Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“The loss of individuality makes society vulnerable to herdlike behaviors ranging from mob violence and warfare to mass panic and allegiance to dictatorships.”

“The effort was worth a try, the least we could do was fail.” #leadership

A blog from years ago that still needs attention:
Enough with the "Learning Styles" Already! - Scientific American Blog Network https://t.co/pTnUFEl4B2

A myth is an event that never happened that people keep talking about.

If you can identify important gaps in your field, then you have expertise worthy of attention.

Anyone else think diagramming sentences helped them become better #writers?

Humans adopt #technologies that fit with their nature and beliefs. Economic or other advantages are secondary.

When a technology “fails” (you may define failure any way you wish, and your definition may change depending on the situation) answer these questions:

“What would have made the technology easier to use?”
“What would have made the technology more useful?”

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler

Advocates who speak with assurance they understand #learning and they know *the* method of #teaching are charlatans. They may deny it, but they are. #education #teacherlife #highered #highschool #teachertips

Great article from 2018 on hallucinating AI.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181204-why-we-should-worry-when-machines-hallucinate

OK, I get using protocols to facilitate interaction, but if you *always* use the same one, then I assume it is just part of your recipe, and you neither value interaction enough to do it yourself nor value the input of participants to attend to it rather that your protocol.

“Often a focus on hocus-pocus of pseudoscientific jargon and dubious quantification is all that links technocratic style to rational inquiry.” -Andrew Feenburg

We are compulsively, biologically, obsessively social. -Lewis Thomas

Just because you believe it does not mean it is not true.

The greatest benefits to health came from plumbers, not physicians.

“The most dangerous of all courses is to begin doing things without even recognizing the existence of a system....” -Lewis Thomas

Do the simple things, but do them really well.

In basic science the shots can never be called in advance—or by definition the enterprise is not basic science. -Lewis Thomas #science

I’ve been observing a team that gets “most of the way there” when planning for student-centered learning... then someone brings up “assessing the standards” and it all falls apart. I’m convinced the two are incompatible, and schools must design, value, honor both. #education