Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

"But my field is content-rich! I need to cover all of this!" Many teachers adopt a "fill their brains" approach to prepare students for the next year, but this method is no longer tenable. #Education #Teaching

Competition drives both business (fighting for market share) and politics (winners take office, losers return to the citizenry). Should this same competitive metric be applied to our schools?
No.

Business and politics are easily measured through profits and votes, making their results generally objective and unequivocal. Education isn't that simple! #Education #Measurement

EdTech professionals have a vital role in inclusivity. They must recommend, teach, and provide support for the tools that allow teachers to successfully meet accessibility checklists.

It's understandable that faculty might push back or view document accessibility tasks as "busy work," especially when their teaching environments have been upended. However, ensuring accessibility remains a vital part of the job.

A blog post, now with audio, focusing on measurements and education:
https://www.hackscience.education/business-and-politics-are-not-teaching-and-learning/
#schools #education

No institution can truly claim to be an inclusive community dedicated to equity if they are not taking their responsibility to create accessible materials seriously
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No amount of data satisfy those who do not want to be convinced.

If your primary role is to prevent problems from reaching your boss, you are not “part of the team” and your proposals will never get attention.

All generalizations (including those that are contradictory) are always accurate for a minority sub-population.

If every teaching problem can be solved with one tool, you don’t understand it. "it" is either the tool or teaching.

Just because you experienced it in school, does not mean every one did... or should... or even that you did it at all. Human memory is that bad.

Yeah... if you attend the "advanced" training, please avoid asking the presenter to show how to do "stuff" done in the "basic" training.

I used to write notes on paper in meetings in my own “scrawly” short-hand. I claim it was an analog encryption method.

Is delivering content and tracking views (which any worthy LMS can do well) teaching?

You don’t get #students to understand ideas by learning definitions of more terms.

What if education was based on building what doesn’t yet exist?

Taylorism was *not* designed for education.

A blog post, now with audio, on teaching information-rich fields:
https://www.hackscience.education/education-for-information-rich-fields/

“Observation is the only means for us to ascertain whether or not the picture that we formed is correct.”