Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

"Eschew Obfuscation" is still the greatest bumper sticker I ever saw.

Root causes . They say ask "why?" fives time and that is the real cause of the problem. The recipe probably doesn't work in all cases, but it does get to the idea that problems are deeper than we admit.

When yur answer is simple, you do not understand the problem.

When Learning Is Inert https://hackscience.education/2024/07/04/when-learning-is-inert/

“Eliminate the impossible and whatever remained, however improbable, was the truth.”
― Isaac Asimov

Change or Die is Still Timely
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/05/change-or-die-is-still-timely/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
― Richard P. Feynman
But let's trust them to have a better idea than we do.

Todays’ digital dictionaries, that allow us to speak words to see spellings, listen to pronunciations, and even practice pronunciations are a vast improvement over paper dictionaries for those who want to be more efficient in learning the words that entertain them and make them more accurate communicators.

I recall reacting with some indignation when my classmates and I asked “how do you spell that?” and my teachers responded “look it up in the dictionary.” We were right.

Is data backed up regularly and reliably? How do you know?

#edtech for #edleaders: Facilitating Conditions
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/01/edtech-for-edleaders-facilitating-conditions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Learning requires engagement; students must think about the new material. Without that, the outcomes don't matter.

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

Identifying correlations is easy... so easy AI can do it.

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
― Richard P. Feynman

New podcast episode is available
https://bit.ly/3W6DV63

Diverse groups make better decisions. Deal with it.

Human care about the messages, technology does not. The messages “baby is a healthy girl” (with its 22 characters—including spaces) is the same as “grandmother died today” those messages have much different meanings for humans however.

Once we recognize that education is a technology, we must recognize that like all technologies it is not neutral. How it is organized and how students (and teachers and others) experience it exerts real and powerful influences on how humans interact with information and thus with how their brains work.

One of the underlying assumptions about technology is that it makes life easier or more efficient. This turns out to be a false assumption.