Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Learning is a vastly more complex phenomenon than is allowed in the popular culture and in many classrooms.

The imposition of one’s preferred method of instruction on all teachers in all subjects who teach all populations of students is something school leaders should avoid. They don't, but they should.

Long division is a technology... its is a soft technology... but a technology nonetheless. There is nothing special about it, except that you were taught it when we did not have better technology.

Education is reluctant to accept that humans vary.

It is the questions, not the clickers. #edtech

Maybe we start asking what can AI do that we can’t? It seems that is the really useful thing we have done with technology.

If human brains create consciousness through electrical activity in neural circuits, why is it unreasonable to think it can result from similar activity in silicon circuits?

Know that is pretty boring. Know how is more interesting.

Let’s Diversify Computer Education
https://hackscience.net/2024/04/06/lets-diversify-computer-education/

One of the most surprising realizations for adults who begin working in schools is that what is taught is not what they were taught or what they think should be taught.

Hey #edtech Do you decisions expand the opportunities for students and teachers?
I know your answered , "yes."
Now, go ask them... and believe the answers.

I am one of those IT folks who blocked Wikipedia on the school network until I realized what I had done. That event has affected by #edtech decision making since.

How do we encourage bricolage in AI?

My son rewrote his resume using AI. He used it in the way he "should." He wrote prompts based on his experience and kept the accurate stuff and edited it. This is just the way that made sense to him to use it. Maybe we trust folks to use tools.

A Secret About Curriculum and a Message for Students https://hackscience.net/2024/04/02/a-secret-about-curriculum-and-a-message-for-students/

Message to those who speak to every question or issue in a meeting: No one is listening to you.

"Creating your own reality" just know that others will reject it, and distance themselves from you if it contradicts reality.

How experts apply knowledge in their lives is important to teach, but so is how it can improve students' lives and their decison-making.

I heard through the grapevine that a former student interviewed for a job as an IT professional. My names came up as individuals on the team know me and knew the connection. The candidate praised my classes (close to 15 years ago) as I designed them to give students experience with lots of devices and systems. Doing so wasn't in the standards, but I did it anyways. Apparently , it served them well.

The Paradox of Knowledge
https://hackscience.education/2019/05/24/the-paradox-of-knowledge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon