Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Educators complain about the IT systems in schools, but they don’t understand the complexity of managing IT systems, the potential conflicts and threats to the operation of enterprise IT, and general chaos that can result when enterprise networks are not tightly controlled.

In schools IT professionals are managing devices for purposes they do not understand.

How We Protect Networks https://hackscience.education/2024/06/07/how-we-protect-networks/

Learning occurs within brains, but outside of brains too.

Another View of Technology Acceptance
https://hackscience.education/2019/10/01/another-video-of-technology-acceptance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

We become “smarter” through effort.

Some adults are uncomfortable with what educators do today, but they need to realize we are preparing students for their future, not someone else’s past.

Become agile. The path to sustainable operations in higher education is uncertain and dynamic. Once the path comes clear, it will become muddled.

By ensuring that technology systems are obtained, installed, properly configured and maintained; school and technology leaders are ensuring that facilitating conditions are met. When faculty are confident that facilitating conditions are sufficiently met, they are more likely to use technology in their work than when they are not.

What D’Arcy Thompson Said
https://hackscience.education/2019/09/30/what-darcy-thompson-said/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

While some students (ostensibly) meet the outcomes and earn credits for attending class, there is little chance they will change anything they do as a result of the course because they didn't really learn.

Hey students: You are ultimately responsible for your own learning and only by engaging with ideas and others will you learn. #teaching #learning #students #schools

Attacking science is not new. It is as dangerous now as it always has been.

If they can't be proven wrong, then they probably are not correct.

Hey IT users... No one from your IT department needs your password... ever.

Future of Work
https://hackscience.education/2019/09/25/future-of-work/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A new episode of my podcast dropped today:
https://rss.com/podcasts/apr/1511393/

Conceptually, networking is a rather simple process. Operationally, it is sophisticated and complex.

All the information that enters a computer, information that we perceive as text, images, video, or audio, or any mathematics operation or other manipulation that is done to that information is done by changing the bits that represent the information.

While lots of professionals may have educational expertise, if they are not involved with delivering lessons when students are present and actively using the information technology systems, then they cannot be included as educators in decision-making.