Dr. Gary Ackerman
@garyackermanphd.bsky.social
Teaching. Learning. Technology.
https://hackscience.education
Political science
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Sociology
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The Ethics of Educational Platforms: Data, Privacy, and Technoethical Audits
152: The Ethics of Educational Platforms: Data, Privacy, and Technoethical Audits I am reviewing some recent books and chapters I have written as I prepare my next book. As I review, I am have AI b…
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A blog post focusing on cloud computing in schools and the ethics of using them in schools:
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Not Your Average User: Why School IT Is Different from Business IT
This is an AI-generated post based on a chapter from a book I published under a Creative Commons license a few years ago When we talk about Information Technology (IT) in schools today, we are almo…
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A blog post differentiating school IT from business IT. Generate by AI from a chapter form a book I published a few years ago:
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Yes, you have freedom of speech, but do do those who are shouting you down.
I’m at that age when my wife (we were in high school together) talk about people, places, and events; and no one knows what we are laughing about.
Yes, I know your position. No, that does not mean I have to agree with your ideas.
I taught for decades. I now have a “real job,” but still in education. I always work through my lunch. Colleagues find this very unusual.
The most rigorous self-proclaimed “data-driven” leaders tend to be troubled the most by the question “how do you know?”
When you start believing your own “data” you are doomed.
“If we do this, that will happen.”
Nature often disagrees.
Nature often disagrees.
The dysfunction in an organization is proportional to the number of members who “pass the buck.”
You can tell much about leaders by watching their actions at “mission critical” events. In education, watch them interact with students.
If one can only use math to answer questions on a test, does one really know math?
There is nothing that makes a teacher smile more than seeing a former student (who was a pain) dealing with their misbehaving children in public.
Mutation is random. There long-term effects are not. It produces the appearance of design, but appearances can be deceiving.
“It’s human nature” is using followed by an opinion given by someone completely unfamiliar with what we actually know about human nature.
If your organization insists on silos (e.g. this department must fix those problems). But departments are unresponsive, then folks will find workarounds, many of which degrade the systems.
I see lots of commercials for prescription drugs. They say to ask your doctor about it. It’s a six month wait to see a doctor in my area. I couldn’t get those products even if I needed them, yet the commercials continue.
What is the proper reaction when the speaker on DEI has slides with inaccessible text and graphics?
"Objective assessment" is impossible.
One thing I learned during 30 years as a teacher: 8th grade math (substitute the grade and subject of choice) isn’t really a thing.
“Skepticism” and “rejecting evidence” are not the same.
The economic models used in education for the last several decades assumes an economy of scarcity (get it and keep others away to ensure its value), but human knowledge doesn’t work that way. We know more when those around us do too.
Probably the worst thing that happens as one goes through school is their BS detector is removed.
“I’m going to use this technology to counter this other technology, thus returning things to the way they were.”
Yeah. This is a recipe for disaster.
Yeah. This is a recipe for disaster.
If you think generative AI is going to be trouble for education, you should read what they said about paper.
Is making assignments “ChatGPT-proof” the same as “making them more effective to support writing and thinking?”
A person in his mid-30’s posted “This generation is ruining everything.” I hate to break the news but they said my generation ruined everything back in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Teaching & learning in school is strange… students must engage and teachers must accommodate. Both must participate actively, and it’s easy to blame the other when one doesn’t do what they should.
When we cherry pick, we can find data to support any idea.
have a colleague who occasionally gets a “bee in their bonnet” over something trivial, then drags me in to it by using my name by claiming I support her. Don’t be that person.