Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The Nature of Learning and Education Policy
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/18/the-nature-of-learning-and-education-policy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“We stop looking for monsters under our beds when we realize they are inside us.”
― Charles Darwin

Data that is collected in uncontrolled (or at least undescribed) settings is not reliable ... not are conclusions based on it.

If students see themselves as readers, writers, scientists, etc., then we can start.

"Do they like it?" is rarely worth asking in educational settings.

Once you define the proxy, it matters rather than the thing.

What Benkler Wrote About Networks
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/16/what-benkler-wrote-about-networks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

We have data, but we don't use it. Even when we think we do, we don't.

To see the problem another sees, in the same perspective and at the same angle—that amounts to something. -John Dewey

If you don't understand the material, yuor grade is meaningless.

“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
― Charles Darwin

I’m really becoming curious about human’ fascination with measuring with precision things with the defining characteristic of continuity.

Is your test measuring it or causing it? How do you know?

All data is interpreted either for or against some point of view.

Darwin is an intellectual hero, but on this one, he was wrong:
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
― Charles Darwin

Planning and Goals
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/16/planning-and-goals-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
― Charles Darwin

Who else is actually looking forward to getting political polling calls? It is so obvious what they are trying to get to on the questions that I will answer the questions designed to get the same data in the opposite wat they I answered the previous one.. My guess is they have way to weed out jerks like me.

QR codes were supposed to change everything, then they disappeared for 10 years, now they are everywhere.

There is a situation more common in schools (all schools, including higher ed) that leaders are willing to admit (at least publicly): the IT systems are too difficult to use, and they do not provide the capacity that teachers and students need, but they are unwilling to confront the existing IT folks about it.