Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

On Test and Assessments… A Meandering Response to a Social Media Push https://hackscience.net/2024/01/16/on-test-and-assessments-a-meandering-response-to-a-social-media-push/

Effects of IT on Teachers and Learners: Speed and Innovation
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/02/effects-of-it-on-teachers-and-learners-speed-and-innovation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@freeschool 1- Y, 2-Y, 3-Y
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@freeschool Thanks for the poke to get me to respond :)

I am getting older and have worked in fields where they has been "controversy." Early on, my interest as an undergraduate was science education, specifically issues like evolution/ creationism, addressing pseudoscience, etc. Later in life, I have been interested in responding to myths in education (e.g. learning styles).

What I have learned is that many ideas that are seen as "cutting edge" by a new generation were throughly debunked in earlier generations (Stephen Jay Gould's response the The Bell Curve is a favorite example).

How we respond to tired old ideas matters. I am hopeful a new generation will push back on them, because I am trying to use my time left to explore what makes me curious.

The officiating in professional sports is terrible.

What is “Good” Technology-Rich Teaching?
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/02/what-is-good-technology-rich-teaching/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

IThe best part of buying and reading used books is the marginalia.

"Im being treated unfairly" can most often be interpreted as "people don
t believe my dumb ideas."

Technology that does something human-like is boring... we probably do it better. Technology that expandes and enhances our capabilities... that is interesting.

Unprejudiced observers don’t exist.

A Teacher’s Realization that Literacy is Changing
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/01/a-teachers-realization-that-literacy-is-changing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Our schools need skilled and insightful IT leaders. Unfortunately, school leaders don’t always know how to recognize them.

@malin Yes! But let’s be careful of the folks we take as authorities.

Authority says so is the worst reason to believe anything.

If you can’t describe what is wrong with your idea, your claims of what is right with it are not worth attention.

Science is self-regulating. Science depends on logic and observation. Society has much to learn from science.

When we agree on what we mean, communication is easier. Finding agreement in natural science is easier than it used to be in fields like education.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. -Charles Darwin

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life. - Charles Darwin

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
Charles Darwin