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
Frequently, the goals of the technology leaders and technicians who are responsible for installing and managing networks are opposite to the goals of the educators.
It takes a special kind if hubris to think you know what your students will need.
Define "learning" in very simple terms and it is very easy to measure it. Define it in a meaningful way and you cannot measure it
It'd be great is we all valued valid and reliable data, logic, and reason.
"Education has been built on the assumption that educators know how to transmit curriculum into students’ brains." Firs tof all we do not transmit curriculum. Second, even if we wanted to, we don't know how to.
Just becasue yiu really want it to be true does not make it so.
“The impulse is to keep moving to newer and niftier ‘gadgets’ without learning thoroughly from what worked and what did not” is strong in #edtech
Schools are perpetually beginning new practices, and none is ever allowed to have deep influences on pedagogy and student experiences.
Hey politicians, philanthropists, business leaders, parent, and others who want to affect school policy... maybe your learn about learning (real learning--you know how brains works, not your preconceived notions) before you start spouting off.
Humans are social and communicative creatures.
RT Prof. Feynman: Ignorance is more expensive than education.
My tip when interviewing... if all of their answers sound like answers you would give, hire another candidate.
Look at your colleagues' bookshelves, if you see only familiar titles, more colleagues.
Standardized solutions in agriculture, medicine, education, and similar systems give the illusion of working, but will fail... often in a spectacular manner.
"We want skills, not diversity" can be translated as "we are content to fail."
Technology is boring. What folks do with it is interesting.
A Little #edtech History: Computers Arrive on Desktops
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/09/a-little-edtech-history-computers-arrive-on-desktops/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
"Use this technology, it will let you accomplish x." This is rarely true, but it proves terrific at accomplishing y.
In 1956, there were 570 computers installed in the USA. Seems about right.
- 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
