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
If your IT department is always saying “no,” it’s the leader’s fault. #IT #technology #leadership #edtech
If your IT isn’t useful, you are wasting money. #edtech #technology #leadership
If your IT isn’t sustainable, you are wasting money.
"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
-Alvin Toffler
“That's another trouble with education as we now have it. People think of education as something that they can finish.”
― Isaac Asimov
Look at the computing devices your students can access. If they are all the same, someone isn't doing their job.
Earlier this spring, I presented a paper on how we have redesigned a TV broadcasting studio into a multimedia studio. I describe the theories that supporter our work. Check it out:
https://bit.ly/4aCLWE4
By approaching ethics as a design process, leaders recognize that all decisions are based on incomplete information.
We do security audits of IT systems, but we never do audits of how they operate and interact. Maybe we should start.
No IT leader wants their systems to be unsatisfactory to users. If they behave as if they do, then get them help.
The familiarity that comes from recent experience cannot be confused with better performance, especially when dealing with technology.
The greatest hidden cost of upgrading technology is changing the habits of users.
A new episode of my podcast dropped:
https://rss.com/podcasts/apr/1496509/
“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
― Charles Darwin
Like all human creations, education has a history and the future of education is contingent on that history.
In describing education as a social invention, Jerome Bruner observed, “each generation must define afresh the nature, direction, and aims of education to assure [that] freedom and rationality can be attained for a future generation."
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge...."
― Charles Darwin,
- 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
