Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Connectionism Makes Sense
https://hackscience.education/2019/02/01/connectionism-makes-sense/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

What is the scariest AI you can imagine?

Teacher training is about compliance with regulations, not teaching and learning.

When students ask, “will this be on the test?” they are telling you what they have learned about school.

“We want to improve our score on….” No matter how one finishes this, it is likely to be meaningless.

#edtech for #edleaders: Measuring Technology Acceptance
https://hackscience.education/2019/02/01/edtech-for-edleaders-measuring-technology-acceptance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If students demonstrate learning in the same way they learned it, you are finding out if they can recall it, not if they understand it. There is a difference.

“Isn’t school the real world for students?”

Sure, let’s ask them and see what they say.

Just because it’s easy to measure does not mean it matters.

Tacit Knoweldge https://hackscience.education/2024/01/29/tacit-knoweldge/

Is It an Innovation? https://hackscience.education/2024/01/29/is-it-an-innovation/

Pedagogic Hegemony
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/30/pedagogic-hegemony/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The strategies used to solve a problem depend on how the problem is framed and what the anticipated solution is.

Computers appear to have simply substituted for previous technologies, and have not changed how teachers teach and how students learn.

Factors Affecting Diffusion of Innovation
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/29/factors-affecting-diffusion-of-innovation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“The digital computer and its peripheral equipment will support most of the subsystems in the total school complex.” This prediction was made in 1964.

"Personally, I hope that, for once in the 20th century, a technology stays free. Because the rules-makers always manage to kill the essence while tidying up the details. Dogma replaces direct experience, and ritual becomes reality."-Michael Crichton in 1983

New leaders who ignore existing practice, culture, personality assure their failure.

#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.”