Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Only school IT professionals have ever experienced the intense pressure of entering a classroom to fix the computer and projector for a classroom of students who are awaiting the start of the long-promised movie.

A new episode of my podcast dropped... my target audience is folks who want to or who are working as IT professionals in schools.
https://bit.ly/3RZpmyI

Leadership and the Adoption of Innovative Planning
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/21/leadership-and-the-adoption-of-innovative-planning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

My best lessons were those in which students were creating something that did not exist before.

AI seems to be supporting the conclusion GI is still GO.

Consequences. The unintended consequences are sometimes the more influential.

I'm not in K-12 any longer. Did they ever decide Zoom meetings were a good option for engaging parents?

On Training and Change
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/20/on-training-and-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Do you want to know why folks go to "YouTube" to find answers to their questions? Becasue that's where the answer are.

I work in #edtech. I spend much of my time handling requests for support for tools I've never heard of but teachers adopted because "my friend uses it." I get how social influences affect choices, but I don't have time to learn every poorly designed tool out there.

Human cognition is a zero-sum quantity; each individual has a limited quantity of cognition available at any moment, and that cognition used for one purpose is not available for another purpose. Consider that when designing materials for your students.

Extraneous cognitive load is that which is wasted by the learners managing bad design or poor organization of information or information technology tools.

Germane cognitive load is that which is available for the learner to think about, strategize about, and come to deeper understanding of the ideas and information in the task. Learning occurs only when germane cognitive load is available and the amount available limits what can be learned.

Some Observations of Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/19/some-observations-of-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Once we become familiar with new educational technologies, we can begin to use them to study unfamiliar problems, but not before.

Instructors should place materials online, but that is not sufficient for online teaching.

Elevator Pitch on “New Teaching”
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/18/elevator-pitch-on-new-teaching/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Darwin’s Ghosts https://hackscience.net/2024/07/08/darwins-ghosts/

“AI: ‘I can predict your next move.’ Me: ‘Great! What’s my next tweet?’ AI: ‘404: Creativity not found.’”

What said AI can't write jokes?

Classrooms should be spaces and places in which students are challenged to reconsider their assumptions and biases, apply what they have are learning to their lives and to unfamiliar situations, and consider uncomfortable questions and topics.