Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Your claims lead to reasonable predictions. If you don’t observe what was predicted, you were likely wrong.

“We covered that before...” is a signal one does not understand how brains work or how teaching must done if they are to learn. #education #teaching

“How sad that we live in a culture almost dedicated to wiping out the leisure of ambiguity and the creative joy of redundancy.” - Stephen Jay Gould

A blog post for students in my database design and management course:
https://hackscience.education/2025/06/11/database-schema/
[https://hackscience.education/2025/06/11/database-schema/]

Much that is intuitively obvious is also wrong.

I’ve been reading some of the agile projects management literature recently. Educators might want to take a look to see if they are going to survive the future of their institutions.

If your answer is simple, you do not understand the problem.

If you are certain of the answer, you are most likely wrong.

If you are not the *one and only* person who determines if you reach a goal, do not set it.

“We will never solve problems with this same level of consciousness we used to create them.” Albert Einstein was right.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.... Bertrand Russell was right

Criticism in #edtech has been needed for decades. Asking “Why?” has been met with incredulity since the Apple II days.

A blog post on parge language model, now with audio:
https://hackscience.education/2025/05/07/large-language-models/

A blog post for students in my database design and management course:
https://hackscience.education/2025/06/11/database-schema/

A blog post for students in my database design and management course:
https://hackscience.education/2025/06/11/database-schema/

Darwin used vox populi, vox dei (the voice of the people us the voice of God) to suggest “knowledge that we all know to be true” often blocks understanding. He was right.

Problems. Interesting problems.
I have taught long enough to realize they are way more important than learning outcomes.

“Students didn’t do the reading, so I must lecture...” maybe if the reading led to an interesting and engaging activity in class, they would do the reading?

Seriously, how did we eat pizza before they started making hot honey?

Seriously. How did we write before citation management software?