Dr. Gary Ackerman
@garyackermanphd.bsky.social
Teaching. Learning. Technology.
https://hackscience.education
Political science
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Sociology
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There are some teachers who only want to teach those who don't need to be taught.
Like it or not, this is one of the things I learned during my 30+ years in education.
Like it or not, this is one of the things I learned during my 30+ years in education.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou
If your students are only complying with your expectations, you are doing it wrong.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Imagine if schooling recognized this.
Imagine if schooling recognized this.
If you ask advice, but reject it, please do not be surprised when the person whose advice you sought does not want to clean up the mess you made.
“More of what failed most of my generation” is a crummy plan for most every policy, but especially education.
I regard pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy as a collection of frameworks for organizing curriculum and instruction.
That original idea you had, someone else had it previously, but that doesn’t mean the thinking, connecting, analyzing, etc. that led to your discovery was any less powerful than the previous originator.
If you are looking to programs/ curricula to solve your teaching problems, you won’t find it.
In IT, we triage… find the problems we can solve immediately that will have greatest impact, try to find ways to prevent the worst cases from happening again.
This seems a skill that needs to be included in those “soft skills” everyone talks about.
This seems a skill that needs to be included in those “soft skills” everyone talks about.
Priorities. It all comes down to priorities.
The answer is simple.
It may not solve the problem. It may make it worse. It may cause new problems.
But it’s simple, so let’s do it.
It may not solve the problem. It may make it worse. It may cause new problems.
But it’s simple, so let’s do it.
So much of a teacher's worklife seems to be spent continuing actions that have failed to produce desired results previously.
While computer-scored tests offer value, software should only play a minor role in a comprehensive math education. School leaders who rely on digital programs without ensuring rich, human-centered instruction fail to truly educate students.
https://blog.mrmeyer.com/wp-content/uploads/benny.pdf
blog.mrmeyer.com
In 1973, researcher S. H. Erlwanger published a case study on Benny, a sixth-grade student in an Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) math program. Although his teacher regarded him as a top pupil making fast progress, Benny held severe mathematical misconceptions.
Google is free... assuming your privacy has no value.
For all the talk… most organizations (at least the ones I’m familiar with) have no plans… for anything.
Teaching when you already know all of the answers your students are going to give…
… seems such a dull use of your time.
… seems such a dull use of your time.
Hey teachers, you know that best practice you talk about… sometimes it isn’t.
There are only two apples. Macintosh and those that are to to rejected… well fresh Paula Reds are acceptable for the week or two before Macs ripen.
Building relationships is just what compassionate humans do when they want to survive. The fact that we have lost that and replaced it with planned lessons (with learning objectives, formative assessments, etc.) illustrates what wrong with the education.