Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Headings in Documents
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/27/headings-in-documents/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Is AI gaining tacit knowledge? Or does it only appear so? Or does it appear so?

Thinking About Adult Learners
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/24/thinking-about-adult-learners/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Computers can remember with precision and longevity, and computers can follow algorithms at billions of steps per second. That does not make them intelligent.

When humans speak or shout, they can communicate with those who are listening. It requires only the anatomy and physiology of the human body and develops in most humans with no special training. Speech and hearing are ephemeral and local, however. If speech is unheard, then it is lost, and it functions only over relatively short distances.

Elevator Pitch: Leveraging #edtech
https://buff.ly/4gh9diS

“We have come to the edge of a world of which we have no experience, and where all of our preconceptions must be recast.” D'Arcy Thompson was referring to biology, but it is appropriate today.

Elevator Pitch on Student Engagement
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/23/elevators-pitch-on-student-engagement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Can you please make my Zoom meeting open for anyone?"
I can, but I won't. I can send you to the directions, but I need a paper trail that I advised against it.

Significant Learning
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/21/significant-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"The very act of observing disturbs the system." -Werner Heisenberg

"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think." -Werner Heisenberg

Perspectives on Learning
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/20/perspectives-on-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A Short Rant on School Improvement
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/16/a-short-rant-on-school-improvement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Digital Badges: A Credential Whose Time is Now?
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/14/digital-badges-a-credential-whose-time-is-now/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Discussions for Deeper Processing
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/11/discussions-for-deeper-processing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Can We Agree We are Wrong?
https://hackscience.education/2020/04/06/can-we-agree-we-are-wrong/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"I'm really good at multitasking."
No. No you are not.

I am convinced the "ban cell phones in school" efforts are the right thing to do, but returning to "telling and testing" is not.

At the start of the school year, I am reminded that the "it's in the syllabus" folks are the same folks who call IT/ administrative assistants/ others rather than looking it up on their own.