Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
Even if it doesn’t make sense, put it in a Venn diagram, and folks will take out their phones to take a picture of the slide during your presentation.
Some of the things that were once the hallmark of human cognition have been shifted to the environment for a long long time. Books and paper & algorithms for calculation two that dominated until recent decades. How we respond determines the effects.
Generative AI seems to resemble any other source of information. When it is accepted without question humans run into trouble.
I have extended family members who share news, but say “ don’t tell anyone.” I go into the other room when they enter. I’m too old to keep track of it.
I asked a group of folks from disparate industries at a social gathering recently “are your clients concerned about AI?”
The most common response: “They are losing their shit.”
Why yes, I do my own research. See that stack of peer reviewed articles on my to read like? And yes, I have done some original studies myself.
“Don’t be so open minded your brain falls out.”
Maybe just loosen it up and shake it about.
What Gould Wrote About Intelligence
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/29/what-gould-wrote-about-intelligence/
#edtech for #edleaders: The Evolving World Wide Web
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.
Gary Ackerman
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Mankind was created ignorantly blind- gaining enlightenment by creating questions.
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
- On the web:
- https://hackscience.education/
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator
Joined Nov 2022
