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
I’ve worked in education for decades. I have honed the skill of recognizing when folks are delusional in their rationalization of situations. I honed the skill watching adults not youngsters.
Making predictions as a teacher is not problematic; believing we know exactly what students will need, and basing those beliefs on our own past experience is problematic.
If we don’t decide what is reality first, then we probably won’t change anything.
Your credibility as a teacher matters. Students gotta see you as effective.
Prevention is worth it.
Engaging stories, challenges to authority, creating contradictory explanations, reconciling disparities are all reasons writers write.
Using ChatGPT, one gets a sense of participating in a Turing Test in which the domain is high school essays.
It seems our culture has suffered a disintegration of the quality of the information we use in the last generation. Reason is waning. Hypocrisy is waxing. Rationality is rejected.
Is it AI or a real quote?
“In the binary symphony of life, technology plays the electric violin—sometimes hitting the right note, other times sparking chaos. But hey, at least it never asks for sheet music.”
Problems also provide students with experience solving problem with critical thinking (making decisions about the appropriateness and completeness of their solutions), creativity (using existing knowledge in new ways or reframing the problem in a new way), and practically (using knowledge to create solutions that are needed and that are deployed).
Earn a doctorate and you will lose all hope of finding the correct answer to what interests you.
We know that WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic) perspectives dominate in social expectations.
“Although instructionist approaches may have value for the routine conduct of instruction, they are barriers to the more open-ended approach that education for a knowledge society requires.”
“I never really knew it until I taught it.”. Teachers know this to be true.
Elevator Pitch on Changing Nature of Education https://hackscience.net/2024/03/24/elevator-pitch-on-changing-nature-of-education/
If we could agree on what it is important for students to know, we’d be almost there.
If all students need us superficial knowledge, then the teacher doesn’t really need to be an expert. I’d much rather have classes taught by experts.
- 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
