Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Attuning your ear to your #students (paraphrasing Confucius) is a lesson most #teachers learn too late in their careers, and those who become administrators (IMHO) rarely learn, and when they do they dismiss it. #education

Open book tests throughout the term, then closed for the final? Yeah... if we want to encourage learning through the entirety of the course.

Desirable difficulties. Some good ideas in education never get our attention.

If your class is structured for short-term memory, why are you bothering? Why should your students?

When adopting new technologies, two complementary questions seem necessary: “Does this meet our need?” *and* “What is possible now that wasn’t previously?”

We too often stop after the first, and miss opportunities for creative and innovative changes.

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,