Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Worth a read! #Edtech has changed. I’m wondering what might be abandoned.

https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/schools-must-resist-big-edtech

I ended up back in the classroom near the end of my k-12 career. I pushed back on all of the silly practices recommended by instructional coaches, and I shared research articles and my supporting my “push back.” They were happy to see me finally retire.

I met with a faculty member to “fix my gradebook” in the LMS. It became clear immediately the instructor had no idea what they was asking their students to to this term. No wonder students were confused.

The degree to which flexibility characterizes effective classrooms is overlooked in my opinion.

@daltonfunbar I’m going to try to get one of my ESL colleagues to join Mastodon and connect with you.

If you can’t tell me what’s wrong with your plan, I’m not going to trust what you say is right about it.

@daltonfunbar The correct answer to your question is “it depends.” If we really want students to “know” the matetial, they must experience it from different perspectives (eg. learn computations and problem solving and framing and application and questioning and analysis… in math). There is no one strategy that will work for each as the learning is different in each. In my experience the best classrooms are the one in which teaching varies.

Look at the curriculum & instruction. If it is grounded in telling and testing, be skeptical of the practitioners. Cognitive and learning science has taught us lots in recent decades, if educators don’t know those lessons, they will be ineffective.

Education is about changing humans. When our students leave our classrooms, we expect they can do things, see things, and think things they could not before the class. If our students leave with their abilities unchanged, then they (and we) have wasted their time and energy and money while there.
#edutooter #education #teaching

John Dewey wrote education is not preparation for life, it is life itself. While this may be true, many students enroll in higher education to be better prepared for the profession they will enter after they graduate. It seems reasonable, then, that educators should take steps to ensure their students can use what they learn in the classroom in other settings as well. #edutooter #education #highered

@jgg Please call the help desk. They have directions.

@jgg Fid you submit a help ticket?

I work in IT. I spend all day trying to figure out what people mean in their incomplete and typo-ridden emails.

I work in IT.
I will edit the announcement in which “board of trustees” is abbreviated “BOT” as in “click here to join the BOT meeting.”
We don’t want anyone associating bots with something safe to click.

Abandon topics and outcomes for questions. It will improve your teaching and students’ learning.

@actualham One of my adult children is working in Hawaii until next summer. No gifts for us either! I too sense the joy.

Increasingly I understand learning as a network process. We add nodes, create new connections, and strengthen or weaken others.

@metaning yeah, this one hit close to home today!