Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Paraphrasing Ashley Montgu: For science, certainty is elusive, but exploration is constant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
-Richard Feynman

“The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

On Learning – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/09/26/on-learning/

IT Goes Mainstream: The Most Influential Trend in Recent Generations?
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/03/it-goes-mainstream-the-most-influential-trend-in-recent-generations/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I see folks doing other stuff during virtual workshops and meetings. No big deal. What bugs me is when those folks are teachers who later complain about inattentive students.

Basic Operations of Technology
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/02/basic-operations-of-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

That link that did not expect in your inbox… don’t follow it! 🤦‍♂️

So many accommodations we make are simply good teaching.

We’ve been asked to identity our “super powers” in a meeting. I’m finding it hard to resist the urge to say “recognizing self-delusional statements.”

Forget teaching how to do taxes, if we teach the paradox of knowledge (“If you think you understand it, you are wrong”), we might be able to make better collective decisions.

Old (Fordist) versus New (ICT)
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/28/old-fordist-versus-new-ict/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Folks who come in to lead small organizations who have never worked in them have no idea how “departments of one” function. And it shows.

“Meetings to update us on the progress of x” usually occur during the time they scheduled for making progress on x.

Data collection should be carefully planned.

So many data-driven folks don’t understand this.

“What do you think?”

It’s ok to answer, “I don’t know enough to have formed an opinion.”

When you insist the meetings you lead be in-person only, you demonstrate you are not dedicated to inclusion, not matter what you claim about yourself.

There continues to be so many educators who conflate quite with attentive.

‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans | Florida | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/23/florida-desantis-book-ban-school-student-parent