Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out

The Talking Heads were right

When evaluating information, we can allow individuals to hold contrary opinions, but those need to be evaluated against empirical evidence and those that are not supported by those observations must be rejected from the public discourse and decision-making.

Epistemology is Not a “Four-Lettered” Word 3: Authority
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/21/epistemology-is-not-a-four-lettered-word-3-authority/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It seems our culture has suffered a disintegration of the quality of the information we use in the last generation. Reason is waning. Hypocrisy is waxing. Rationality is rejected.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ~ Steve Ballmer

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. - Stephen Jay Gould

@mguhlin My copy of Visible Learning arrived yesterday!

Let's make password policy so complicated that no one can remember them, so they write them on sticky notes attached to their displays.

Does anyone have research supporting x?
Where x is a popular educational practice.
The answer is often “no.”

Edtech for Edleaders: Whom to Hire- CIO
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/20/edtech-for-edleaders-who-to-hire-cio/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Maybe you actually answer the question before closing the ticket.

Edtech for Edleaders: Capacity of Computing Devices
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/20/edtech-for-edleaders-capacity-of-computing-devices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Schools, the institutions we have adopted for teaching, are a rather recent human invention, and may not be the best. Scholars have documented how teaching occurs in societies other than school and found some similarities, but much that western schools have ignored.

The Problem with Data
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/18/the-problem-with-data/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Students’ motivation, their cultural expectations, the interactions they have with peers, and the interactions they have with faculty and other educators are all important factors in how and what students learn.

Significant problems that we use to focus instruction should require understanding of concepts and be contextualized by a situation perceived to be relevant and authentic by students.

Humans behave differently after they have learned. They can perceive things they could not perceive before; they can state things they could not state before, they can solve things they could not solved before, and they can.

I work in #edtech. When I respond to some calls for help, I wonder "do these people call the librarian when the book is open to the wrong page?"

Epistemology is Not a “Four-Lettered” Word 2: Simplicity
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/14/epistemology-is-not-a-four-lettered-word-2-simplicity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

School IT users are notorious when it comes to support. There are the students and teachers who believe they can fix any problems and they try. Others will not attempt any troubleshooting and will call for technicians whenever anything goes wrong.