Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

If you are a leader who does not pay attention during presentations, especially those being made by your members, you lose all credibility.

“With a bit of imagination, nothing can be truly anomalous.” -Stephen Jay Gould

The fact that science has proven itself wrong is not evidence that pseudoscience is correct.

“Numbers do not guarantee truth.” -Stephen Jay Gould

Students often don’t find resume writing workshops valuable because they recognize there is too little for them to add. But advisers don’t let that stop them.

“The worldwide event happens at midnight.”
Um… can you be more specific?

Dealing with Conflict – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/09/15/dealing-with-conflict/

Not to leaders: if you want to understand the article, you need to read more than the title.

We can hardly expect folks to follow conventional grammar rule as autocorrect “fixes” so many to be wrong. Sure we could edit it, but we are posting to social media during meetings, so who has time?

“I have an open door policy” is leader speak for “if you have a problem, I’ll be busy.”

“Students have the right to do anything.”
“Students must follow our rules without exception.”

Reality, and functional schools, lies between those extremes.

One thing I have learned over 35+ years in education is how to spot attempts to pull me into conflicts and how to avoid reacting when someone tries.

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.