Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Yeah... It your organization is partnering with one of the test proctoring platforms... I'm approaching it with the same incredulity as I do advocates for learning styles.

“Right sizing” is the most disingenuous phrase in existence. If you hear it... run. Not because of the fact programs etc. will be cut but the fact that leadership chooses to use it.

Yeah... IT... can be stop using colors to label acceptable and unacceptable domains? Like right now.

When you keep asking questions, you find out “facts” are usually interpretations of events and observations.

I have a weird sense of satisfaction when I watch narcissists turn on each other (which they almost always do).

When self-described "data-driven leaders" are called out on their weak use of data... I gotta say... I kinda enjoy watching them squirm.

Great vision... glad you spent lots of time crafting it, but how are you going to get there?

“But, how will they learn if I don’t?” is a sure sign that 1) the person misunderstands learning, 2) whatever they are try to teach is not worth knowing, 3) they really really like power. #teaching #edchat #learning #parenting

Was your sample random?

That question should not cause a "data-driven leader" to ask "what do you mean?"

My father had only brothers (5 total). I had only a brother. My kids have only brothers. Today the fifth grandnephew arrive (all boys at birth in that generation). My two nieces ruin a perfectly anomalous family probability case.

Please don’t be that person who starts the meeting with “we want to hear from you,” and proceeds to yammer on and on. Did you see how polite I was there? I wanted to use a word other than “yammer.”

"Career and college ready" isn't a thing... never was... never will be.

On #edtech Decision Making
https://www.hackscience.education/on-edtech-decison-making/

A diversity of experiences is the foundation of all good teaching... at least that is the unmistakable conclusion after my 35+ years in the field. Now, if we can only convince others.

Contingencies determine what you can do much more than leadership does.

Unpopular opinion time: I don't think reducing students' performance to statements regarding their achievement of standards is any worse than letter grades.

I really don't get all of the negativity about #MOOC's that seems to have been resurrected lately... sure they never replaced #highered, but were they ever going to really? They seem to have filled a niche market that was unserved, and isn't that what is most valuable?

You know that finding that novices over estimate their skill while experts underestimate it?

It is very true for “the quality of my lectures” too.

I’ve always done work I valued and would do without pay, but never at a job I loved. In education, especially, the misguided initiatives, the toxic cultures, and the narcissistic leaders have driven me out of many jobs where I loved the work.

The data is always strongest for those things one deeply believes.