Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

A student in my summer course (paraphrasing) “thanks for the video showing the organization of the course, I wish every instructor did that.” You and me both!

Listen to you instructional designers and learning experience designers… we know what we are doing.

“The statement you quote is absurd…” is my new favorite way to begin a reply.

I heard for decades “John Dewey’s brand of schooling takes so much energy. He couldn’t even run the lab school that long.” I’m now reading a biography and seeing the number of departments for which he had administrative oversight. I want to go back and set some folks straight.

When I was working in schools that “only supply Chromebooks,” I’d have to add a laptop or two of my own to my classroom as my students were working in projects that necessitated full applications.

Sometimes I look back on the day I did my "there are no learning styles rant" for students (explaining the experiments that have been designed to test for it) when the curriculum coordinator was there... she advocated that myth. It was great to see her scowling reaction.

Yeah,,,, there is a radio station that plays "classic rock" in my region... lots of tunes from my teen years. I can't listen to it for more than a few minutes.... 1970's-1980's music was tiresome.

I used to say, "when will we ever be without the internet, calculators, etc. in our packets," then I dropped my iPhone.

When you say “no” to narcissists, they become incredulous. I sometimes do it just for the entertainment.

How much of school is doing things to find out what they already know? -paraphrasing John Dewey when he saw his daughter in a classroom .

John Dewey said “a too consuming & insistent attitude of self-protection isn’t the most successful thing in the world.” I think he vastly understated how damaging this attitude is.

Yeah, so that technology… the really great technology… it is the result of lots of work. It literally looks like magic, but it is not.

“Beneath the surface of grandeur was deception.” Words that described the situation just before the depression in 1893.

Competition can be good… especially if it is groups working to solve important problems. When it become pettiness (which it often does) problems are unsolvable.

“Technologies have autonomy and agency?” Really? Sometimes it seems they do, but I don’t think so.

“Bending, breaking, blending.” Anthony Brandt’s the B’s of creativity. Sure seems to capture the essence of how we create.

Another strategy for making “data-driven” leaders stare at you blankly: “Your data are interesting. What do you think is missing?”

I don’t care what you teach, or to whom you teach it… if ethics is not part of your course, you are not doing your job.

If students do not question their teachers, they aren’t doing their job.

In this sentence, "they" includes both the teachers and the students.

A blog post, now with audio, that differentiated how we solve problems in technology and science
https://www.hackscience.education/comparing-it-and-education/

A blog post on Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations, now with audio:
https://www.hackscience.education/everett-rogers-diffusion-of-innovations-theory-a-comprehensive-overview/