Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Seriously. Stop posting videos of you ranting in your car.

What the Tofflers Wrote About Rates of Change
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/20/what-the-tofflers-wrote-about-rates-of-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Incremental change in organizations takes so long that it is abandoned before any effects are observed.

If you allow folks (students included) to set their own goals, you must accept them.

The degree to which teachers reject interventions that are really just good teaching methods because of the name applied to them (UDL is an example) is shameful.

“What do we mean by x?” It gets tiresome to answer thus question all the time, but it is necessary that we do.

Facts can be corrected. Myths cannot.

Frameworks Defined
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/20/frameworks-defined/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I quit vegetable gardening because the rabbits always ate everything. This year, my neighbor had his first garden and the rabbits left it alone. Also, the foxes had been seen more this summer than usual.

Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/17/teaching-crowds-learning-and-social-media/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’ve never started a game of credential poker, but I’ve never lost one either.

“Things went just as expected” is my favorite response to that question.

“No, I won’t go to the conference held in Florida.”

I started listening to Jimmy Buffet after hearing Warren Zevon reference him during a concert in 1983.

Putt’s Law & School IT
https://hackscience.education/2018/02/15/putts-law-school-it/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’m still surprised when folks take out their phones and scan QR codes when they aren’t sure their origins.

Hey IT: If you make major changes to systems just before classes start, don’t get snotty when people complain.

I work in education. Verschlimmbesserung is so common it must be purposeful.

The best lessons are designed not planned.