Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Over my career, I’ve been labeled, belittled, yelled at, and asked to scale back my lessons by principals, curriculum coordinators, superintendents. They never got what they wanted.

Good documentation of your network. including a logical map and device locations, is vital for troubleshooting and upgrades. Unfortunately, it is often neglected one school networks because IT professionals are overworked

A recent blog post on IT networks in schools, now with audio:
https://www.hackscience.education/an-introduction-to-it-networks/

Bandwidth is a zero-sum quantity. If students are streaming music or video, they are consuming resources that become unavailable for other educational tasks.

Don't be fooled by cheap home setups and the enterprise-grade networks are required for schools just because you set one up does not mean you can do the other.

Educators can no longer defer entirely to IT professionals; they must understand how these systems function to support effective teaching and learning.

School IT networks are among the most complex and challenging systems to secure because they connect students and teachers to data locally and across the globe. These networks are now essential infrastructure for modern education,.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

I interviewed in a school district. The superintendent was audibly reacting to messages on her phone and responding during the interview. At the end, I caught her eye and said, "My phone has been blowing up in my pocket for the last hour, I wonder what needs my attention next."

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

Those leaders who fear free and critical thought among the masses are to be feared… well not so much feared as removed… no on third thought… don’t let them be leaders in the first place.

So, let’s make heros of those who smuggle books into areas where they have been banned.

I buy and read used books. I judge the previous readers by the quality of their marginalia.

I just encountered the sentence, “You can’t judge a book by its lover.” (I doubled checked I didn’t introduce another typo… the word in the sentence is “lover.”)

Is this a typo? Is it true? Is it a typo that is more/ less true than the cliche?

If you can’t as them questions, are they really teachers?

Don’t conflate your conclusions grounded in cognitive biases with evidence.

Science does not have “clergy.” We have folks who think, speak, and write better than most of us, but their ideas are to be challenged and those that don’t stand up to empirical evidence are rejected no matter the authority who espoused them.

Create a system to promote anything you want and the first thing folks do is figure out how to game the system rather than doing what you seek to promote.

Just because you have been hired, does not mean you have the expertise you need.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence… and the evidence needs to be shared.