Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

All work is easy to automate, until you stop, look, see, and understand. #leadership #automation

“People learn more and are better able to apply what they have learned when they are instructed with both words and pictures than when they are instructed with words or pictures alone.” We know this to be true. #teachertips

A blog post now with audio:
https://hackscience.education/2018/06/11/capacity-for-learning/

Your actions can be malicious even if your intentions are not. This is becoming increasingly true in the world where are language is coming from biased models.

Teachers blaming students is like doctors blaming patients.

“I can’t think of another reason....” is not evidence.

“The ISBN is your friend.”

So, if you are a #teacher still focused on information, you need to stop. We are awash with information, but it doesn’t help us solve many problems.

uthor suggests 45 hours of lecture (a typical 3-credit course) can be distilled to about 15 hours of audio or video.

Lets not tell students to use AI to “ find a creative way to [enter a task here]. Let’s let them do the fun stuff themselves. Have them use AI to test their knowledge of (or let’s say) respiration.

“Generative AI threatens human interaction on social media.” Yes, I think it has.

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

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

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

Only cooperation constitutes a process that can produce reason. - Jean Piaget

“The mark of a good theory is that it makes coordinated sense of a string of observations otherwise independent and inexplicable.” -Stephen Jay Gould #science

“Scientific accomplishment is also a communal activity, not a hermit’s achievement.” What Stephen Jay Gould said about science applies to many human endeavors.

Framing the problem is as important as solving it... actually how it us framed will largely determine how it is solved... and how others judge the solution.

Don’t confuse “a situation that worked for me/ us” with “this is something *everyone* *must* do.”

I’m thinking whoever paid to get the psychic reading advertising into my feeds is not getting their money’s worth... also, I question the validity of the algorithms that sent them my way.