Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

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

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. -Stephen Jay Gould

Three Questions about Assessment – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2017/12/27/three-questions-about-assessment/

The (Overturned) Standard Model of Education – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2017/12/26/the-overturned-standard-model-of-education/

Average is a meaningless measure. Variation is the reality of life.

IT and Users: An Inverse Relationship – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2017/12/21/it-and-users-an-inverse-relationship/

Curriculum Repository – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2017/12/19/curriculum-repository/

I’m quite certain students’ futures cannot be predicted by a test score.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. -Isaac Asimov

Learners: Past and Future – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/01/30/learners-past-and-future/

Students own their work… even if it is handed in as part of an assignment. Please don’t violate their copyright.

Theory and Practice in Education – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/01/29/theory-and-practice-in-education/

Areopagitica – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/01/23/areopagitica/

Data versus Evidence – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/01/22/data-versus-evidence/

Natural Impulses of the Child – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/01/19/natural-impulses-of-the-child/

Reflexivity in Technology-Rich Teaching and Learning – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/01/18/reflexivity-in-technology-rich-teaching-and-learning/

You know that technology that makes you uncomfortable… it not going away.

“I read this really big book in high school back in the 1980’s.” Today, I can’t get students to read it. There’s something wrong with kids today.

I hate to tell you, but most of your classmates weren’t reading them.

I’ve been reading Asimov’s Guide to Science. I’m convinced human curiosity is our greatest asset.