Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
Gary Ackerman
boosted
how to handle enshittification in 5 steps:
1. recognise that you let a corporation control something you relied on.
2. understand it inevitably betrayed you and that you cannot rely on a corporation. ever.
3. divorce your need from reliance on the corporation, however painful.
4. acknowledge you should never have let a corporation control something you relied on.
5. resolve in absolute terms to never again let a corporation control something you rely on.
Gary Ackerman
boosted
we have made it to the point where publicly funding cancer research is a radical position and I would like to get off
Seriously... if you want to regain your writing skills, read excellent writers. Ernst Mayer is working for me right now..
A blog post on accessibility, now with audio:
https://www.hackscience.education/edtech-for-it-accessibility/
Learning in one of the most complex systems we have identified, yet many educators approach it as a simple unidirectional transfer of information.
I just noticed “correlated” (one of those words I can never seem to spell is “co” and “related”, but with an extra “r.” Now, if I can only remember that.
Teachers who conflate “scoring well on assessments” and “learning” are starting to annoy me.
If you only deal with “data and facts,” ignoring interpretation and theory, then you aren’t building any evidence.
The real scientific method begins with, “I don’t know,” and ends in much the same way, but twhat is unknown is different.
Yeah, I think educators have a greater responsibility than ever to apply critical thinking skills (similar to those they want their students to develop) to the curriculum they teach... and call out the “stuff” that shouldn’t be there.
I received.a message from senior leaders that came from the legal folks regarding accessibility.
It was not accessible.
What if you are an educator, who did your job and taught an incomplete, inaccurate, inappropriate curriculum? I used to think that could be excused... now... not so much.
Avoid single reasons and single villains.
I’m trying new strategy for expanding my professional library... if the table of contents resembles something I would write, I skip it. Self-reinforcing libraries are echo chambers too.
“I now hold entirely different views,” are not words often heard today.
What if (contrary to what were were told 15 or 20 years ago) Wikipedia really is full of credible information?
So much that is “data driven” turns out to be “myth driven.”
If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and we were probably jerks back then.
If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and you were probably jerks back then.
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
