Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

"it's all inaccurate" is a sure sign it isn't.

At what point are you complicit in your employer's incompetence?

#edtech for #edleaders: Facilitating Conditions
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/01/edtech-for-edleaders-facilitating-conditions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Some Thoughts on Online Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/10/31/some-thoughts-on-online-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Observing is fine. Explaining is where we start tonight understand.

Libraries being described as “transgressive pleasures” is my new favorite thing.

Cheap, Good, Fast: Choose Two https://hackscience.net/2024/06/23/cheap-good-fast-choose-two/

How will we know if AI develops intentions?

When we are testing students (dialogistic or evaluative), we aren't teaching them.

Without search, the vast information resource we have available are useless. Generative AI is making search much more user friendly.

“I don’t care what the network lets me do, as long as I know what we can do and it works every time. Otherwise, I won’t trust it enough to plan my lessons around it.” That teacher's advice to school IT folks needs to be clearly understood.

Whereas access to mass media was controlled by the expense of printing or broadcasting a few decades ago, any of the two billion individuals who carry a smart phone can capture an image or video and publish it to a world-wide audience quickly (measured in seconds) and inexpensively (margin cost is near zero).

There is evidence that such periods during which one information technology replaces another that was dominant are marked by turmoil as social institutions adjust to new capabilities and new expectations; recent generation have been living at an extended period of change.

I have often wondered if my perception that I was not a strong math student was the result of the D that showed up on my report card in fourth grade; most of the students in my classes when I taught math perceived me to be a good math teacher, the data collected and reported about me as a child notwithstanding.

Ostensibly, data-driven education is undertaken in an attempt to apply the objective and reliable methods of science to education, thus remove doubt about what educators are doing.

In political discussions, it is often desired that participants agree. In order to reach compromise, participants in political debate can diverge from common understanding; while agreeing on the language, the participants disagree on the action being labeled.

Just as it is not appropriate to have a teacher providing network support, it is not appropriate to have a network administrator making educational decisions.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
-- Richard P. Feynman

In science, values include valid and reliable data and open sharing of data.

Schools are perpetually beginning new practices, and none is ever allowed to have deep influences on pedagogy and student experiences.