing  their limits of performance.