Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

When news of Abraham Lincoln’s death arrived in some areas by telegraph, it was thought a hoax because of how the news arrived. Have things changed?

I’m often asked by faculty who are leaving to “nuke” their online classrooms to prevent others from using their materials.

“Get rich quick with AI” seems today’s snake oil.

Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play

When I taught computer courses, I’d have students start with a word processing file and write their names on the first line, then explore changing fonts, colors, etc. while I walked around learning their names.

When I Started Computing

https://hackscience.education/2023/09/04/when-i-started-computing/

Students don’t believe the best teachers, at least the teachers don’t want to be believed.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to escape from it. -Ortega y Gasset

“Electronic media is incompatible with rational discourse” may be correct.

Hey designers… can you stop adding elements to your images that make us think our screen are dirty or cracked? Yeah, I get we look closer, but you are more likely to alienate users (esp. me) than to get clicks.

Design Your Teaching – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2023/09/04/design-your-teaching/

I’ve been closely tracking my income and assets for over 10 years. I do know how I’m doing compared to 4 years ago.

Sometimes I envy those who do not feel compelled to be reasonable and logical.

I live and work on digital platforms. But if I am serious about doing it, I wrote it on the index card that contains my to do list.

The ethical dilemma: Will AI make our lives better or worse? - TechNative https://technative.io/ethical-dilemma-will-ai-make-lives-better-worse/

Teachers on donorschoose is an embarrassment. Disallowing your teachers from posting projects I s even worse.

Cognitive Load Theory
https://hackscience.education/2018/03/08/cognitive-load-theory/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If your response to a question is just “sharing resources” (you know the same ones you have been sharing for 5 years… that list with the dead links), then you are not really doing your job.

I work in school IT. I spend my time giving individual instructions to faculty who don’t attend the workshops. Those are the same faculty who complain students don’t attend class.

Facts change. Some things we once thought were wrong. That’s the way knowledge works. Deal with it.