Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Cognitive Load Theory
https://hackscience.education/2018/03/08/cognitive-load-theory/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If your response to a question is just “sharing resources” (you know the same ones you have been sharing for 5 years… that list with the dead links), then you are not really doing your job.

I work in school IT. I spend my time giving individual instructions to faculty who don’t attend the workshops. Those are the same faculty who complain students don’t attend class.

Facts change. Some things we once thought were wrong. That’s the way knowledge works. Deal with it.

Having an opinion is fine, but if you don’t change it when evidence changes, then you are wasting it.

There is a difference between “listening to those with opposite views” and “wasting time listening to quacks with tired arguments.” One is worth the time, the other is not.

Four Prepositions Framing #edtech
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/28/four-prepositions-framing-edtech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

ISBN’s and Citation Management Software
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/26/isbns-and-citation-management-software/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“There is nothing more common than a fool with a good memory.”

I’ve had reason to chat with folks about my childhood lately. Back when my father who was a high school graduate and drove a truck for a living could afford to raise a family.

Seriously. Stop posting videos of you ranting in your car.

What the Tofflers Wrote About Rates of Change
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/20/what-the-tofflers-wrote-about-rates-of-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Incremental change in organizations takes so long that it is abandoned before any effects are observed.

If you allow folks (students included) to set their own goals, you must accept them.

The degree to which teachers reject interventions that are really just good teaching methods because of the name applied to them (UDL is an example) is shameful.

“What do we mean by x?” It gets tiresome to answer thus question all the time, but it is necessary that we do.

Facts can be corrected. Myths cannot.

Frameworks Defined
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/20/frameworks-defined/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I quit vegetable gardening because the rabbits always ate everything. This year, my neighbor had his first garden and the rabbits left it alone. Also, the foxes had been seen more this summer than usual.