Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Episode 8 of the Appropriate Proper Reasonable podcast dropped.
https://rss.com/podcasts/apr/

"What do you need from me?" tells me that you are distancing yourself from the project and are not even willing to understand what your might be.

“I will rejoice in the multifariousness of nature and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

Yes, you can read books by listening to them.

I heard "humanware" for the first time today. I hope it is the last.

AI writes the most incredible posts. Here is an example: “The best debugging tool is a cup of coffee. If that doesn’t work, try turning it off and on again.”

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

Yeah, let's not rel on Ai for jokes. We get stuff like this: Why don’t programmers like nature? Because it has too many bugs.

Most organizations don’t want innovation regardless of what they say.

Exploitation, plunder, fraud are often conflated with hard work.

Luck determines who succeeds, but other things do as well.

Yeah... you might think you can be apolitical... but you can't... and that is a good thing.

Accessibility... if you claim to value "inclusivity," but to not concern yourself with those (of us) who need accessibility accommodations, please shut up.

Having data is fine, but if there is no theoretical framework supporting it collection and interpretation, then it is meaningless.

The disconnect between what counts as "learning" in school and what counts in the "wild" is striking.

"Students who have no chance of passing should stop coming to class." This sends a clear message to them that grades are all that matters.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: Folks react to language more than they do actions. We got push back on having advisories in middle school, so we called them homeroom and continued doing the same thing. Folks were content.

The worse part of working in #edtech is that folks expect there is a magic wand that will create the solution they envision instantly.

"There is no sure way to identify AI-generated text."
Feel free to direct faculty to this post when they ask.

"Let's talk with folks" is a much better strategy than 'let's survey folks."