Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Delusions can be a hallmark of psychosis....” that’s not my conclusion, but it sure seems valid.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. - Alvin Toffler

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagen

Yesterday, I went to a store with the intent to purchase a device I needed. My budget was $500. An employee walked past me with two other customers. The customers needed something that was locked. The employee said, "and you know why that is" and carried on with the customers about how terrible the town is because of liberals. I left and with my $500 in my pocket.

A blog post on the capacity of computers, designed for school and technology leaders.
https://www.hackscience.education/capacity-of-computers/
#edtech

Do technologies exist in isolation from the skills to use them? I think, “no.”

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. - Alvin Toffler

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. - Stephen Jay Gould

The problem is from the definer’s perspective. The situation may remain problematic for others, and the solution may make it worse for others or introduce new problems into the system.

Is Moore’s Law and observation or a benchmark?

“Freedumb” is my new favorite word.

Invention. Innovation. Diffusion. The three phases of change.

Yeah... those of you who are insisting "online test proctoring" is needed... make sure you have taken a test using one.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

“One way to define technology is in terms of evolution.” Yeah, this seems accurate.

“The best way to invent the future is to predict it-if you can get enough people to believe your prediction.” -John Barlow Perry

The first “picture phones” were rejected by consumers as they feared they were invasive? (To paraphrase David Nye in Technology Matters). What changed?

“We only think when confronted with a problem.”
― John Dewey

I think Dewey was on to something here... and I'm not sure #educators have figured this out yet. #teachers #schools #highschool #highschool #education #edchat #edreform

“A problem well put is half solved.”
― John Dewey

Unless of course, it is a wicked problem.