Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
--Alvin Toffler

So many #edtech folks make a decision once, then repeat it. If we all did this, we'd still be blocking Wikipedia.

Video editing. This seems a sklll wort learning today.

Hey students... Write the paper. You write the paper. If is isn't good, ask your teacher how to make it better, Getting better at writing is one reason you enrolled in school.

Hey students... do the reading. Hey teachers... choose relevant and interesting texts.

To be a learner, you must engage with the curriculum.

Information Technology in Schools: An Emerging Rationale
https://hackscience.education/2019/10/30/information-technology-in-schools-an-emerging-rationale/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

In the decades I have been working with computers and students, I have found that students are very content following reasonable rules about computing that are well-explained to them. Explaining the potential threats is more effective than punishments when adults want to promote network security.

Data can become evidence only if it is reliable.

When it comes to students, the more time we spend measuring their skill the less skill they will have.

Humans are curious, interested, and effective learners... in the right environents.

My Extended Elevator Pitch on Managing #edtech
https://hackscience.education/2019/10/29/my-extended-elevator-pitch-on-managing-edtech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Educators assume tests and other types of assignments in which students restate when they have learned, or perhaps apply what they learned to familiar problems, are an accurate demonstration of what students learned. This is often false.

Dismissing disgraceful behavior by leaders. Lets stop doing that.

When we say “everyone has their own truth” we ignore the fact that what happens and how one interprets it are different. We can observe the save set of circumstances, interpret it differently, and both be correct.

We live in an environment of limitless data, some of it collected in reasonable ways, some of it collected in unreasonable ways, much of it just made up.

Reconsidering School Now That Generative AI Isn’t Going Away https://hackscience.education/2024/06/19/reconsidering-school-now-that-generative-ai-isnt-going-away/

My Elevator Pitch on Well-Managed Technology
https://hackscience.education/2019/10/28/my-elevator-pitch-on-well-managed-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
--Alvin Toffler

If educators can engage both the social brain with the cognitive brain, then students are more likely to learn and remember what we teach them.