Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Review of Disrupting Class – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/25/review-of-disrupting-class/

Review of The Shallows – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/24/review-of-the-shallows/

Some of the most pleasant days are the hot days before everything warms up and cold days before everything cools down. Those who can differentiate temperature from heat known what I mean.

Review of Wisdom – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/24/review-of-wisdom/

Science follows rules upon which idealized practitioners agree. When we reach concensus, nonideal individuals can work as the ideal.

On Creativity – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/24/on-creativity/

Early in my teaching career, I knew a curriculum leader who said his job was to keep the pendulum from swinging too far either way. He understood different methods are appropriate for different purposes. Educational leaders have lost sight of that reality.

Brain Plasticity & Learning to Walk – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/23/brain-plasticity-learning-to-walk/

Science follows rules upon which idealized practitioners agree. When we reach concensus, nonideal individuals can work as the ideal.

What Stephen Jay Gould Wrote about Change – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/23/what-stephen-jay-gould-wrote-about-change/

If you and your friends are anti book, then you can be sure I will not support you in any way and I'll work to minimize your influence.

“That’s the way it used to be done” isn’t evidence we should return to it.

So many of the trends leaders tout are regression to the mean.

Towards a More Sophisticated Model of Learners – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/10/towards-a-more-sophisticated-model-of-learners/

Backwards Design – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/06/backwards-design/

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar A. poe

5 R’s of OER – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/05/5-rs-of-oer/

If we knew then what we know now, your education would have been much different.

Design Defined – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2018/04/04/design-defined/

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein