Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The most flawed educational proposals proceed from the position that education is an engineering problem, and thus we can build educational systems that produce measurable achievement reliably.

I am increasingly intolerant of those who continue to improve schools through old tired ideas that or those that ignore what we know about teaching and learning.

When teachers do the most work in classrooms….

Learning is a vastly more complex phenomenon than is allowed in the popular culture and in many classrooms.

The imposition of one’s preferred method of instruction on all teachers in all subjects who teach all populations of students is something school leaders should avoid. They don't, but they should.

Long division is a technology... its is a soft technology... but a technology nonetheless. There is nothing special about it, except that you were taught it when we did not have better technology.

Education is reluctant to accept that humans vary.

It is the questions, not the clickers. #edtech

Maybe we start asking what can AI do that we can’t? It seems that is the really useful thing we have done with technology.

If human brains create consciousness through electrical activity in neural circuits, why is it unreasonable to think it can result from similar activity in silicon circuits?

Know that is pretty boring. Know how is more interesting.

Let’s Diversify Computer Education
https://hackscience.net/2024/04/06/lets-diversify-computer-education/

One of the most surprising realizations for adults who begin working in schools is that what is taught is not what they were taught or what they think should be taught.

Hey #edtech Do you decisions expand the opportunities for students and teachers?
I know your answered , "yes."
Now, go ask them... and believe the answers.

I am one of those IT folks who blocked Wikipedia on the school network until I realized what I had done. That event has affected by #edtech decision making since.

How do we encourage bricolage in AI?

My son rewrote his resume using AI. He used it in the way he "should." He wrote prompts based on his experience and kept the accurate stuff and edited it. This is just the way that made sense to him to use it. Maybe we trust folks to use tools.

A Secret About Curriculum and a Message for Students https://hackscience.net/2024/04/02/a-secret-about-curriculum-and-a-message-for-students/

Message to those who speak to every question or issue in a meeting: No one is listening to you.

"Creating your own reality" just know that others will reject it, and distance themselves from you if it contradicts reality.