Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Sure, I'll reset my password... any chance you can fix the error that gets thrown when I try?

Ethical, Legal, and Responsible Computing
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/05/ethical-legal-and-responsible-computing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Tacit knowledge is what led me to accurately predict that a recently hired leader would leave within a year. They made it 6 months.

Usually, IT professionals arrive in schools with little knowledge of education beyond their experiences as students.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. - Cliff Stoll

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. - E. O. Wilson.

Education: Science? Art? Technology?
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/04/education-science-art-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. - Stephen Jay Gould

“Science is based on common sense; it cannot contradict it.” -Robert Oppenheimer

Through science we introduce order into seemingly chaotic existence.

Finding authentic connections between seeming disparate phenomena is the purpose of science. It is different from mythology in the authenticity.

Knowledge is asymptotic… we never really get there.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language. - Cliff Stoll

Curriculum Repositories Defined
https://hackscience.education/2018/12/03/curriculum-repositories-defined/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Teachers know their students… IT people in schools need to listen.

Guided Experience: Alternative to the Standard Model of Education
https://hackscience.education/2018/11/26/guided-experience-alternative-to-the-standard-model-of-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Imagine school in which students and faculty understood clearly where students would apply the skills they are practicing.

Imagine school in which every class was focued on students creating something that didn’t exist before they started.

Watch students using computer for "educational games." Soon you will be able to identify that students who are simply clicking through the problems and will admit, “I’m just guessing… if I get a good score, I just stop” when asked.

We probably cannot destroy all life on Earth, but we can destroy humanity, and for us there is no difference.