Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

By ensuring that technology systems are obtained, installed, properly configured and maintained; school and technology leaders are ensuring that facilitating conditions are met. When faculty are confident that facilitating conditions are sufficiently met, they are more likely to use technology in their work than when they are not.

What D’Arcy Thompson Said
https://hackscience.education/2019/09/30/what-darcy-thompson-said/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

While some students (ostensibly) meet the outcomes and earn credits for attending class, there is little chance they will change anything they do as a result of the course because they didn't really learn.

Hey students: You are ultimately responsible for your own learning and only by engaging with ideas and others will you learn. #teaching #learning #students #schools

Attacking science is not new. It is as dangerous now as it always has been.

If they can't be proven wrong, then they probably are not correct.

Hey IT users... No one from your IT department needs your password... ever.

Future of Work
https://hackscience.education/2019/09/25/future-of-work/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A new episode of my podcast dropped today:
https://rss.com/podcasts/apr/1511393/

Conceptually, networking is a rather simple process. Operationally, it is sophisticated and complex.

All the information that enters a computer, information that we perceive as text, images, video, or audio, or any mathematics operation or other manipulation that is done to that information is done by changing the bits that represent the information.

While lots of professionals may have educational expertise, if they are not involved with delivering lessons when students are present and actively using the information technology systems, then they cannot be included as educators in decision-making.

Whereas school and technology leaders were once concerned with installing desktop computers with appropriate software installed on them, then they were concerned with installing high-speed internet connections in each instructions space; today, we find them securing access to cloud-based computing systems and connecting to them with a variety of devices.

On Cooperation
https://hackscience.education/2019/09/23/on-cooperation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

For several thousand years, we have been downloading some of our cognition to tools.

It is reasonable to conclude that humans and their technologies cannot be separated.

If your data can be displayed on pie charts alone, I am going to question the dept of your analysis,

“We schedule lots of professional development, but teachers are still struggling to use technology in their classrooms.” The things school leaders admit when they think no one is listening.

“Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.” Socrates was right, but admitting you don’t know is the first step.

Being open minded and being hoodwinked are different things.