Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I’ve been critical of organizations where I work for 40 years. For me, it’s been a way to reflect on what we do and how we do it. Things are worse in education today than they ever have been.

One things I learned during 35 years in education: While “struggle” is a necessary component of learning, too much struggle leads to frustration which inhibits learning, and teachers cannot judge the difference as well as they think they can.

One things I learned during 35 years in education: The more experience students have in laboratories, workshops, studios, and similar spaces, the better their education. #education #teaching #schools

Just because "the boss" wants it does not mean its a good idea. This is especially true in #education .

Edtech for Edleaders: What We Want in IT Systems
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/22/edtech-for-edleaders-what-we-want-in-it-systems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

II work in #edtech. 'm always skeptical of IT applicants who cannot describe how school populations are different from business users.

What Larry Cuban Said About Technology is (Discouragingly) Still Accurate
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/21/what-larry-cuban-said-about-technology-is-discouragingly-still-accurate/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Let's introduce folks to AI by showing them some interesting things that can be done with it" becomes "let's read from slides" when a specific type of teacher becomes involved.

"Writing a curriculum" and "copying the table of contents" are synonymous to some.

Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out

The Talking Heads were right

When evaluating information, we can allow individuals to hold contrary opinions, but those need to be evaluated against empirical evidence and those that are not supported by those observations must be rejected from the public discourse and decision-making.

Epistemology is Not a “Four-Lettered” Word 3: Authority
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/21/epistemology-is-not-a-four-lettered-word-3-authority/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It seems our culture has suffered a disintegration of the quality of the information we use in the last generation. Reason is waning. Hypocrisy is waxing. Rationality is rejected.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ~ Steve Ballmer

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. - Stephen Jay Gould

@mguhlin My copy of Visible Learning arrived yesterday!

Let's make password policy so complicated that no one can remember them, so they write them on sticky notes attached to their displays.

Does anyone have research supporting x?
Where x is a popular educational practice.
The answer is often “no.”

Edtech for Edleaders: Whom to Hire- CIO
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/20/edtech-for-edleaders-who-to-hire-cio/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Maybe you actually answer the question before closing the ticket.