Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

My short-staffed team is heavily scheduled. Events we support have doubled since the return from COVID. Faculty are the one group on campus who refuse to use our scheduling tool. Those who complain the most are the same one who complain students don’t read the syllabus. 🤦‍♂️

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: No matter how carefully practices are defined by researchers, by the time they reach teachers, they have been transmogrified into something much different.

Conspiracy theories are so tiresome.

“One thing we learned during COVID is that students don’t want remote lectures.”

Yeah… it’s the lectures part, not the remote part.

Wicked Problems
https://hackscience.education/2018/01/01/wicked-problems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When I started at college 40 years ago, I was amazed by syllabi. I still am, but for different reasons.

You can keep your beliefs, but I’ll take empirical observation… especially observation confirmed by others and that accurately predicts other observations.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is so obvious when talking with parents about teaching.

Folks know my background, so they ask me “is this a weed?”

I respond, “do you want it to grow there?”

They respond, “it depends, is it a weed?”

Can we please stop referring to students as kiddos?

Just because you are “in charge” does not mean your ideas are worth following.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: it’s almost impossible to differentiate those who did well in prerequisites from those who did not by looking at current performance.

“I know lots of people who…” isn’t evidence.

The feeling that you know something can be the biggest impediment to actually learning it.

Ignorance is not nearly the problem that the illusion of knowledge is.

“Budgets are moral documents” is the most accurate thing I’ve heard recently.

If your classroom protocols are not faded, then they are not working.

Learning is an interesting phenomenon. How it proceeds depends 100% on the learner *and* 100% on the teacher/ coach/ mentor.

I played trumpet for about 3 months in elementary school. I learned a lot about how not to teach from the music teacher. (This is a comment about an individual, not a generalization.)

It appears certain types of teaching (e.g. basic knowledge we can tell and test) can be best done by AI. I still see many teachers who believe this is their role.