Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

A healthy relationship with ChatGPT will necessitate educators (and students, parents, policy makers, and politicians) recognize products are not evidence of learning.

Change or Die is Still Timely
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/05/change-or-die-is-still-timely/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The best writing teachers (at least time ones I encountered over 35 years in the field and another 17 as a student) understood the multifarious nature of writing and the many tasks that make one a good writer, so their grades were based on more than the final composition.

I came of age at a time when electronic calculators where first becoming available. Until then, “pencil and paper” was how we calculated, and even though we slogged through and found answers, we didn’t really understand math.

AI generates text with which one can generally not dispute, but it gives little clarity or insight either... for now.

"it's all inaccurate" is a sure sign it isn't.

At what point are you complicit in your employer's incompetence?

#edtech for #edleaders: Facilitating Conditions
https://hackscience.education/2019/11/01/edtech-for-edleaders-facilitating-conditions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Some Thoughts on Online Learning
https://hackscience.education/2019/10/31/some-thoughts-on-online-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Observing is fine. Explaining is where we start tonight understand.

Libraries being described as “transgressive pleasures” is my new favorite thing.

Cheap, Good, Fast: Choose Two https://hackscience.net/2024/06/23/cheap-good-fast-choose-two/

How will we know if AI develops intentions?

When we are testing students (dialogistic or evaluative), we aren't teaching them.

Without search, the vast information resource we have available are useless. Generative AI is making search much more user friendly.

“I don’t care what the network lets me do, as long as I know what we can do and it works every time. Otherwise, I won’t trust it enough to plan my lessons around it.” That teacher's advice to school IT folks needs to be clearly understood.

Whereas access to mass media was controlled by the expense of printing or broadcasting a few decades ago, any of the two billion individuals who carry a smart phone can capture an image or video and publish it to a world-wide audience quickly (measured in seconds) and inexpensively (margin cost is near zero).

There is evidence that such periods during which one information technology replaces another that was dominant are marked by turmoil as social institutions adjust to new capabilities and new expectations; recent generation have been living at an extended period of change.

I have often wondered if my perception that I was not a strong math student was the result of the D that showed up on my report card in fourth grade; most of the students in my classes when I taught math perceived me to be a good math teacher, the data collected and reported about me as a child notwithstanding.

Ostensibly, data-driven education is undertaken in an attempt to apply the objective and reliable methods of science to education, thus remove doubt about what educators are doing.