Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Local flooding is becoming a 2-3 times per summer event in the area where I live and work. When I was a child we would have similar events every couple of years.

Proficiency-Based Education
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/13/proficiency-based-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Great blog. No I won’t share it because of the excessive advertising.

One reason science is skeptical of “old home remedies” is it is designed to provide causal explanations. It isn’t enough to conclude “this happens,” they seek to know “why it happens.”

Every technological innovation become obsolete.

John Dewey Was Right – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2023/09/10/john-dewey-was-right/

Why anyone eats apples that are not Macintosh is unfathomable to me.

Types of Knowledge
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/12/types-of-knowledge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo Galilei

Cold Closure in #edtech Repairs
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/09/cold-closure-in-edtech-repairs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
- John Dewey

I have a son who is living in Hawaii. For two years, folks have been telling me I need to take a vacation and go see him. Now that I have booked it, folks are complaining that I won't be available for a week.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
- John Dewey

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Alber Einstein

On the Need for Translators in #edtech
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/09/on-the-need-for-translators-in-edtech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
- Stephen Jay GOuld

“You did a great job and we’d like you to do it again this year” is leader speak for “I have no idea what you did, but no one complained.”

Can we stop with using natural selection as a model for change in society? It’s a terrible metaphor.

Don’t conflate your prejudices with facts.

If you claim objectivity, you demonstrate you are not.