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
A single test score does not tell us anything interesting or useful.
Scientists are always specific about what they are measuring, and there are accepted methods for measuring these quantities. Education is not the same.
Real data-driven folks understand that all measurements contain error.
Before ordering books, one should check their bookshelves.
How I Spent My Summer: Life Teaches a Teacher
https://hackscience.education/2018/04/25/how-i-spent-my-summer-life-teaches-a-teacher/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
I work in #edtech. I spend half of my time giving step-by-step directions for using tools and half of my time having those directions be ignored.
“We therefore give the word 'intelligence' to this wondrously complex and multifaceted set of human capabilities. This shorthand symbol is then reified and intelligence achieves a dubious status as a unitary thing”. - Stephen Jay Gould
Adults are trying to improve schools by looking towards their past; “what worked for me will work for them,” is the misguided reasoning.
If education was simply an engineering problem, it would have been solved decades ago
I graduated from high school and started my preparation to be an educator in 1983. That is the year A Nation at Risk was released. "Schools are failing" is not new.
Review of The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves
https://hackscience.education/2018/04/25/review-of-the-nature-of-technology-what-it-is-and-how-it-evolves/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
It seems educators cannot make any decision without some test scores to support it, and we can take no action unless it is going to result in some change that can be measured on a test.
Education is a technology that is built upon the natural phenomena of the human brain. Unfortunately, many who affect schools no nothings of how brains really work.
Sure, that philanthropist or business leader advising educators may have been an economic success. Let's not conflate that with understanding schools.
Yes, we education should prepare students to participate in economic life (i.e. get a job), but schools should not be job training institutions.
- 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
