Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Too often teachers simply repeat their original explanation, only slower, in hopes that students will understand.

Everyone is smarter than I am... you just to choose the right field... and there are lots and lots of them.

Seven Principles of Good Instruction
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/17/seven-principle-of-good-instruction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

The Coming Revolution in Education
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/16/the-coming-revolution-in-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"I must become convinced there is a compelling reason to adopt technology before I introduce it to my students." Try adopting this approach.

"I was thoroughly unimpressed with computers while a high school student,." That was more than 40 yers ago. My impressions have changed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-fossils-reveal-dinosaurs-lost-worlds/

"We are dedicated to accessibility."

Then why don't you use microphones?

What Small and Vorgan Wrote About Brains and Technology
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/14/what-small-and-vorgan-wrote-about-brains-and-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Some have concluded that the Internet-connected computer represents the realization of John Milton’s Areopagitica-- the ability to speak without censorship.

Writing and print is associated with empowerment of those who are skilled users of writing, and the marginalization of those who are illiterate or less skilled readers and writers.

"In the 1980’s recreation computer users were writing programs to satisfy their own interests and curiosities, and the mythical “computer nerd” emerged (and that stereotype was largely based in the reality of the population who used computers)." I was there. This is accurate.

Technology must be appropriately designed , properly configured. reasonably supported. If it fails to meet any of these conditions, then it cannot function, but unless it meets all three then it cannot function.

Some students are not eating so they can buy textbooks... for your class.

What Mark Deuze Wrote About Navigating a World Dominated by Digital Media
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/14/what-mark-deuze-wrote-about-navigating-a-world-dominated-by-digital-media/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Task completion goals are behavioristic; students may be completing the tasks as specified, but there is little attention paid to the purpose of the tasks or the use of the lesson beyond the immediate need to complete the task.

How Writing Changed Society
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/12/how-writing-changed-society/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Causes and effects are not clearly bounded and the connections between them are incompletely and inaccurately known.

It is through well-developed tacit knowledge that humans understand which problems to solve and how to apply the capacity of technology to solve problems and how to interpret ambiguous results.