Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Whch of your problem are tame? Which are wicked? Once you recognize them, you can start addressing them.

Hey IT users: "The thing broke again" doesn't really help us.

we are at that time of the year when the "it's in the syllabus" crowd are sending email asking how to do the things in the "course set up guide" they all received a week ago.

Educational reform in the last several decades has been horizontal as schools commonly jump from one initiative to another with little reason.

In cultures with primary orality, formal education is offered through apprenticeships. Through these educational systems, young people learn the skills, knowledge, activities, and interactions that are necessary for participation in complex endeavors.

What exactly do we mean by "learning?"

If you can't adapt to new situations, you missed and essential part of your education.

All of those benefits your predict... many won't happen... and many problems you never thought of will affect your success as welll.

“Yes, remembering information is important, but if your students only remember what you tell them to, they will be poorly prepared for their future.”

Imagine education that emphasizes complex problem solving which requires learners to apply what they have learned in unfamiliar situations.

The longer the time scale, the more difficult the problem.

The larger the solution space, the more natural the intelligence necessary to craft good solutions.

Defining Intelligence https://hackscience.net/2024/08/05/defining-intelligence/

Educators have a far less complete idea of the factors affecting their students than they believe.

"Faster [computers] just give you the wrong answer more quickly." -Stuart Russell

He was not wrong.

When faced with conflict, don’t make it worse.

The most flawed educational proposals proceed from the position that education is an engineering problem, and thus we can build educational systems can be built to create systems that produce measurable achievement reliably.

Humans are learners. Humans are also the products of their environments, and once something from the environment is learned it is very difficult to unlearn it.

I look at twitter once per day... I'm glad I have decided to stop posting there.

If you call student "kiddos" or adult "rock stars," you need to stop.