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
“We learn by living.” This reality is difficult to hear as an educator.
I have an acquaintance who was often asked to post to employers’ web site and do other work after hours. Starting today, they must click in and out. Their employer was flabbergasted to hear they will no longer work after hours.
Innovators are just malcontents with fancy toys.
Science both adds new discoveries and refines current knowledge.
Science doesn’t reject all authority or intuition. It only rejects that which is contrary to observation.
Events do have causes, but the causes are often unknown, mistaken, or misinterpreted.
I once had a conversation with a person who truly thought gay marriage was going to adversely affect her family. She could not identify a mechanism that the harm would happen, but she was vehement it would.
“Learning outcomes” sound worthy, but it’s a vapid concept.
Yeah… All Curriculum… It’s Political
https://hackscience.education/2023/06/28/yeah-all-curriculum-its-political/
How common is the “non-aggression pact” between teachers and students?
Teachers don’t ask much if students, and students don’t expect much of teachers?
Today I heard “you want to increase perceived value which is the value that is perceived to have been added.”
The worst part is I don’t think AI wrote the script.
College is perceived as a “magical mystery tour” is perhaps the most accurate (and cutting) thing I’ll read all summer.
College is perceived as a “magical mystery tour” is perhaps the most accurate (and cutting) thing I’ll read all summer.
Many problems can be solved, but powerful people benefit from them.
It seems we no longer differentiate less and fewer.
Rubrics are cheat sheets for teachers when they are grading.
Teaching requires finding the right combination of giving students what they think they and giving them what you think they need.
Factors Affecting Diffusion of Innovation
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/29/factors-affecting-diffusion-of-innovation/
- 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
