Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

What Gould Wrote About Intelligence
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/29/what-gould-wrote-about-intelligence/

#edtech for #edleaders: The Evolving World Wide Web

Pedagogic Hegemony
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/30/pedagogic-hegemony/

Connectionism Makes Sense
https://hackscience.education/2019/02/01/connectionism-makes-sense/

#edtech for #edleaders: Reporting, Ticketing, and Triage
https://hackscience.education/2019/02/04/edtech-for-edleaders-reporting-ticketing-and-triage/

Curiosity. I don’t care about you achievements, if you don’t leave school with curiosity, your education didn’t do what it should have.

It’s best to get your dousing rods to cross over plants that are adapted to wet soil.

Science accepts the challenge of ignorance.

I understand my observations can be faulty as can my logic, but I’ll still trust it over dogmatic authority any day.

Those whose authority is grounded in observation and who practice logic, in groups, are trusted as well.

When the tricks of paranormal performers are exposed, lots of folks continue believing the effects are real. Our power of denial sometimes are more powerful than our power of observation.

“The stars have larger agendas in which the preoccupations of human pettiness do not figure.” -Richard Dawkins

One thing I learned during 35+ years in education: Occam’s Razor is seldom applied when addressing school problems.

Research starts with a question. If no one knows the answer to it, then it might be interesting research.

“Quality” is manufacturing is delivering “what the customer wants” which is defined clearly and objectively. Such clarity and objectivity is not possible in #education and (I expect) some other fields.

“Science allows mystery, but not magic….” -Richard Dawkins

Jimmy Carter was right. The USA should have adopted the metric system.

“Technology also raises anew question about the nature of the ends themselves.” -Stephanie Moore and Heather Tullberg-Webb

Questions motivate students far more than learning outcomes.

One thing I learned during 35+ years in education: the philanthropists who have come to save the school are always wrong.