Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Sometimes the solutions are "fixing" the wrong problems.

"Back in the day" we rejected Channel 0 because it was advertisement driven. Today, we link students to YouTube videos without a second thought.

File Formats https://hackscience.net/2024/08/18/file-formats/

Leadership and Goals and Decisions
https://hackscience.education/2020/03/05/leadership-and-goals-and-decisions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’m preparing to teach some math this fall— the first time in more than 5 years—and I’m reminded how important it is to start with concepts.

Water seems the resource we should worry about not oil.

Would Darwin be in social media? Given his voluminous letter writing, I conclude, “yes.”

An Elevator Pitch on the Changing Nature of Teaching and Learning
https://hackscience.education/2020/02/17/an-elevator-pitch-on-the-changing-nature-of-teaching-and-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Research is designed to answer questions. In school, we too often focus research papers by topics. The simple change to researching to answer a question with an ambiguous answer can improve the experience of research.

Would you hire the person who said “In business we try to upsell customers, so we generate more income. We should treat teachers just like we treat customers. Upsell them to get more out of them” in an interview to lead your IT department in a school?

The expertise and skill needed to keep enterprise IT networks operational is something that educators are very unlikely to have. Further, the work of keeping enterprise IT operational is a full-time job. For these reasons, schools hire IT professionals to keep the IT available to users.

Securing dat would be much easier if we didn't need to use it.

The literature on promoting creativity seems to agree on certain “things” we can do in classrooms:
-Explore new ideas in-depth;
-Observe and describe in mindful ways;
-Ask deep questions;
-Seek diversity (in the environment and in the perspectives that we bring to ideas);
-Use our imaginations.

Social Aspects of Learning
https://hackscience.education/2020/02/14/social-aspects-of-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Creativity is a reorganization of what exists in the environments to create something new (and often initially incongruous) that happens within a learner and that is then reflected back into the environments.

Individual humans introduce purpose, intentionality, motivation, and meaning to the interactions that produce new knowledge. AI doesn't.

Questions > Learning outcomes.

I'm "all in" on banning cell phones from schools (adults too). They have uses, but the damage done to students' learning and mental health are far worse than the best uses of them in class.

Check out my new podcast episode:
https://buff.ly/3SKvtY3

Real learning happens only when students are asking and answering questions to which the teacher does not know the answer.