Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

A post for data analytics students:
https://hackscience.education/2025/02/26/what-is-sql/

I find it distressing to see people, children and adults (too) settings goals over which they have little or no control.

How did this become the thing we were doin?

Too much information get in the way of thinking in the same way too many initiates get in the way of progress.

If your idea cannot be tested, I will reject it.

In our tough, complex, and partly random world, many features don’t make sense. It does not mean they are wrong, it’s just they don’t appear to make sense… to you… at this moment.

Stephen Jay Gould said this of Freud’s psychology: It “was bold, wildly beyond data, speculative in the extreme, idiosyncratic—and wrong.”

The same can be said of many ideas kicking around today.

Interdependence differentiates collaboration from cooperation.

Be willing to accept what you discover. Be willing to accept that you are wrong. Two characteristics that differentiate #science from #datadriven #leaders.

Sometimes AI generates insightful sentences. I have proof: “Numerical grading can shift students' focus from learning to merely achieving high marks, leading to a surface approach to studying and less engagement with feedback.”

Based on my summaries of articles and chapters I am very familiar with, I can safely conclude the best intelligence to use to read and understand them is your own, and you enjoy the benefit of being more able to do it again later.

"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in public and private life have been the consequence of action without thought." -Bernard Baruch

"The whole of science is the refinement of everyday thinking. " -Albert Einstein

“... most human effort around technology involves maintenance, repair, upkeep, and mundane labor.”

Every now and then, I impress myself with the quality of a sentence I write. Of course, the next day, I change it... but for that brief time... it was wonderful.

Do not confuse schooling and learning; schooling and teaching. They are done for different purposes and they are not necessarily related.

Metacognition requires more than reflection... one must recognize deficiencies and strategize to avoid or overcome them. #education #teaching

“Conclusions are the consequence, not the essence.” -Stephen Jay Gould

“You have to have a catcher, because if you don’t, you will have lots of past balls.” -Casey Stengel

Teachers blaming students is like doctors blaming patients.