Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

So much “data-driven” decision-making starts with the decision and then finds the data.

IT and Users: An Inverse Relationship
https://hackscience.education/2017/12/21/it-and-users-an-inverse-relationship/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It is OK to say, “I don’t know,” when asked what do you think.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: Competent teams and individuals do more with fewer resources than others. When they push back or leave, they are demonized.

I work in #edtech. I have found lots of ways to tell folks “that tool that you adore… it really sucks.”

Sure, money may not be the motivator within a population that we think, but I maintain it does affect the composition of the population. In my years as a STEM teacher, I often heard students making career plans, and for 35 years, potential earnings was a factor.

Telling people about things is not the same as explaining them.

A note to students: emailing “I’ve been on vacation” as a reason you haven’t completed the course work may not be well received.

The argument that we see no evidence for advanced extraterrestrial life is because complex life becomes unstable and destroys itself is starting to seem reasonable.

Abstruse calculations does not make your idea true.

If you see certainty in your data, you are analyzing it wrong.

Those patterns you see in your data… they may be the result of randomness. How can you tell the difference?

Being willing and able to be uncertain is a sign of a logical thinker.

And that teacher immediately storms off leaving you to clear the jam.

One of my favorite things to do is see the puzzled look when “data-driven” leaders celebrate a positive change, and I ask “might this just be regression to the mean?”

Curriculum Repository
https://hackscience.education/2017/12/19/curriculum-repository/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Training, Learning, Design
https://hackscience.education/2017/12/18/training-learning-design/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“AI is biased and inaccurate…” so it’s not so different from humans.

“You can learn it on an app” is evidence you don’t understand human knowledge… or apps.

On my commute, I listen to a radio station based in New Hampshire. The political ads are starting. My initial thought is the next 15 months are going to be interesting, and I’ll read to a lot more audiobooks on my commute.