Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

On #edtech Audits
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/14/on-edtech-audits/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The web is built using protocols and rules that are available to anyone to use without the need to pay anyone or seek any one's permission. It kind of argues against "propriety ensures invention."

Universality is one feature of the web that allows for innovation; anyone can create a service on the web that can then be connected and reconnected by anyone.

In organizations that comprise adult users who have very specific data and resource needs and reasonably well-developed keyboarding and language skills, security and other policies that ensure high functionality pose little obstacle to technology acceptance. I schools that is not always true.

"The slow progress in modifying curriculum and instruction to reflect the emerging IT-rich world has been a theme in the educators’ professional literature for decades."

This is not wrong.

Shared dogma is often confused with objectivity.

Exercise and Authenticity
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/13/exercise-and-authenticity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I have the (well-deserved) reputation of being very accurate with predictions about decisions leaders will make. When asked "how do you know"? I respond, ""I always predict they will make the worst choice they have."

Generative AI came along just as we were running out of things to waste time doing online.

Being able to use working definitions show much more understanding than repeating textbook definitions,

Few technologies have disappeared more completely than Skype.

During my decades in education, I honed the ability to identify teachers who dislike students and leaders who dislike teachers. Both group are far more common than you would think.

A Brief History of Computers in Schools
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/11/a-brief-history-of-computers-in-schools/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Ive worked in schools since1988.I have yet to work in a school where the students' observations of faculty, leadership, and culture were no spot-on.

It is so tiresome when leaders actions don't align with their words.

We almost made a data-informed decision until "everyone knew" it was wrong;

In 1493, Leonardo da Vinci’s library contained 37 volumes. Who hadn’t left a used book sale with more than that?

So many great educational theories are abandoned because they don’t align with “what we should be doing.”

Learning leads to changes in humans. They behave differently after they have learned. They can perceive things they could not perceive before; they can state things they could not state before, they can solve things they could not solved before, and they can.

#edtech for #edleaders: Technicians and Teachers
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/07/edtech-for-edleaders-technicians-and-teachers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon