Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I took my first real vacation in years last week. I'm finally getting caught up. I'm wondering what that tells me about my work duties.

Here is your regular reminder that students are not "kiddos" and adults are not "rock stars."

Types of Eduction
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/12/are-humans-and-technology-separable/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Note to leaders: If you have to threaten folks to get hem to go along with you, its time to reevaluate your ideas.

I'm not interested in learning (or teaching) ideas that cannot be criticized .

Should alchemy be taught along side chemistry? I mean, some folks really believe it, and we should be fair.

Perhaps the most difficult lesson to learn as a teacher is that not everyone is as enamored with the subject as your are.

I recently had the opportunity to travel to an area where foods I don’t like are grown fresh. I realized I like fresh avocados (and a few other foods), not those sold in the northeast USA.

Towards a More Sophisticated Model of Learners
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/10/towards-a-more-sophisticated-model-of-learners/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If you are the only person convinced by your argument, it isn’t very good.

Backwards Design
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/06/backwards-design/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Echo chambers are real.

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