Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

A new episode of my podcast is available.
https://bit.ly/3J0jtfP

OK folks, we’ve been Zoomjng for 4 years now. Can we finally get into the habit of not eating on camera. It’s not a good look.

John Dewey suggested thinking should be like blacksmithing. We judge its quality by its outcomes. Sure… but don’t we think there is something beyond behavior when it comes to cognition?

Try thinking in a manner that you avoid self-contradiction. We used to value that character, but today it’s way too common.

Reality cannot contradict itself.

Becoming Educated
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/19/becoming-educated/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I used to work with a person who overreacted to almost every situation. Folks started ignoring them when they went on their rants and walked away when they started. It was effective, although they left the organization complaining about the toxic environment on their way out.

The temperature outside is meaningless. The context in which we know it makes it matter. I sure wish folks cared more about context than they do about data.

Context and Curriculum
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/18/context-and-curriculum/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

No IT professional will be satisfied if their systems are perceived to be difficult to use or ineffective, but they must believe users.

Let's stop saying "we have a small sample size" when we mean "we don't have much data."

Want to see a "data-driven" leader stare at you blankly? Ask them, "Why didn't you use a random sample?"

Who is in your sample? How do you know it is representative of the population?

Todd Snider was right:
They say sixty-five percent of all statistics
Are made up right there on the spot
Eighty-two-point-four percent of people believe 'em
Whether they're accurate statistics or not

Standardizing education is fine, unless we need graduates who can solve non-standard problems.

I am accommodating ... sometimes to a fault... so when I adopt "tit-for-tat" it is noticeable.

This is why we should no depend on AI to write tweets: "Phone ringing on voice recognition? New feature idea: ‘Answer the call or scream louder until it stops ringing.’"

Diversity of Computing
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/19/diversity-of-computing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’m old enough to remember the building that was torn down to build the building that they just torn down.

“Innovative” often isn’t.