Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Naturalistic Approaches to Research and Teaching
https://hackscience.education/2018/09/28/naturalistic-approaches-to-research-and-teaching/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Folks often ask me if teachers are accurately represented on television and other media.

If we really wanted [healthy] people--substitute any other description that is valuable--we would be making much different decisions.

The less you know, the more deeply held are your opinions.

When the group doesn't know, that ignorance gets reinforced and accurate explanations are rejected.

Here is your reminder that “all observation must b3(3e for or against some view if it is to be of any service.”

Why Standardized Testing Flopped
https://hackscience.education/2018/09/24/why-standardized-testing-flopped/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

One’s experience as a student (and as an educator) in the past affects his or her perceptions and expectations of education for the future. This is often the worst source of "what we should do."

A Disturbing Observation
https://hackscience.education/2018/09/22/a-disturbing-observation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Problem framing is more important than problem solving.

The simplicity (and low expense) of setting up a network for use by consumers hides the complexity of planning, configuring, and managing an enterprise level network necessary in schools.

Students, teachers, and school administrators live and work in a dynamic and evolving environment in which outcomes have multiple causes and an action may have multiple effects. To attribute any changes to your interventions is misguided.

If decision-making is to be fact-driven, then it cannot be undertaken to support a political or economic conclusion that is established prior to beginning.

Humans are a Social Species
https://hackscience.education/2018/09/20/798/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Common understanding is more important than agreement in almost every situation.

“Learning games” are cognitive activities that causes learners to interact with information and that leads to understanding sufficiently sophisticated that it can be used flexibly.

If it has progressed to "buzz word" status, it is not longer what was originally intended.

Last summer, I made a prediction about the length of time a new hire would be here. A colleague assured me I was exactly correct. I don't recall it, so I don't think I can say "I told yo so."

All planners tend to focus on two questions: “What should we do?” and “Why should we do it?”

Clear boundaries are useful to humans, but nature exists along continua.