Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Many times I have sat in interviews with school administrators to fill technology positions (both interviewing with them and being interviewed by them) and come to the harsh realization they have no idea what the questions or answers are about.

Sometimes it is not you message we are rejecting, it is the snotty attitude with which you deliver it.

Few events were more interesting to me an an educator than watching a kindergarten students present her project on cats to the local college president.... just after hearing a teacher tell me kindergarten students can't do independent projects.

ADA Compliance
https://hackscience.education/2019/03/29/ada-compliance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

What to see the real purpose of a technology? Give it to users and get out of the way.

Let's normalize cutting the microphone of those in the "I have more of a comment than a question" crowd.

"“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders... ' Cliff Stoll forgot to include higher education administrators.

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.