Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

If I look at your argument and observe facts do not support it, I’m not going to accept it. It’s called reason. It isn’t unfair.

“Stupidity, in general, is a human property.” Recent observation suggests thus is accurate.

Motives are difficult to understand… especially your own.

RT @PresidentPat: Why do schools need Bells?

Its a weird New England fall... I can look out my window and see many green trees, some with dull color and many leafless trees.

Conceptually, computer networking is a rather simple process. Operationally, it is sophisticated and complex.

It is essential that the IT professionals understand the variety of activity that constitutes teaching and learning and that the best-laid plans are often useless when students, teachers, technology, and curriculum come together.

When IT first arrived in business and industry, it was largely a support or operational system. In most cases, the organizations could continue to serve its clients if IT systems were not functioning. Over time, IT has become more critical to missions. Even as it have become essential to organizational goals, IT does not generally add value to external clients.

Hey IT... if you are "understaffed and overworked," then you need to fix it and test it before closing the ticket. You don't have time to return to a problem you fixed in the wrong way.

It is really broken or do users just not know how to use it?

If you are not asking and answering:What will make the system easier to use?​ What will make the system more effective? then you aren't really improving IT in your organization,

Technology that is appropriately used meets the needs of those who provide the mission-critical functions of the organization. For the technology to be reliable, robust, and secure, it must be properly configured. Technology is reasonable if is fits into budgetary limits and aligns with the organization’s policies and mission. If the technology fails to meet any of these conditions, then it cannot function, but unless it meets all three then it cannot function.​

For technology to contribute to efficiently and effectively add value to organizations and its clients, it must function within the purpose of the organization in a sustainable manner. IT is rarely positioned to make these decisions.

Hey school leader… if you faculty and staff using the office as a lounge… tell them to stop. Right now.

We’ve had that misconception since I started in the late 1980’s. The problem has become more acute in the generation since learning outcomes and standards became out mantras.

Education as the “Recitation Script’
https://hackscience.education/2018/05/14/education-as-the-recitation-script/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“Stay in your lane” is silly advice until you meet folks who really need to stay in their own lane.

Non-neutrality of Technology
https://hackscience.education/2018/05/11/non-neutrality-of-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Be careful what you teach folks first. It becomes their default rationale… sometimes for decades. I know folks who insist in deleting every email “to save room on the server.”

Once we normalized opinions over facts, we doomed ourselves.