Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Would you hire the person who said “In business we try to upsell customers, so we generate more income. We should treat teachers just like we treat customers. Upsell them to get more out of them” in an interview to lead your IT department in a school?

The expertise and skill needed to keep enterprise IT networks operational is something that educators are very unlikely to have. Further, the work of keeping enterprise IT operational is a full-time job. For these reasons, schools hire IT professionals to keep the IT available to users.

Securing dat would be much easier if we didn't need to use it.

The literature on promoting creativity seems to agree on certain “things” we can do in classrooms:
-Explore new ideas in-depth;
-Observe and describe in mindful ways;
-Ask deep questions;
-Seek diversity (in the environment and in the perspectives that we bring to ideas);
-Use our imaginations.

Social Aspects of Learning
https://hackscience.education/2020/02/14/social-aspects-of-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Creativity is a reorganization of what exists in the environments to create something new (and often initially incongruous) that happens within a learner and that is then reflected back into the environments.

Individual humans introduce purpose, intentionality, motivation, and meaning to the interactions that produce new knowledge. AI doesn't.

Questions > Learning outcomes.

I'm "all in" on banning cell phones from schools (adults too). They have uses, but the damage done to students' learning and mental health are far worse than the best uses of them in class.

Check out my new podcast episode:
https://buff.ly/3SKvtY3

Real learning happens only when students are asking and answering questions to which the teacher does not know the answer.

Improving Memory and Recall
https://hackscience.education/2020/02/13/improving-memory-and-recall/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When schools are providing the type of experiences students really need, teachers are likely to feel unprepared to answer students’ questions.

What if you can't recognize those who are "smart" in your field?

Does anyone know the sound of the air conditioner in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel? I hear it is is "Hmmm..." I'm really not sure how how to spell the hums from here on out,

Giving up is a solution accepted by problem solvers... maybe too often.

Innovation Age Schools?
https://hackscience.education/2020/02/13/innovation-age-schools/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I really don't ' care what questions my studnets can answer... I care about the problems they can solve.

When is one "done" building a sand castle?

Reading outside on summer evenings is one of the great things about living in New England.