Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Do not assume your recollections of your education are accurate and do not assume your interpretation of the importance of your education is accurate.

“Doing technical work is just one strategy among others.” Especially in education, one is tempted to articulate a single preferred method of teaching the curriculum. Designers recognize the many solutions in the instructional space and explore them in specific situations.

Students come to you from different places and they are going different places; do not assume the path you took is the one your students are taking.

"Students should be active architects of their won learning." That sure sounds like something I would have written, but AI generated it after processing a chapter I wrote.

One of the most distressing realizations one makes when they become a teacher is that the best plans one makes for the classroom are just guesses.

Technology-based teaching can be unpredictable as they are driven by students’ interests and rely on diverse source of information, and the products of students’ learning emerge as the projects progress.

“I have approximate answers, possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure about anything.”
― Richard Feynman

Give me an interesting and relevant problem and dig into it.
Give me a learning outcome and I'll ignore it.

Curiosity. AI can't do that.

I say we call it what it is. Drivel.

My entire adult life has been spent observing pseudoscience. The last few years of misinformation are all so familiar.

Thomas Edison worked on devices to communicate with the dead reasoning the devices at the time were tricks. After all this time, they still are.

That would be great… if only it were true.

I’m not familiar with the psychology literature. Is hthere active research on gullibility? I expect that’d be a rich field right now.

Used book sales are the greatest events. I miss them during New England winters.

In 1997: “The Internet is currently in a state of chaos with no controls.”

It seems the chaos is controlled by scoundrels today.

When new technology arises, there are interesting new questions that arise. If you can identify them, you will be valuable for a long time.

Regardless of one’s perceptions of generative AI, the reality is that it will be a permanent part of the educational technology landscape.

Elevator Pitch on User Accounts
https://hackscience.education/2024/10/18/elevator-pitch-on-user-accounts/

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.