Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

#Invention (is the creation), #innovation (its improvement), #diffusion (its spread throughout users). To completely understand #technology and its influence, all three are essential.

The machine cannot be divorced from its larger social pattern; for it is this pattern that gives it meaning and purpose." - Lewis Mumford #technology #society

I'm always confused when I herd politicians who have been in office a long time decide now to "fix the longstanding problems."

I tweeted this in 2018. It may be more accurate than I thought:
We assume (falsely) that #technology and it’s advance is rational and can be controlled by humans.

Humans are social animals. The culture in which we live influences what and how we learn. #edreform #education #students

While we attend to novelty, humans tend to surround themselves with familiar “things.”

Yeah... I was unpopular in several situations where I pointed out the learning styles myth. Started carrying extra copies of some of the best “debunking” articles.

When you are a #teacher in a #school where the #leaders are having petty power struggles, it is obvious... and uncomfortable... and sad.

When you sit in a #classroom where the #teacher doesn’t know #students’ names, it is obvious... and uncomfortable... and sad.

Quickly adopting the solution someone else uses almost always assures you will not be satisfied with the results... your situation differs in unknown ways. Sometime one must reinvent the wheel.

T. H. Huxley wrote, “battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”

If you can explain everything, you can explain nothing.

Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. - Stephen Jay Gould

IMO: #data, #research, #evidence is given only cursory role (despite the rhetoric) in #education. Without having a habit of mind to doubt our data, we cannot know when we are deceiving ourselves.

“We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information....” Gould had that correct!

We are bombarded with too much [information] in our inordinately complex world; if we cannot sort the trivial from the profound, we are lost in terminal overload. -Stephen Jay Gould

Stasis is the norm for complex systems; change, when provoked at all, is usually rapid and episodic. -Stephen Jay Gould

Yeah, so the Earth may (surely will) survive human hubris... humans, not so much. #wisdom from #science

I’ve concluded leaders who recommend, “staying in your lane,” are not worth following

My uncle who died from ALS would refuse rides saying, “I want to walk while I still can.” I forget his #wisdom some days.