Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ~ Steve Ballmer

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. - Stephen Jay Gould

Let's make password policy so complicated that no one can remember them, so they write them on sticky notes attached to their displays.

Does anyone have research supporting x?
Where x is a popular educational practice.
The answer is often “no.”

Edtech for Edleaders: Whom to Hire- CIO
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/20/edtech-for-edleaders-who-to-hire-cio/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Maybe you actually answer the question before closing the ticket.

Edtech for Edleaders: Capacity of Computing Devices
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/20/edtech-for-edleaders-capacity-of-computing-devices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Schools, the institutions we have adopted for teaching, are a rather recent human invention, and may not be the best. Scholars have documented how teaching occurs in societies other than school and found some similarities, but much that western schools have ignored.

The Problem with Data
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/18/the-problem-with-data/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Students’ motivation, their cultural expectations, the interactions they have with peers, and the interactions they have with faculty and other educators are all important factors in how and what students learn.

Significant problems that we use to focus instruction should require understanding of concepts and be contextualized by a situation perceived to be relevant and authentic by students.

Humans behave differently after they have learned. They can perceive things they could not perceive before; they can state things they could not state before, they can solve things they could not solved before, and they can.

I work in #edtech. When I respond to some calls for help, I wonder "do these people call the librarian when the book is open to the wrong page?"

Epistemology is Not a “Four-Lettered” Word 2: Simplicity
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/14/epistemology-is-not-a-four-lettered-word-2-simplicity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

School IT users are notorious when it comes to support. There are the students and teachers who believe they can fix any problems and they try. Others will not attempt any troubleshooting and will call for technicians whenever anything goes wrong.

For many decisions about what to install and how to configure it, school IT professionals must engage educators and others, but the proper configuration of networks must be entirely left to IT professionals.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. - Eric Hoffer

"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer was right.

Edtech for IT: Learning Management Systems – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/11/01/edtech-for-it-learning-management-systems/

Edtech for Edleaders: Routing & Switching
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/13/edtech-for-edleaders-routing-switching/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon