Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Yeah... if you attend the "advanced" training, please avoid asking the presenter to show how to do "stuff" done in the "basic" training.

I used to write notes on paper in meetings in my own “scrawly” short-hand. I claim it was an analog encryption method.

Is delivering content and tracking views (which any worthy LMS can do well) teaching?

You don’t get #students to understand ideas by learning definitions of more terms.

What if education was based on building what doesn’t yet exist?

Taylorism was *not* designed for education.

A blog post, now with audio, on teaching information-rich fields:
https://www.hackscience.education/education-for-information-rich-fields/

“Observation is the only means for us to ascertain whether or not the picture that we formed is correct.”

Interdependence is the basis of effective organizations.

I just read a piece about how #OER textbooks are a "disruptive innovation." Sure, they might interfere with textbook profits (if we can continue to increase adoption), but I think it is disingenuous to suggest they will disrupt #education. #teaching #school #highered

I encountered “infrastructuring” for the first time... the more I think about it the more I like it.

Knowing “things” is of limited use... knowing how things interact... that is useful.

When ideas become popular, they are appropriated by everyone for everything that makes ‘em vacuous. I once heard (seriously), “I want my students to learn, so my lectures are the real ‘student-centered’ teaching.” This was from a 5th grade teacher... who lectured!

Learning styles don’t exist, but teaching styles definitely do.

“Leveraging” has a “meaningless buzz word” feel, but it accurately describes what can be done with well-deployed #edtech

If you are ignoring theory, you aren’t really being data-driven.

A blog post (now with audio) on the history of computers in schools
https://www.hackscience.education/when-computers-started-school/

Are You Being Scientific?
a blog post
https://www.hackscience.education/are-you-being-scientific/

A blog post on the need for educators to lead #edtech
https://www.hackscience.education/where-the-rationale-for-school-it-breaks-down/

There is a difference between what we “swallow” when learning and what we “assimilate” when learning. Schools have abandoned one.