Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Frustrated with #edtech repairs? "Cold closures" happen when IT closes tickets without confirming the fix with you. This can undermine your confidence in using the tech.

Deeper learning emphasizes problem-solving, critical thinking, & collaboration to prep students for real-world challenges.

Challenge learners. Creating cognitive conflicts encourages critical thinking & helps overcome biases. Don't let them only see what they agree with.

Group awareness tools are key to today's education. They highlight informational diversity, helping learners integrate info from various sources for scientific inquiry.

What is information, and how much do people need?

So, if you advocate for a *single* solution that is *best* for all #schools #classrooms #teachers #students you are wrong. #highschool #highered #teaching

When #teachers define #learning outcomes *every day,* they are assuming responsibility for one if the most important aspects of learning.

Metacognition (predicting what is needed, monitoring learning, and reflecting on experience) helps humans build knowledge and reasoning. #teaching #learning #education

“Large swaths of our nation have, for decades, thrown their public school systems under the bus....” #education #schools

How you respond when empirical evidence fails to support your preferred solution matters.

“Interventions are not easily aggregated to whole-schools models.” If #teachered and #edleadership taught just one thing, I would choose this. #education #edchat

So, if you advocate for a *single* solution that is *best* for all #schools #classrooms #teachers #students you are wrong. #highschool #highered #teaching

What is information, and how much do people need?

Is wisdom knowing the right answers or knowing the right questions?

“The Internet is not a ‘truth’ medium; it is an information medium.” [It] “can have no interest in such a distinction.” Neil Postman sure seems to have been prescient in 1999. #socialmedia #Internet #DigitalLearning

Do we write and speak to inform or to make others, think, feel, act? #communication #writing #writerslife

Can nature create art?

Just as quality in manufacturing is defined from your customer’s perspective, usability is defined from system user’s perspective.

Lewis Mumford: “To exist was to exist in print: the rest of the world tended gradually to become more shadowy. Learning became book-learning.”

Insight from 17th century:

From public schools shall general
knowledge flow,

For ‘tis the people’s sacred
right to know.

#education #teaching #schools