Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group | Computer Weekly https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group

Conspiracies exist. That is not proof every conspiracy theory is true.

“Don’t believe everything you are told.”

The problem is we’ve generally lost our individual and collective capacity to judge the quality of information.

Heck, we couldn’t even get folks to create Boolean searches, what makes you think we can get them to be prompt engineers?

The “just ask AI” crowd seems to have a low standard for quality of information.

I wonder if the committee making these recommendations includes any individuals who made the recommendations that forced the previous president to resign.

That chaos in your organization… it is planned.

My wife is in a support position in a school. She observed a “problem child” last year. My wife told educators “they can’t see,” but was summarily dismissed. The children returned to school with glasses. Guess what?

I was half way through a meeting with dispersed folks yesterday when “the test” happened. One of the six participants did not get it by the time we ended.

Lots of folks contributing to a shared resource makes it overwhelming in short order. There is no technology that will make it less overwhelming.

The great thing about science is the fact that nature gets to decide who is right.

When I speak with young folks, I’m optimistic about the future. When I talk to folks my age, I’m not so optimistic.

Humans learn from sound, motion, faces.

That collection of data about you that is online… you have never controlled it.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: Our lessons aren’t that great. Update. Revise. Refresh. They will get better.

Open cultures support creative outputs. It may seem counterintuitive, but it has been demonstrated.

We cannot ignore AI. We cannot hide from it. We need to adapt and adopt.

I work in #edtech. I spend half of my time answering requests to change default settings from x to y and the other half asking me to change them from y to x.

“Generative AI. The information may not be factual, but it is there.” Seems a low bar to me.

I dislike excessive emails too. I’ve decided to either learn to change my notification settings or ignore them.