Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

A blog post, now with audio, focusing on measurements and education:
https://www.hackscience.education/business-and-politics-are-not-teaching-and-learning/
#schools #education

No institution can truly claim to be an inclusive community dedicated to equity if they are not taking their responsibility to create accessible materials seriously
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No amount of data satisfy those who do not want to be convinced.

If your primary role is to prevent problems from reaching your boss, you are not “part of the team” and your proposals will never get attention.

All generalizations (including those that are contradictory) are always accurate for a minority sub-population.

If every teaching problem can be solved with one tool, you don’t understand it. "it" is either the tool or teaching.

Just because you experienced it in school, does not mean every one did... or should... or even that you did it at all. Human memory is that bad.

Yeah... if you attend the "advanced" training, please avoid asking the presenter to show how to do "stuff" done in the "basic" training.

I used to write notes on paper in meetings in my own “scrawly” short-hand. I claim it was an analog encryption method.

Is delivering content and tracking views (which any worthy LMS can do well) teaching?

You don’t get #students to understand ideas by learning definitions of more terms.

What if education was based on building what doesn’t yet exist?

Taylorism was *not* designed for education.

A blog post, now with audio, on teaching information-rich fields:
https://www.hackscience.education/education-for-information-rich-fields/

“Observation is the only means for us to ascertain whether or not the picture that we formed is correct.”

Interdependence is the basis of effective organizations.

I just read a piece about how #OER textbooks are a "disruptive innovation." Sure, they might interfere with textbook profits (if we can continue to increase adoption), but I think it is disingenuous to suggest they will disrupt #education. #teaching #school #highered

I encountered “infrastructuring” for the first time... the more I think about it the more I like it.

Knowing “things” is of limited use... knowing how things interact... that is useful.

When ideas become popular, they are appropriated by everyone for everything that makes ‘em vacuous. I once heard (seriously), “I want my students to learn, so my lectures are the real ‘student-centered’ teaching.” This was from a 5th grade teacher... who lectured!