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.

Situational Awareness in Instructional Design
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/28/situational-awareness-in-instructional-design/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

There is no one

My vacation start Friday, bit we changed travel plans

Planning for Innovative Technology
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/27/planning-for-innovative-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Apparently it is "change everyone/s title to something that sounds more important" week.

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.

I manage an LMS. Half of the requests are to get more notifications half are to get fewer. The rest follow the how-to to set their own notification preferences.

Cooperation vs. Collaboration
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/26/cooperation-vs-collaboration/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Wisdom
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/23/wisdom/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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.

Leaving to Learn
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/22/leaving-to-learn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“We came from monkeys” is proof your comments about biology do not warrant attention.

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.