Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.” Just a reminder that we don’t want this for our children or ourselves. #data #education

“Ideas are integrating patterns that satisfy the mind.” -Theodore Roszak

“Learning to let go of an inadequate idea in favor of a better on is part of a good education.” -Theodore Roszak

For generations, “they” have been trying to replace good #teachers with #technology. You can replace a bad teacher with IT, but not a good teacher.

I've stopped giving feedback to work that was written by AI.

Totalitarian regimes contain fatal errors, but the leaders believe their own lies, so failure follows.

“genuine dissenting views can enhance group performance.” - Cass Sustein. I'm sorry to break the old news to leaders and happy to be among those who have provided dissenting views. #leadership #LeadershipDevelopment

“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 Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded❞ - Stephen Hawking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