Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
-Richard P. Feynman

"This technology will change everything" is hyperbole.

Are we at the point where we should include astrology in astronomy courses? I mean, lots of folks think its real and we should be fair to them right?

Design Defined
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/04/design-defined/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Paraphrasing Ashley Montgu: For science, certainty is elusive, but exploration is constant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
-Richard Feynman

“The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

On Learning – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/09/26/on-learning/

IT Goes Mainstream: The Most Influential Trend in Recent Generations?
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/03/it-goes-mainstream-the-most-influential-trend-in-recent-generations/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I see folks doing other stuff during virtual workshops and meetings. No big deal. What bugs me is when those folks are teachers who later complain about inattentive students.

Basic Operations of Technology
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/02/basic-operations-of-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

That link that did not expect in your inbox… don’t follow it! 🤦‍♂️

So many accommodations we make are simply good teaching.

We’ve been asked to identity our “super powers” in a meeting. I’m finding it hard to resist the urge to say “recognizing self-delusional statements.”

Forget teaching how to do taxes, if we teach the paradox of knowledge (“If you think you understand it, you are wrong”), we might be able to make better collective decisions.

Old (Fordist) versus New (ICT)
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/28/old-fordist-versus-new-ict/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Folks who come in to lead small organizations who have never worked in them have no idea how “departments of one” function. And it shows.

“Meetings to update us on the progress of x” usually occur during the time they scheduled for making progress on x.

Data collection should be carefully planned.

So many data-driven folks don’t understand this.