Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Anyone who chooses a life in education must have thick skin.” I sure was right 12 years ago when I wrote this.

Narcissists’ indignation. I’m starting to just laugh at it.

Autonomy and Education
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/19/autonomy-and-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Teachers who responds to a question by reiterating the same thing only slower. 🤦‍♂️

I find teachers and administrators who stand and deliver messages with confidence, but cannot seem to judge their message and reject any challenges in their message or their presentation.

If a teacher stresses the importance of a standardized test, then several tacit lessons are learned such as "someone other than me" knows what is best for you. Also, a test is the ultimate arbiter of value and worth. Your score on this is the most important measure if our work.

For most of human history, humans have lived in stable and slowly changing environments. The life you had was the life your children would have and the life your parents had; the pattern repeated itself for generations upon generations.

I just found this an a file: “Both my children and I have iPods, but they got them before I did and have more media on them than I do.” Care to guess what year it was written?

Innovators’ Toolkit
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/18/innovators-toolkit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Can educators device assessment that can predict how students will develop rather than what they did?

My Grandfather’s Textbooks
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/18/my-grandfathers-textbooks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If you don't understand the task, using technology doesn't make it better.

When we stop seeing information technology as "information processing tools," they start to become useful.

When we name things, we often stop seeing the continuity and variability that makes them interesting.

Ticketing systems are fine for help desks, but technicians talking about the problems they face (with IT and people and systems) results in more effective service.

Planning and Goals
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/17/planning-and-goals/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Much that we "need" is defined by cultural norms.

Curriculum is largely isolated from the "real-world."

OK. Let's get this straight. You can't eschew phones, the internet, other technologies, and complain that you can't access what other can and folks don't communicate with you as much as they do others.

Technologies are culturally mediated. What others' think of them affect our beliefs about them.