Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Learning objectives help improve performance on tests... the problem is that performance on tests does not correlate with long term learning.

If all of you curriculum can be reduced to objectively correct answers, then you aren’t really contributing to your students’ education.

If your rationale is “accountability,” I don’t want to hear it.

If you are fighting against replacing your school’s racist mascot, I’m going to assume you are racist. Yes, I am judging you... for your actions.

If you are voting via Zoom, tell folks how to abstain.

To what end? is an important question. Sometimes the answer is “because it is the right thing to do.”

Interesting how those who admit they lack expertise speak with most authority.

Much that is done in the name of pedagogy is really just exercise of control.

Facts are facts, but interpretations and perceptions of them—even those that are mutually contradictions—are as factual as the facts themselves.

Framing problems and solutions is the most important and most ignored part of the process.

“Be skeptical. But when you get proof, accept proof.” –Michael Specter

"Root causes." Are these based on perspective? I think, "yes."

Go ahead and define success and measure how well you are meeting it. Folks who disagree with your definition will not buy it, but go ahead and congratulate yourself anyways.

If you are the person who always must speak at the meetings... always... and immediately... and your “questions” are "not really questions." No one is listening, not even the presenters.

The reason people don’t get behind your cause usually isn’t apathy or indifference or ignorance. They hear and understand your point, but they have their own problems and priorities which are more pressing... or they think you are full of bullshit (used in the technical sense, of course).

"Brain skip or sign of aging?"

I did search today... wanted to limit to the last 5 years... typed 1996 in the "from" box.

I usually don't let such things bother me (certainly they don't bother me enough to post about it), but the misuse of "myself" is really grating my ear (and the voice that reads in my head) recently.

Hey software publishers... don’t tell us you are committed to accessibility when your templates and recommended themes are full of pastel colors and light colored font styles.

The fact that standards are rewritten regularly should be reason enough for everyone to look at them in a critical manner. Ask “should we do this?” rather than state “we should do this.”

Kind of thinking the “log in from an unrecognized device” warning arising from setting up the new tablet that arrives at the inbox 90 minutes later would be too late “if it had been a real emergency.”