Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler

Advocates who speak with assurance they understand #learning and they know *the* method of #teaching are charlatans. They may deny it, but they are. #education #teacherlife #highered #highschool #teachertips

Great article from 2018 on hallucinating AI.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181204-why-we-should-worry-when-machines-hallucinate

OK, I get using protocols to facilitate interaction, but if you *always* use the same one, then I assume it is just part of your recipe, and you neither value interaction enough to do it yourself nor value the input of participants to attend to it rather that your protocol.

“Often a focus on hocus-pocus of pseudoscientific jargon and dubious quantification is all that links technocratic style to rational inquiry.” -Andrew Feenburg

We are compulsively, biologically, obsessively social. -Lewis Thomas

Just because you believe it does not mean it is not true.

The greatest benefits to health came from plumbers, not physicians.

“The most dangerous of all courses is to begin doing things without even recognizing the existence of a system....” -Lewis Thomas

Do the simple things, but do them really well.

In basic science the shots can never be called in advance—or by definition the enterprise is not basic science. -Lewis Thomas #science

I’ve been observing a team that gets “most of the way there” when planning for student-centered learning... then someone brings up “assessing the standards” and it all falls apart. I’m convinced the two are incompatible, and schools must design, value, honor both. #education

Overheard at faculty meeting: “I buy my wine there because it is cheaper.” #teacherlife

I remember seeing this as a child:
https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0

Sometime s I forget the wonderful sites we have:
https://purepng.com/

Lev Vygotsky wrote, “A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action”

A post for my network security students posted here for all.
https://buff.ly/3Q5D1Da

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“... suffice it to say we got distracted by the technology and the details of the data...” This seems to describe the last generation of #edleaders. #education #school

“Jargon is a curse; it permits professional groups to turn upon themselves....”