Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Don’t be the teacher/ faculty member who puts the “no excuses” section in your syllabus, then be long-delayed with grading/ feedback. Yeah, I know, but I’ve been in your student and I’ve been your colleague trying to justify your actions.

Has anyone every reduced a manuscript to meet the space limit and not improved its quality quality?

“As I made clear in the syllabus” (or in the email or announcement or other place, physical or virtual) is often not true, except to the writer.

Yeah, we all make typos... don’t take the time to fix them in meetings.

So much IT frustration arises from ignoring recommended procedures.

“Do you have evidence for that?” is an unwelcome question in many situations.

If your meeting is scheduled with an end time, end the meeting at that time!

I once read an article by someone who described how to take UFO photos (decorated pie plates tossed of the roof etc.) One of my greatest regrets is I never did this with students.

“Whose time will be saved?” Determines which technology projects get prioritized.

Illustrating your point by referencing pseudoscience does not strengthen your argument.

Is it better to have every online course at you school consistently formatted in a disorganized way (“we all used the same crummy template)? Or is it better to have courses inconsistently formatted, but each in an organized manner (“we all did our own thing well”)?

Ethical researchers must safeguard subjects' privacy and preserve their right to withdraw from the study without facing any penalty.

We should be more careful with data for education.

In the context of wicked problems, every solution and interaction with it becomes a permanent part of an individual's experience, implying that all data collection is significant and can have lasting effects on subjects.

A blog post on ethics, now with audio:
https://hackscience.net/2018/04/13/on-the-ethics-of-data-collection-in-education/

Ethical education research demands respect for subjects, the process, and the community. Always prioritize well-being. #EduEthics #ResearchResponsibility

Today it was difficult to avoid responding, “in the time it took you to compose this email, you could have answered your own question.”

@toddconaway That sentence made me laugh, until I realized those who are “good” at teaching, know their stuff, and attend to students make it look like the students are doing it themselves. Maybe we call it “tacit design?”

Looking at my transcripts, you can tell when I no longer cared about grades. My classmates in undergraduate education courses were aghast. My prof’s (who were John Dewey fans) nodded and smiled.

Is it just me or are images that show steps unnecessary? If the process has bounded and definable steps enumerate them. Putting the in boxes with arrows doesn’t explain them with any more clarity than a list. Projecting the list? Just capture the steps in single large words.

“Under the cloak of empirical evidence...” so many bad (and unsupported) ideas are accepted.