Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Technology is socially constructed. The designers have their concept of the problem they are solving, but once it gets into the hands of users, they determine which problems it will solve, how the solutions are realized, and what is done with it that the designer never imagined.

The "games" scholars conclude are effective teaching tools are not all of the things we call games.

Password Security
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/07/password-security/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“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.