Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Elevator Pitch on User Accounts
https://hackscience.education/2024/10/18/elevator-pitch-on-user-accounts/

The designers have their concept of the problem they are solving, but once it gets into the hands of users, they determine which problems it will solve, how the solutions are realized, and what is done with it that the designer never imagined.

"I need help immediately" is always accompanied with "I didn't start until it was almost due."

“Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.’ Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.”
― Jared Diamond

If you are certain, you are not a scientist.

“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”
― Jared Diamond,

Reading audio books is reading.

Please don't claim to be an inclusive institution when your senior leaders refuse to use microphones when they are provided.

If you can see new problems, you will not be replaced by AI.

"How does AI work?"
The question was asked in the student forum, nit the faculty forum.

Seriously... If someone else assumes responsibility for a project your first reached out to me about, then stop including me on the emails.

Support of educational technology is a multidimensional aspect of school leadership. Too often it is just handed off to a single person or team.

All that work you did to make the graphs look fancy obfuscated the message.

"Actionable" is the business speak that I find most silly.

Sure, you might have lots of data, but if it isn't accurate, what is the point?

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: Leaders usually have no idea this year's initiative is contrary to last year's initiative.

Achievement is useless without learning.

“There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.”
― Richard Feynman

Ask your students ... and believe what they say... they know much more that your think!

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
― Richard P. Feynman