Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

If your curriculum only includes clearly defined problems, you are not doing it right.

"We have always done it this way" often is a good reason when it comes to IT. Our past decisions determine what we can do in the future.

When I taught, I would tell jokes on occasion just to see who was paying attention and to get the attention of those who were not. Students didn't want to be left out of the joke. #teacherlife

My Elevator Pitch on Data
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/26/my-elevator-pitch-on-data/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Seriously. Use the microphone.

Appropriate Proper Reasonable https://rss.com/podcasts/apr/

I read differently when interacting with print and audio… yes both are reading. Sometimes, reading one makes me conclude the book deserves to be read in the other as well.

Maybe we start subtracting environmental costs from the calculation of GDP.

Open
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/25/open/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Leader: What can I do to help?
Worker: Tells them.
Leader does not do it.
Leader asks again: What can I do to help you?

And leaders wonder why we don’t trust them.

In 17th century France, someone my age would have lived through (maybe) two or three major epidemics. Were they the good ole days to which we want to return?

I’m convinced human nature is technological. As a species, we have never been without it.

We seem disquieted by technology that is not predictable and humans who are too predictable.

AI has no user guide.

IT folks can maintain systems, we can uninstall them.... or we can just let them degrade.

My Elevator Pitch on Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/06/24/my-elevator-pitch-on-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“AI is good at recognizing patterns, but wisdom cannot be delegated to machines.”

Recent observations conform incompetent leaders are threatened by competence and seek to remove it.