Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The most interesting uses of #technology arise when we find new uses... those not intended by the inventor. In biology, these are exaptations. So, to advance technology... adopt (start using new stuff), adapt (what you do to leverage technology), and exapt (to find new uses).

Technology is probably not deterministic, but it sure has lots of momentum going in a direction. #technology #TechEthics #tech #technologies #technology

As #technology becomes a collection of "black boxes" user neither understand not care to understand, they relinquish control to those who do.

Ultimately, #technology is about extending human senses and capabilities.

“I’m using the curriculum map and all of the resources, but man does if have a fresh coat of paint and it smells like lemon.” #school #teachers #education

“The best uses of #technology can only emerge [once we] recognize that new machines are not inevitable and their uses are not ordained.” -David Nye

This is true of #edtech

Work is a social practice. Production or service to meet a perceived or real need.

When you try to translate your existing practice into the “new paradigm,” you don’t understand either. #teaching #education

If the role of homework in your curriculum cannot be clearly and completely explained, then maybe you should reinvent it. #teaching #homework #education

Increases in productivity is used to increase workers’ wages, reduce consumers’ prices, increase profits. Two of the options are good for sustaining and growing society. The third (and recently most common) not so much.

Thoreau said, “men have become the tools of their tools.” I think he was on to something there. #technology

Science finds - industry applies - man conforms. Yeah, they had it about right in 1933. #technology

“Technology does not automatically create crushing uniformity and standardization....” -David Nye

It appears we humans do that.

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Conversation with a student: “We have four fantastic cats... and then this one other cat.”

Was Moore's Law a prediction or a target? #technology

Invention is often the mother of necessity. #technology #techforgood #technologydisruptions #innovation #InnovatorsMindset

"The best way to invent the future os to predict it--if you can get enough people to believe in your prediction, that is." _John Perry Barlow #technology #innvoation #leadership

#Invention (is the creation), #innovation (its improvement), #diffusion (its spread throughout users). To completely understand #technology and its influence, all three are essential. I am curious about how these are affected by political forces, esp. in #education #edleadership

"The machine cannot be divorced from its larger social pattern; for it is this pattern that gives it meaning and purpose." - Lewis Mumford #technology #society

“Social learning is visual theft.” No, I don’t think that is right. Theft implies you no longer have “it.” When I learn from you, you still have it. #sociallearning