Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Some Observations of Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/19/some-observations-of-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The temperature outside is an example of data. With no context, data has little meaning and it can be reported with precision that can be objectively evaluated.

My first computer arrived on my desktop about 10 years before the Internet became available to consumers, so the only data in my computer were those that I created or those that I loaded using floppy disks (5 1/4 inches). I am not sure that was so bad compared to today.

We need to rethink writing. If we understand it as a tool to help us learn rather than a tool to restate what other have understood, we might be able to convince students to take it seriously.

Here is your regular reminder that the saying should be "always state the opinions upon which you base your facts."

Data. Cherry picking is the one way to ensure it always supports your dumb idea.

We can't replicate human cognition in computers. We don't understand it well enough. We might create it unintentionally, but we won't construct it.

Elevator Pitch on “New Teaching”
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/18/elevator-pitch-on-new-teaching/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Computers Listen and Shout https://hackscience.net/2024/06/27/computer-listen-and-shout/

Throughout the industrial age and into the information age, most of the knowledge and skills necessary to be literate and numerate were relatively known and stable.

Unless one relearns to walk as an adult, the increasing difficulty of walking on different surfaces and slopes is not obvious.

"His skill was primarily that of turning what appeared to be answers to puzzles into new and more profound questions." Imagine if we taught students to develop this skill?

On #edtech Audits
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/14/on-edtech-audits/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The web is built using protocols and rules that are available to anyone to use without the need to pay anyone or seek any one's permission. It kind of argues against "propriety ensures invention."

Universality is one feature of the web that allows for innovation; anyone can create a service on the web that can then be connected and reconnected by anyone.

In organizations that comprise adult users who have very specific data and resource needs and reasonably well-developed keyboarding and language skills, security and other policies that ensure high functionality pose little obstacle to technology acceptance. I schools that is not always true.

"The slow progress in modifying curriculum and instruction to reflect the emerging IT-rich world has been a theme in the educators’ professional literature for decades."

This is not wrong.

Shared dogma is often confused with objectivity.

Exercise and Authenticity
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/13/exercise-and-authenticity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I have the (well-deserved) reputation of being very accurate with predictions about decisions leaders will make. When asked "how do you know"? I respond, ""I always predict they will make the worst choice they have."