Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Fundamental to innovation is change. When new tools, strategies, or approaches are adopted by a community, they have innovated. Of course, innovation becomes cyclic. Once a practice has become widely used it is no longer an innovation.

IT professionals must train and support so users can log on and use hardware in classrooms, the student management and learning management systems teachers use, email, and other technology needed for teaching. #edtech

Reflecting on their learning by comparing it to other or to exemplary work is one way we can promotes learning by students.

Encouraging students to articulate their new learning helps ensure they know they know it.

The best teachers coach students as they demonstrate new learning;

What if teachers modeled how their lessons are applied to real life... not the real life of professionals, but the real life of educated and engaged citizens?

The technology in schools is truly frightening. The instructor who sits at an office computer may not realize the system connected through the dirty screen and the coffee-stained keyboard.

It is tempting to blame education for the changes in society that we observe, but that will gain us nothing and the blame is not deserved.

The turmoil in education driven by society and by technology shows no sign of abating.

Perhaps we organize curriculum and instruction to increase students' ability to learn to use new tools and understand new concepts.

Perhaps we organize curriculum and instruction to increase students' ability to use tools and apply concepts to unfamiliar problems.

"Cortisol is hormone associated with stress responses, but the effects of this hormone can be much different on the human body depending on exposure. Long-term exposure to elevated levels of cortisol can produce a permanent level of stress that can be unhealthy."

TO what degree does this reality affect decision making in schools.

On Rationales https://hackscience.net/2023/11/24/on-rationales/

At what point will "competence with technology, including the ability to adapt to new tools" be an expectation of white collar workers?

In 2017 Pew Research Center reported that 92% of adults in the United States own an Internet connected smartphone. It seems the few who still don't are in my extended family.

For many generations of teachers and students, learning was understood to be the transfer of information; what was known by the teachers was transferred into the brains of students.

Notice the past tense.

Hey college students (and their parents): if you have realized your first choice college isn’t a good fit, don’t worry, lots of us discovered that reality! Just make sure to study so you can transfer your credits.

“I rejected my own biases.” Yeah… you most certainly didn’t.

“Teaching is inherently counterintuitive.” Yeah… 35 years in education seems to confirm that observation.

Imagine living at a time when there was a willful rejection of evidence… oh, wait… never mind.