Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

On Electronic Portfolios
https://hackscience.education/2019/08/16/on-electronic-portfolios/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Experience thinking critically, creatively, and practically about complex problems and their potential solutions... let's do that in school

What if students actively access their learning and do not believe the test results?

Maybe students frame complex problems and solve them (or attempt to solve them) rather than only learning about the problems.

When I started with computers (1982 or so), they told me GIGO. Recent observation suggests it’s still true.

It’s unfortunate that so many leaders never question their IT folks. I get why you don’t, but it is terrifically irresponsible.

A Short Rant on the Future of Education
https://hackscience.education/2019/08/15/a-short-rant-on-the-future-of-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“I will rejoice in the multifariousness of nature and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

#edtech for IT: Diagnostic Testing https://hackscience.net/2024/05/14/edtech-for-it-diagnostic-testing/

Years ago, I realized all judgements of my abilities to teach were going to be grounded in how my students performed on a single test. My job search began immediately.

“I’d prefer it to be true” is not evidence.

Teleological language when describing natural selection annoys me. It is so inaccurate and gives folks a false sense of how it works.

Competence over Compliance
https://hackscience.education/2019/08/14/competence-over-compliance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

We expect politicians to argue against straw men. When folks posing at academics do it, it is troubling.

“Everything is a technology.” Really? Many things can be applied to human purposes, but that doesn’t make them all technology.

Here is your reminder that technology you find comfortable may not be effective.

Substantive questions belong in the curriculum.

What happens when learning outside the classroom becomes more relevant to students?

Curriculum intended to teach everyone everything is too broad to teach anything.

Teachers and Mindsets
https://hackscience.education/2019/08/13/teachers-and-mindsets/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon