Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Vulnerabilities and Their Effects
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/10/vulnerabilities-and-their-effects/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
― Carl Sagan

I work with a "big idea" person who gets frustrated folks don't help her implement her ideas. Most of us who can implement big ideas are too busy implementing our own to help.

On Language and Humans
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/10/on-language-and-humans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“By its very nature, a system of government schools for which everyone must pay but which only the most politically powerful can control is doomed to failure.” -Neal McClusky
The same san be said of most other social systems.

I jump on AI once a day and start a conversation with me until it is clear it is not a human. It usually does not take more than a few minutes. Maybe I am a bad promoter . Maybe I am too critical . Maybe it just isn't that good.

Learning is demonstrated through increased fluidity and flexibility as learners apply their expertise with greater ease and in more situations, not their answers on tests.

Multitasking is the mythic capability of people to perform more than one task at a time.

I'm at the age tht I have decided to no longer gives advice to leaders who have rejected by advice in the past.

The diversity of our learners and the diversity of the situations for which we are preparing them is contrary to the practice of standards in education.Yes, it is necessary that all children have advocates for what I tweet to be acceptable.

I really don't understand those who would prefer to build jails rather than support those who need some help.

“In the age of AI, expertise is more important than ever.” I gotta agree.

Your data are fine, but your analysis is unreasonable.
Your data is flawed, but your analysis is fine.

Both are common among data driven folks.

Beliefs are personal affairs, and personal affairs are adventures, and adventures are, if you please, shady. -John Dewey

Walking into the supermarket today, someone approached me and asked me to participate in a political act. I said, "You gotta be kidding." He indignantly said, "I didn't ask for your opinion" as I walked past. I stumped for politicians when I was younger. If you can't deal with rejection, you should avoid it, you do more harm than good to you candidate or cause.

The more I read about and use AI, the more I think it is similar to past technologies. It will affect our lives in irreversible ways, and the more active any of us are in using it, the less scary it will be and the more we will benefit from it.

When leaders tell folks to “staying in your lane” they are telling folsk to ignore how others' work affects you and to ignore how your affects others. It is terrible advice.

Once you decide on a test, you are no longer focusing on what you are trying to improve.

“I will rejoice in the multifariousness of nature and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

Tests that are not independently reviewed are just propaganda.