Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

My entire adult life has been spent observing pseudoscience. The last few years of misinformation are all so familiar.

Thomas Edison worked on devices to communicate with the dead reasoning the devices at the time were tricks. After all this time, they still are.

That would be great… if only it were true.

I’m not familiar with the psychology literature. Is hthere active research on gullibility? I expect that’d be a rich field right now.

Used book sales are the greatest events. I miss them during New England winters.

In 1997: “The Internet is currently in a state of chaos with no controls.”

It seems the chaos is controlled by scoundrels today.

When new technology arises, there are interesting new questions that arise. If you can identify them, you will be valuable for a long time.

Regardless of one’s perceptions of generative AI, the reality is that it will be a permanent part of the educational technology landscape.

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.