Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

#edtech for #edleaders: The Evolving World Wide Web
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/29/edtech-for-edleaders-the-evolving-world-wide-web/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Back on the savannah, our cave-person ancestors weren’t taking SAT’s or plugging numbers into spreadsheets. But they were telling stories, building empathy, and designing innovations.”

"The success of instruction can be measured with a test." Can it? Can it really?

Curriculum comprises well-defined information and skills that represent necessary human knowledge. Does it? Does it really?

Like all human creations, education has a history and the future of education is contingent on that history. It is the source of institutional inertia and it limits (albeit temporarily) the potential futures of education.

Sorry folks, but it is 2024. You cannot claim to be a "good communicator" and also fail to respond to email.

#edtech for #edleaders: Mobile Operating Systems
https://hackscience.education/2019/02/12/edtech-for-edleaders-mobile-operating-systems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#edtech for #edleaders: Why We Adopt #edtech
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/28/edtech-for-edleaders-why-we-adopt-edtech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"What could possibly go wrong?"
Much more that you will admit.

Training versus Education
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/28/training-versus-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The technologies developed in one area for one population may not be accepted in other populations or have the same result.

To minimize the damage done to data by errors in measurement, scientists make measurements in large numbers. Taken together, the measurements will tend to group around the “real” value. This is incompatible with educational data, thus many errors remain... and are generally disregarded when the data are analyzed.

Look at your test and the answers students gave. Can you idfferentiate those who knew the answers and those who guessed? Do you care?

@freeschool Any chance you can resend the audio file? For some ready. It won’t play on mobile or desktop for me.

Do you want to understand a school? Talk to leaders. Talk to students. When there is a difference in what they report, believe the students.

Affordances of Educational Technology
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/25/affordances-of-educational-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Cognition in social settings is far more useful and productive than isolated cognition; this is what make everyone smarter than anyone. (Yes, I know there are exceptions.)

“What worked for me will work for them,” is the misguided reasoning.

If education was simply an engineering problem, it would have been solved decades ago.

Over my career, I have adopted the role of skeptic with regards to technology. Whenever anything new comes along, I look at it carefully and I must become convinced there is a compelling reason to adopt it.