Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

When I begin phrasing a question to a leader who interrupts and answers the expected question before I’m finished (asking a different one), I realize the organization is in trouble.

I’m becoming convinced that “professional neutrality” is an oxymoron.

When well done, the work of some professions causes controversy. I place #education in that group. Well-educated #students challenge assumptions, push boundaries, and question... all of those result in controversy. #schools #highered #highschool

Sometimes when I talked with faculty and teachers about what their students will create, I see very puzzled looks.

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” – Fred Rogers

The “big idea” #leaders who tell others “just make it happen” often don’t realize their ideas are actually not that great.

If you think the problems you face today are the same ones you faced previously and that the same solutions that worked previously will work again, you are not paying attention.

“Just as the spirit of the artist is in the things the artist makes, the spirit of the child is in the things the child makes. True education helps children discover and revel in that spirit.”
- Friedrich Froebel

If your focus is on making sure you can measure it, then it is unlikely you will nurture it. #learning

I just finished reading a (non-fiction) account of someone challenged to a duel. Because he was challenged, he decided on sausages as the weapon. He was to eat the cooked one, the challenger the uncooked.

When I begin phrasing a question to a leader who interrupts and answers the expected question before I’m finished (asking a different one), I realize the organization is in trouble.

So much of our “biology” emerges from physiology and environment.

The best #edtech is that which can be used for things never intended by the designers.

Article about illness on cruise ships contains advertisements for cruises. I wonder how many “click-throughs” result? How many bookings?

Maybe I misunderstand advertising

Innovators change how “things” are done. Some innovations are accepted and diffuse through the community, most fail to “catch on.”

If you have one answer, you don’t understand the problem.

Yeah, your infographic is slick... but if you don’t give me enough information to take a look at the origins of your data, I’m not going to take it seriously.

Cashless isn’t faster. Just saying.

Facts are established by checking against observation... and having one’s conclusion verified. It is called science. Those who are illogical or irrational have their “facts” challenged and discarded. That’s just the way it is.

One data point is *not* a trend.