Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
Some students are not eating so they can buy textbooks... for your class.
What Mark Deuze Wrote About Navigating a World Dominated by Digital Media
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/14/what-mark-deuze-wrote-about-navigating-a-world-dominated-by-digital-media/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Task completion goals are behavioristic; students may be completing the tasks as specified, but there is little attention paid to the purpose of the tasks or the use of the lesson beyond the immediate need to complete the task.
Causes and effects are not clearly bounded and the connections between them are incompletely and inaccurately known.
It is through well-developed tacit knowledge that humans understand which problems to solve and how to apply the capacity of technology to solve problems and how to interpret ambiguous results.
An important aspect of navigating the information task landscape is recognizing the difference between tasks well suited for technology and those well suited for humans. Well-designed curriculum will provide learners with experience applying technology as appropriate, developing and refining the human-only capacities, and understanding of the differences.
"Computers cannot, however, replace all aspects of human cognition." I wrote this 10 years ago. I still believe it to be true, but the list is getting smaller.
What Steven Johnson Wrote About Popular Culture
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/11/what-steven-johnson-wrote-about-popular-culture/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
My first computer arrived on my desktop about 10 years before the Internet became available to consumers, so the only data in my computer were those that I created or those that I loaded using floppy disks.
Consider the overhead projector was presented as an educational innovation when I was a younger teacher.
Efforts to improve curriculum are usually focused on identifying new information that needs to be delivered; efforts to improve instruction focus primarily on improving the efficiency of information delivery. This is misguided in many cases.
Types of Professional Development: Awareness Presentation https://hackscience.education/2024/01/22/types-of-professional-development-awareness-presentation/
Frequently, the goals of the technology leaders and technicians who are responsible for installing and managing networks are opposite to the goals of the educators.
It takes a special kind if hubris to think you know what your students will need.
Define "learning" in very simple terms and it is very easy to measure it. Define it in a meaningful way and you cannot measure it
It'd be great is we all valued valid and reliable data, logic, and reason.
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
