Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

In the modern classroom, educators must be active learners. Learning about their students, their content, their practice, and themselves... or they become irrelevant.

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” - Carl Sagan

Humans are social and communicative creatures; and, for the recent history of the species, humans have used various technologies to facilitate communication and society-building.

Defining Change
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/10/defining-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Independent and autonomous learners. Few schools really wan them.

"We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution." - Carl Sagan

#edtech for #edleaders: Freezing
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/10/edtech-for-edleaders-freezing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Other institutions have become flexible and responsive to emerging technology and social expectations; schools... not so much.

Open intellectual property is way better than textbooks if you want to expose your students to authentic curriculum.

It is not enough to be novel in your thinking. You must also be correct.

A Planning Cycle for #edtech
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/09/a-planning-cycle-for-edtech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If disparate evidence and points of view are not part of your classroom, you are doing it wrong.

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing." Isaac Asimov

I value top-down, standardized curriculum and test-dominated assessment as much as I value the equivalent form of leadership.

"Anomalous facts get incorporated into existing theories, often with a bit of forced stretching to be sure, but usually with decent fit because most worldviews contain considerable flexibility. "- Stephen Jay Gould

I do see lots of folks teaching themselves with YouTube, social media, manufacturers' web sites and channels.

My First Computer
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/09/my-first-computer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." -Charles Darwin

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." - Clifford Stoll

If students never get the chance to attempt to solve problems in which they apply your lessons to real-world situations, your curriculum needs revision... immediately.