Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Just because Excel makes the graph available doe not mean it is a good one.

We assume that everyone should learn what we learned and how we learned it.

A Short Rant About Pronouns
https://hackscience.education/2020/01/24/a-short-rant-about-pronouns/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The diverse nature of students and the broad nature of the curriculum is part of what makes schools unusual places to work for IT professionals.

One of the most distressing realizations one makes when they become a teacher is that the best plans one makes for the classroom are just guesses.

"Average: is meaningless in most situations.

In the domain of information technology, all problems are solvable.

How we frame problems is more important than how we solve them.

Three Questions about Technology Planning

https://hackscience.education/2020/01/23/three-questions-about-technology-planning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A Network Metaphor for Learning
https://hackscience.education/2020/01/20/a-network-metaphor-for-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A Response to Multitasking
https://hackscience.education/2020/01/17/a-response-to-multitasking/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Paradox of Moving Goals
https://hackscience.education/2020/01/15/the-paradox-of-moving-goals/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Another Look at TPCK https://hackscience.net/2024/07/30/another-look-at-tpck/

On Social and Technology-Rich Education
https://hackscience.education/2020/01/13/on-social-and-technology-rich-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It may seem unnecessary to state it, but schools are places where children are present. Lots of children. Children who reflect the social, racial, ethnic, and other characteristics of the local population.

Many educators are coming to realize (largely because they are listening to the cognitive and learning scientists who are discovering how human brains really work) that “telling and testing is not teaching.”

A Little About Brains
https://hackscience.education/2020/01/09/a-little-about-brains/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When they work in schools, IT professionals are often asked to build systems that does not make sense to them as it is contrary to their expectations.

When one thinks of a classroom, they picture a teacher standing in front of the seated (in rows) students and telling them what they need to know. I call this the standard model of education.

Whom We Find in Schools https://hackscience.net/2024/07/28/whom-we-find-in-schools/