Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Some problems are mine alone. Others are solve with my team. Yet others, I assist in solving. But there are some that are not mine.

Differentiating them is essential to being a productive worker.

It’s one thing to find literature that supports your view, but you research doesn’t begin until you read that which does not support your view.

There is no one more expert than a person asked to join a committee whose work marginally on a topic about which they know nothing.

In my experience, once educators understand students and how to put them at the center of teaching, they changes their practices in an irreversible way.

Meaningful feedback from some lessons can be automated, for other lessons it cannot. If you lessons don’t include both, you are missing the point.

The fact a large part of society has been convinced to abandon science with devastating effects is going to be what the early 21st century is known for.

If you aren’t ready to do the work… the real work… the stuff you are asking others to do, then you are not ready to lead.

Yes, I am more qualified than you to comment on some things. Decades of study and experience qualify me. I may not be correct, but I can justify my stances. And I know where my expertise ends.

Answers to math, physics, chemistry tests really don’t matter. It’s what happens in nature that matters.

I’m an atheist working in a public institution. One new colleague has taken to saying “god bless you” at the end of each conversation. It really annoys me.

Some things need to be repeated: “Personal incredulity is not evidence.”

Can we start calling it what it is? Drivel is my proposed word.

Here is your regular reminder... people are not motivated by logic, reason, or data. They are motivated by identity.

I support online teaching. I get "I hope you are having a good weekend... can you fix this before 8:00 on Monday?" emails over the weekend.

Great blog. No I won’t share it because of the excessive advertising.

Every technological innovation become obsolete.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo Galilei

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
- John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
- John Dewey

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein