Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Let's be honest. Computers can be unreliable; they break when most-needed, and troubleshooting computers is a real hassle.

I came to computers relatively late in life. It was not until I realized that computers would serve me and my students well that I began an active computing life.

I don’t doom scroll on Twitter as often as I used to, but when I do, I can tell when I forgot to switch from “For you” to “Following.”

Good riddance.

We need to start saying this rather than “good luck” when it’s what we mean.

Sports gambling is about to be launched where I live. The advertising is relentless.

Leaders asked for feedback on candidates. I warned leaders not to hire someone. They did. It was a train wreck. I’m trying to decide if I’ll bother giving it again.

You don’t have to define the “Peter Principle” to me. I work in education, my career has been one long experience of working under it.

Natura non facit saltus… except for when it does.

If you are not looking for potential errors in your data, you can’t claim to be data-driven.

Lots of our scientific knowledge was both discovered and invented.

Nature is not compelled to follow your definitions.

An Old Adage Revisited https://hackscience.net/2024/01/02/an-old-adage-revisited/

Red herrings find us working hard to accomplish things that don't matter. They are more common that most dare admit in education.

If students leave you classroom and still see thew world in the same way, you both wasted your time.

Remembering is the least interesting thing we can do with information.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is usually not accurate.

The least interesting uses of technology is those for which they were designed.

Any technology you experienced during your formative years (think teenage years) becomes what we expect all folks to need. All earlier technology led to that epitome and all technology developed since is a degradation and ruins humans.

Computers remember much longer and with greater fidelity and reliability than humans. That can be useful, but it leads to lots of information that we really don't need.

Skepticism and "just asking questions" are not the same thing.