Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

one thing I learned during 30 years in classrooms: If products in classroom resemble products in the real world, students will engage with the work.

Remembering and recreating information when directed is a unless skill, using it for pragmatic, critical, and creative purposes is useful.

Teaching the curriculum in a context so it is connected to other curriculum, students' experience , and their future identities is more effective than much of our teaching.

Every Halloween I think about the librarian colleague who made a “creepy books” display and featured my book in the middle of it.

Reflexivity: Teachers and Technology
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/06/reflexivity-teachers-and-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Multitasking
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/05/multitaksing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Edtech for Edleaders: Learning Management Systems Defined
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/05/edtech-for-edleaders-learning-management-systems-defined/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Edtech for Edleaders: Wireless Networks (wifi)
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/04/edtech-for-edleaders-wireless-networks-wifi/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Papert’s Three Phases of Educational Technology
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/01/paperts-three-phases-of-educational-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Edtech for Edleaders: Choose Two
https://hackscience.education/2018/05/31/edtech-for-edleaders-choose-two/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“If nothing changes, nothing changes” is an observation on actions and outcomes… an accurate observation.

“Pretty soon we strive for the grade, not the learning.” This has been reality for far longer than we admit.

It’s not all technology we reject, only the new technology.

“If teachers can be replaced by computers, they should be.” Yeah… I can’t really argue against that observation.

Some things we spend lots of time and energy doing in classrooms have little effect on what students learn.

Here’s your regular reminder that Taylor was working in manufacturing, not education.

“If we cannot comprehend the truth, we become trapped in conventional falsehoods and false choices, unable to envision new possibilities.” -Robert Reich

Systemic dysfunction. Yup… can’t argue against that.

The solution is rarely within the existing system.

Self delusion. If we could reduce it, we might have a chance.