Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Failed searches increase when your institution's reputation gets known... and folks start talking about salaries.

As presented to educators, 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. Too bad it's a myth.

The recent generation of AI seems to have some properties that were not there previously.

It be great if politicians actually paid attention to science.... you know... logic, observation, reason.

It's interesting to me when I see students get excited about anything, but their teachers see it and reject its importance.

Types of Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/12/types-of-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The less fully one accounts for variables, the less certain the cause-and-effect relationships.

The students got the answer right on the test. This should not be confused with "they know the answer:' there are lots of alternative explanations for correct answers

"I’ve looked for it and found lots of rhetoric, but not studies reporting that direct evidence gathered in schools.” This has been my entire career in education.... but I started my preparation only 40 years ago, so it might be the result of recency bias.

Education is based on the myth that test scores accurately reflect one's ability to use what they have learned in other situations..

Please don't confuse "ethics" with "this of things you should not do."

Types of Memories
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/11/types-of-memories/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Your ideology is going to determine in large part, your cognitive biases... those determine what what you “know" to be true.

When we stumble upon a paradox, everything that leads to it makes sense, everything has been done right, everyone has answered questions truthfully, so we are accurate and true, but a contradiction remains. Let's not avoid them when teaching.

Scientists ask:
1) if the question was reasonable;
2) if the methods provide the data necessary to answer the question;
3) if the correct data was collected appropriately;
4) if data were properly analyzed; & the conclusions are logical & supported by the data.
Leader rarely do.

Data and information, which are the focus of instruction, are still needed, but alone those do not represent adequate education.

Once you have a way of thinking, you attempt to solve all problems through that method.

What you define as “natural” is grounded in familiar technology.

Before scientists accept an observation, other independent scientists must document the same observation. This requires science be done in a public and open manner and scientists must report what they did so that others can criticize and verify.

Brain Development
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/10/brain-development/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon