Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Hey faculty... maybe start prompting students' responses in online discussions. Encourage them to:
Confirm– provide supporting evidence for others’ statements
Challenge– provide contradicting evidence for others’ statements
Extend– Reconsider others’ statements in different circumstances
Apply– Use others’ statements to analyze a real-world problem

While an educator may articulate no theory, every instructional strategy embodies a theory of human learning.

Here is your regular reminder that the saying should be "always state the opinions upon which you base your facts."

Doxa, which is practice supported by opinion alone, is far more common than we realize, especially amongst the "data-driven" crowd.

I read books and articles, I listen to lectures, and I participate in discussions, but true learning occurs only after I have meaningful experiences with new knowledge.

We are all familiar with teachers’ habit of applying any new term to any existing classroom practice.

Brief podcast episode on AI as a Tutor dropped today.
https://buff.ly/3SZiuSO

Fundamentally, educators and IT professionals understand technology different ways. Even steps that seem to be necessary for promoting reliable and secure environments for technology-rich teaching and learning can be differently perceived and understood by different groups.

"Why do we need to learn this?" Teachers who answer this accurately and convincingly with real-worked connections have done half their job.

I really miss HyperCard.

A degree is “only a piece of paper” to folks who don't understand education. Those who have completed degrees understand that the piece of paper is only the final layer on the experience.

Lead with ideas that are sound and supported, and experts will follow.

On Psychology
https://hackscience.education/2020/03/02/on-psychology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The expert approaches problems and situations from multiple perspectives.

My classroom, my work with colleagues, and my design of materials must adjust to the students. It must also communicate the conclusion, “you are unique, and it is my job help you find that uniqueness and leverage it to our mutual benefit.”

Applying Taylorism to education is misguided..... very misguided.

AI Can Help Learners https://hackscience.net/2024/08/21/ai-can-help-learners/

Educational reform in the last several decades has been horizontal as schools commonly jump from one initiative to another with little reason.

Education for Information-Rich Fields
https://hackscience.education/2020/02/28/education-for-information-rich-fields/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

John Dewey identified four natural impulses of children:

to inquiry
to communicate
to construct
to express