Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Leaderspeak: “Tell Me What I Can Do to Help” https://hackscience.net/2023/11/13/leaderspeak-tell-me-what-i-can-do-to-help/

We are at the point where "presentations" comprise one reading slides the contain AL-generated text. SMH

Do we trust the "data person" who used AI to analyze their data?

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. -Kurt Vonnegut

“Progress” is all in the definitions.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: every innovative new practice will fall out of favor and be replaced with what it replaced.

Study science. It helps you be understand it’s OK to change your mind.

Edtech for Edleaders: Whom to Hire: Data Specialists
https://hackscience.education/2018/07/27/edtech-for-edleaders-whom-to-hire-data-specialists/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I worked with a person who had a long history working in films recently. My cousin worked as an extra in one of his films decades ago! Spooky?!?! Not really. Just a coincidence.

We were confused… they were confused.

This explains more situations than we care to admit.

Discoveries need not be original to be wonderful.

Paraphrasing Eric Kandel: My first experience in the laboratory was absorbing, unlike the dry science I learned in school.

Read that again and again until it bothers you.

I like reading "the world is changing" books about 5 years after they were published. The predictions are so rarely accurate.

#Edtech for #Edleaders: Beta-Testing
https://hackscience.education/2018/07/25/edtech-for-edleaders-beta-testing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. - Stephen Jay Gould

Wicked Solutions Matter
https://hackscience.education/2018/07/25/wicked-solutions-matter/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. - Stephen Jay Gould

One things I learned as an #edtech professional: Those who complain their students don't read the syllabus are the some ones who don't read the step-by-step guides we make.

“Repairs are being made, but there is still not communication about what our technology can and should do.”

This describes too many IT departments in schools.