Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Being asked to clean out my email is like being asked to sweep up the beach.

Sorry folks, but it is 2026. You should not have to ask, "How do I start a Google Meet?"

I get you may have never done it, but just type it in to Google and follow the directions.

“The theatre of innovation” is my newest favorite term!

I encountered “capacity build” in a question... “How do we ‘capacity build’ for...?”

Let’s stop this use of that phrase. Immediately.

I encountered “capacity build” in a question... “How do we ‘capacity build’ for...?”

Let’s stop this use of that phrase. Immediately.

Was the failure do to a lousy implementation or a lousy idea?

When you have been "taught" to distrust authority, then you become incapable of critically evaluating the credibility of messages.

As computers become central to learning, everyone involved in IT management must step up to understand the complex services that keep schools running.

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?