Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
If you have only one way to explain it can you be an “expert?”
Communication, analysis, problem solving... wouldn't it be cool if all schools helped students demonstrate these skills in multiple ways?
If is often better for leaders to not ask advice, especially in public. When they get good advice, then act in an opposite manner, they end up looking the fool.
"Because you will need it next year" is the worst possible answer.
Teachers must have their students' best interest in mind as they act. Sometimes they delude themselves about what is in their best interest.
Rather than demonstrating an idea is true, scientists demonstrate and idea is false.
Before scientists accept an observation, it must be observed by others.
All disputes in science are resolved by evidence and observation, and evidence and observation must follow the rules of logic.
Too many "data-driven" folks are forget we need a casual explanation.
Good scientific theory allows us to explain cause and effect relationships, and thus to make predictions: If we do A, it will cause B, because of this mechanism.
Timeline of Updating Teachers’ Practice
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/19/timeline-of-updating-teachers-practice/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Together we learn... Divided we don't.
knowing is a social process as much as it is a cognitive process
By challenging themselves and their own understanding from the students' perspective, teacher become learners.
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.
“The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.”
― Stephen Jay Gould
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
