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
"Computers cannot, however, replace all aspects of human cognition." I wrote this 10 years ago. I still believe it to be true, but the list is getting smaller.
What Steven Johnson Wrote About Popular Culture
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/11/what-steven-johnson-wrote-about-popular-culture/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
My first computer arrived on my desktop about 10 years before the Internet became available to consumers, so the only data in my computer were those that I created or those that I loaded using floppy disks.
Consider the overhead projector was presented as an educational innovation when I was a younger teacher.
Efforts to improve curriculum are usually focused on identifying new information that needs to be delivered; efforts to improve instruction focus primarily on improving the efficiency of information delivery. This is misguided in many cases.
Types of Professional Development: Awareness Presentation https://hackscience.education/2024/01/22/types-of-professional-development-awareness-presentation/
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.
- 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
