Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

How can you assure yourself of failure? Focus exclusively on the parts and ignore the whole.

If you can script your lesson, you are part way to preparing it... as soon as you discard it, you will be most of the way there. Once your lesson responds to students, you will be there... until you do the same lesson with new students.

Thinking and learning is an emotion and cultural and cognitive endeavor... teachers who focus on one aspect to the exclusion of the others will fail. #education #teaching #teachertips

“An information bomb is exploding in our midst.” Toffler was right.

I’ve received a number of “we are updating our terms of service” notices from services that I have not the faintest recollection of ever hearing about.

Mean is such a silly measure for understanding human variation... except for some physical attributes.

Just because it is free does not make it #open.

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?

Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you

Me: Not now Dad... the physician coming down the aisle is my former student.

The rationale for automation is that production can be standardized for the purposes and outcomes management deems worthy or desirable. #education aligned with this model is something we need to avoid... actually... we need to reverse.

If the answer to my question is definitively in a database or spreadsheet, then I’m asking the wrong question.

“Ironically, computers that can violate personal privacy do not assure public access.”

Information is not our problem. Relevance, quality, honesty... those are the problems with our information.

Strange... my acquaintance who tweets and blogs in a manner that supports wild conspiracy theories and debunked myths complains he cannot get hired in a field that requires accurate analysis of data.

A post on Access databases for students:
https://hackscience.education/2025/06/02/introduction-to-access-databases/

I always have deep respect for those who leave toxic organizations. One cannot change organizations with narcissistic leaders or other toxic situations. Those who stay become part of the problem. #leadership

Yes there are some great teaching tools... think-pair-share, exit tickets, critical explorations, etc.... but when they are used all the time, for every lesson, they become annoyances that are not taken seriously by students. #TeachingIdeas #teachertips #TeachBetter #teacher

"Yeah, I know a thing or two now." Lyrics that comprise the soundtrack of my life.

“It seems impossible to analyze education... without considering its relationship to the world for which it prepares people.” It seems many who define #education policy are not familiar with Jean Lave and others with quotes like this. #school #teaching

Maybe get the syllabus and look it up... it’s called modeling... a very effective teaching method.

“Several decades of practice tell us this is important.” OK, but is there research to support your practice?