Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Facts rarely proves on right or wrong.

Is it a quote or is it AI?

"We spent all morning installing the new productivity software, only to discover the best tool is still the coffee pot."

"Technology is a genie in a bottle; it grants us incredible wishes, but beware, for the bottle itself is made of our time and attention."

Did a human say it or did AI?

Active Learning Strategies
https://hackscience.education/2019/03/27/active-learning-strategies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Attempts to control for variables in classrooms is not possible. Unfortunately, we act as if we can.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

If students judge your ideas are not an improvement on theirs, students wil ignore them.

Conceptual understanding. Let's teach for it.

More on Learning Styles
https://hackscience.education/2019/03/21/more-on-learning-styles/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Any idea can be plausible, but that doesn't mean its true.

Hey folks.... maybe drop the attitude when asking for help.

Legitimate connection to the real world. Let's start here when designing curriculum.

When we think for others.... and maybe money... our thoughts become less valuable to the thinker.

Curriculum for individuals to learn. Curriculum for social thinking. Curriculum for situated cognition. Our students need 'em all.

Students arrive in classrooms with brains that are already adapted to digital media.

Updating UTAUT Instrument
https://hackscience.education/2019/03/21/updating-utaut-instrument/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

On Declarative Knowledge https://hackscience.net/2024/03/11/on-declarative-knowledge/

Watching #edtech-Using Students
https://hackscience.education/2019/03/14/watching-edtech-using-students/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“Let us stop tracking: no student is a winner” don’t you hate it when the evidence does not support your favorite intervention?

Your computer may not do everything better than you, but it remembers way better than you do.