Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Writing is often perceived as magic when first introduced into cultures.

The writer’s audience is always a fiction. -Walter Ong

#teaching is about forming relationships with #students and #learning together. Any other chatter about standards, instruction, competencies, technology, etc. is meaningless unless those relationships are established.

Is driving the mechanical act of operating a vehicle or a social act of sharing the roads? (Our collective answer matters.)

No surprise. #schools are less about relationships between #teachers and #students and more about systems than ever before. Outsiders are deciding the technologies that will “fix” education. The approach is doomed to failure.

Inert information is organized in no way, interpreted with no theory, places in no context. It really has no purpose. #data

“Does technology assure abundance?” - David Nye With information, the answer appears, “yes,” but the quality of that information is dubious. #technology

Knowledge is ultimately not a fractioning but a unifying phenomenon...." -Walter Ong

“Does technology assure abundance?” - David Nye With information, the answer appears, “yes,” but the quality of that information is dubious. #technology

Inert information is organized in no way, interpreted with no theory, places in no context. It really has no purpose. #data

Do we recognize the biases and assumptions of the technologies we use? The answer is unequivocally, “no.” Do they matter? Unequivocally, “yes.” #technology

The most important and challenging problems are rarely solved with more data.

Reading a book on social effects of technology... the stethoscope was originally viewed with derision by doctors... wait... what? #technology #technologyinnovation #innovation

"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." - Alvin Toffler #edleaders need to keep this in mind.

The most interesting uses of #technology arise when we find new uses... those not intended by the inventor. In biology, these are exaptations. So, if we want to advance technology... adopt (start using new stuff), adapt (what you do to leverage technology), and exapt (to find new uses).

Technology is probably not deterministic, but it sure has lots of momentum going in a direction. #technology #TechEthics #tech #technologies #technology

“The best uses of #technology can only emerge [once we] recognize that new machines are not inevitable and their uses are not ordained.” -David Nye

This is true of #edtech

Thoreau said, “men have become the tools of their tools.” I think he was on to something there. #technology

“Does technology assure abundance?” - David Nye With information, the answer appears, “yes,” but the quality of that information is dubious. #technology

“Technology does not automatically create crushing uniformity and standardization....” -David Nye

It appears we humans do that.

#technology