Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Edtech for Edleaders: Capacity of Computing Devices
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/20/edtech-for-edleaders-capacity-of-computing-devices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Schools, the institutions we have adopted for teaching, are a rather recent human invention, and may not be the best. Scholars have documented how teaching occurs in societies other than school and found some similarities, but much that western schools have ignored.

The Problem with Data
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/18/the-problem-with-data/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Students’ motivation, their cultural expectations, the interactions they have with peers, and the interactions they have with faculty and other educators are all important factors in how and what students learn.

Significant problems that we use to focus instruction should require understanding of concepts and be contextualized by a situation perceived to be relevant and authentic by students.

Humans behave differently after they have learned. They can perceive things they could not perceive before; they can state things they could not state before, they can solve things they could not solved before, and they can.

I work in #edtech. When I respond to some calls for help, I wonder "do these people call the librarian when the book is open to the wrong page?"

Epistemology is Not a “Four-Lettered” Word 2: Simplicity
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/14/epistemology-is-not-a-four-lettered-word-2-simplicity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

School IT users are notorious when it comes to support. There are the students and teachers who believe they can fix any problems and they try. Others will not attempt any troubleshooting and will call for technicians whenever anything goes wrong.

For many decisions about what to install and how to configure it, school IT professionals must engage educators and others, but the proper configuration of networks must be entirely left to IT professionals.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. - Eric Hoffer

"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer was right.

Edtech for IT: Learning Management Systems – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/11/01/edtech-for-it-learning-management-systems/

Edtech for Edleaders: Routing & Switching
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/13/edtech-for-edleaders-routing-switching/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Epistemology is Not a “Four-Lettered” Word #1: Certainty of Knowledge
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/12/epistemology-is-not-a-four-lettered-word-1-certainty-of-knowledge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RT Prof. Feynman: Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings.

One thing I learned as a grad student… asking “why?” or “how do you know?” until you are annoying everyone (including yourself) means you are almost there.

RT Paul Thomas: A library is not a required reading list.

A library is a potential reading list that honors and allows human choice and agency guaranteed to a free people in a democracy regardless of means or station in life

RT @InfiDale3476: The theory of evolution is just a theory…

A theory with more evidence to support it than almost any other theory.

Edtech for Edleaders: What Computers Do
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/11/edtech-for-edleaders-what-computers-do/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon