Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Creativity is a reorganization of what exists in the environments to create something new (and often initially incongruous) that happens within a learner and that is then reflected back into the environments. AI is proving useful in helping this as well.

Humans introduce purpose, intentionality, motivation, and meaning to the interactions that produce new knowledge.

It is reasonable that students who gain experience learning with independence are better prepared for rapidly changing and unpredictable knowledge and situations that characterize our current economy and culture.

What can I learn from this? The craft of teaching requires one to continually improve what he or she does. The lessons can come from ourselves and they can come from others. Those who develop the capacity to step back and look objectively (and judgmentally) on practice will become the designers of the best lessons.

Episode 8 of the Appropriate Proper Reasonable podcast dropped.
https://rss.com/podcasts/apr/

"What do you need from me?" tells me that you are distancing yourself from the project and are not even willing to understand what your might be.

“I will rejoice in the multifariousness of nature and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

Yes, you can read books by listening to them.

I heard "humanware" for the first time today. I hope it is the last.

AI writes the most incredible posts. Here is an example: “The best debugging tool is a cup of coffee. If that doesn’t work, try turning it off and on again.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

Yeah, let's not rel on Ai for jokes. We get stuff like this: Why don’t programmers like nature? Because it has too many bugs.

Most organizations don’t want innovation regardless of what they say.

Exploitation, plunder, fraud are often conflated with hard work.

Luck determines who succeeds, but other things do as well.

Yeah... you might think you can be apolitical... but you can't... and that is a good thing.

Accessibility... if you claim to value "inclusivity," but to not concern yourself with those (of us) who need accessibility accommodations, please shut up.

Having data is fine, but if there is no theoretical framework supporting it collection and interpretation, then it is meaningless.

The disconnect between what counts as "learning" in school and what counts in the "wild" is striking.

"Students who have no chance of passing should stop coming to class." This sends a clear message to them that grades are all that matters.