Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The Baldwin Effect: An Old Idea from Biology that Explains Organizational Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/08/the-baldwin-effect-an-old-idea-from-biology-that-explains-organizational-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"“It can pay to cooperate if fates are intertwined.” - Erico Coen

There is rich evidence that cooperation rather than competition is a strategy associated with long-term survival of life.

Technologies serve human needs.

Data driven decision making is summarized as a step-by-step process: a) we administer a test, b) identify deficiencies as demonstrated in the data, c) take remediation actions to address those deficiencies, and d) find the deficiencies reduced when a test is again administered. Its also a myth.

#edtech for #edleaders: Understanding IT Management
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/08/edtech-for-edleaders-understanding-it-management/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries, they also make very poor observations.”

We often fool ourselves into thinking what we measure actually reflects what we want to know.

Good theories have heuristic power. They help us discover new things.

Science depends on interpreting observations as much as making them.

Doubting everything is pretty much the same as believing everything.

Ethics and Data Collection in Schools
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/07/ethics-and-date-collection-in-schools/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I know enough to realize a single data point is meaningless.

Learning New Technologies
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/05/learning-new-technologies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Want to make a "data-driven" leader stare blankly? Ask them how they corrected for race, gender, income, or any other relevant variable.

Scientists define and control variables. "Data driven" leaders forget this principle of science.

Scientists seek to identify not only correlation but causation. Good scientific theory allows us to explain cause and effect relationships, and thus to make predictions: If we do A, it will cause B, because of this mechanism.

"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night." I hope. you al find this, but the outcome is different.

Be A Bricoleur
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/03/be-a-bricoleur/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Changes in #edtech over the decades: More systems have become digitized (student information systems, library card catalogs, and learning management systems are examples of digital systems that were non-existent).