Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Confidence and error are a bad combination.” Few sentences ever written are more accurate.

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate... Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded❞ - Stephen Hawking

“The American framers’ largest innovation [was] their enthusiasm for disagreement and diversity, and their effort to accommodate and to structure their diversity”. - Cass Sunstein

Diversity leads to better decisions. If #highereducation is a place where we learn and practice better decisions, then more diverse campuses are better than less diverse campuses.

Sorry folks, but those are the facts.

“A man is judged by the company he keeps.” If you find yourself shunned, it may be because of this lesson we have taught for generations.

“But to get a computer to talk appropriately, we need an explicit theory of talking.”
-Patrick Suppes

Can we gen generative AI to explain this.?

“No amount of rules and facts can substitute for the know-how experts have gained from experience in tens of thousands of situations.”
-Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus

Some large language model may be challenging this reality.

Rules ignore context, which is why rule-based learning is of limited usefulness and why there are so many exceptions. #learning #education

Users’ perceptions are what matter most in technology systems. Students’ perceptions are what matter most in educational systems.

What if we started using the term “mentoring” rather that “teaching” to describe our work? And then changed our practice to reflect the new term. #education #teachers

Assumptions so “obvious and natural” that we are not conscious of their effects are among the greatest limits to our actions.

Five Layers of Educational Technology
https://buff.ly/3WZa5Re

A blog post on reflexivity in #edtech, now with audio.
https://buff.ly/4hzuvbB

Writing is often perceived as magic when first introduced into cultures.

The writer’s audience is always a fiction. -Walter Ong

#teaching is about forming relationships with #students and #learning together. Any other chatter about standards, instruction, competencies, technology, etc. is meaningless unless those relationships are established.

Is driving the mechanical act of operating a vehicle or a social act of sharing the roads? (Our collective answer matters.)

No surprise. #schools are less about relationships between #teachers and #students and more about systems than ever before. Outsiders are deciding the technologies that will “fix” education. The approach is doomed to failure.

Inert information is organized in no way, interpreted with no theory, places in no context. It really has no purpose. #data

“Does technology assure abundance?” - David Nye With information, the answer appears, “yes,” but the quality of that information is dubious. #technology