Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

We know ___ to be true.

Do we really?

Knowledge that us useful in your classroom or those like it, but nowhere else, has no place in your curriculum.

How humans create meaning seems an important question that evades an answer.

A blog post, now with audio, on asistive and accessible technology:
https://www.hackscience.education/edtech-for-it-assistive-technologies-accessibility/
#edtech #schools

A blog post, now with audio, on asistive and accessible technology:
https://www.hackscience.education/edtech-for-it-assistive-technologies-accessibility/
#edtech #schools

How humans create meaning seems an important question that evades an answer.

Yeah, I’m increasingly convinced my knowledge resides as much in my knowledge of the environment and the people and tools that I can access as in my brain,

“I have the test scores to prove it,” may be meaningful in medicine, agriculture, and a few other human endeavors, but #education is not one of them.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative... It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ~ Steve Ballmer

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~ Bill Gates

If you try to “make learning easier,” you misunderstand it.

If your students leave your classroom uninterested in learning more about your field then why were they there?

You would think by now we would be able to agree that telling and testing is not teaching.

Failure to prepare for foreseeable problems is the one thing that makes me immediate loose trust in leaders.

Yup, I’m convinced over reliance on testing makes classrooms “unsafe places to fail.” That may be the lest criticism we can levy against these instruments.

A blog post on inquiry and authentic assessment, and my percepts they have been abandonded.
https://www.hackscience.education/inquiry-and-authentic-assessment/
#education #edchat #schools

Knowledge that us useful in your classroom or those like it, but nowhere else, has no place in your curriculum.

“What counts as wrong?” is an interesting question.

When you get to your answer and realize you asked the wrong question, you are getting closer to answering it.

Online dictionaries that allow us to hear and learn to pronounce words are a real improvement over those I used as a child... I am one of those who read a far more diverse vocabulary than I heard, and this tool would have surely helped me.