Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

In science, extraordinary claims by individuals are checked and rejected. In politics, they become talking points indefinitely.

“I spent all summer making the terrific infographics for my courses. What do you mean alt text?”

The Realities of the Digital World
https://hackscience.education/2017/12/04/the-realities-of-the-digital-world/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#students #technology #computers #schools

IT Users in Schools
https://hackscience.education/2017/12/03/it-users-in-schools/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#education #edtech #technology

Empirical evidence. This is what differentiates science from other types of knowledge.

The longer I work in education, the less confidence I have in the testing we use as a meaningful instrument for… well anything other than filling time and causing stress.

The IT We Need: Appropriate, Proper, Reasonable
https://hackscience.education/2017/11/27/the-it-we-need-appropriate-proper-reasonable/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#education #technology #edtech

#edtech tip of the day: Bold the text in you file before putting the mimeograph blank through your dot matrix printer to be sure all the characters show up.

I saw a performance recently in which teachers were portrayed as uncaring. A colleague who knows my background asked, “wasn’t that unfair to teachers?” I responded, “No. It accurately reflected a significant part of the teacher population in with embarrassing accuracy.”

What if we ask folks to add to our culture, not fit into it?

Writing and content generation are different things. One creates something worth reading, the other fills pages.

I think we need to start using the term “snake oil” more widely. It describes so accurately much that is advocated in today’s information landscape.

Some events we dread the most end up getting cancelled.

Teaching is about mediating content. Learning is not.

Hey students… the existence of the notes doesn’t matter. The thinking you do when you read/ listen and summarize then write it down… that thinking is what matters. Don’t be fooled by the advice to “have AI take your notes.”

Shouldn’t all cognition that happens outside the brain & body be called artificial intelligence? I believe it should, and the history of these technologies give us a view if the future once the hype over generative AI is over.

I’m old enough to remember when we were advised to avoid Cliff Notes and other summaries. Now they are encouraged to have AI summarize books. Is any of this different from researchers using abstracts to get a sense of the article?

You get to the end of the course you are teaching and students conclude it was a waste of time. How do you respond?

What? Why? And How? – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/08/07/what-why-and-how/

Access to information isn’t a problem. Curating it, analyzing it, interpreting it, evaluating it, applying it, creating with it are the tasks that should occupy learners’ time today.