Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Getting on a plane for the first time since Feb 2020.

Should teachers abandon the presentations that accompany their textbooks in favor of those created by AI?

“We’ll get to it as soon as I tell them all the basics they need” contains a condition that is never met.

In my experience, lectures can be made more interesting and interactive, yet they rarely are.

Hey IT: if falls say your system is rotten then it is.

“People don’t trust x” and “x isn’t accurate” are not the same.

I’ve worked in schools for 35+ years. Leaders who assign blame are familiar to me. Very familiar.

“Can someone help me find the research supporting this widely used teaching practice? I can’t find it.”

That’s because it doesn’t exist.

I’ve been in education since 1988. I knew their parents. I knew their grandparents. It isn’t young people.

I’m convinced there are two kinds of knowledge:

Things we know when tested in the classroom.

Things we use to solve pragmatic, critical, creative problems.

They are not the same. One doesn’t matter.

#education #teaching

When I taught math, I’d show my students my 4th grade report card with the D in math. I’d also show them the Cs in writing, then the books I’d written.

We have one of those who interjects themselves into every conversation offering bad advice in my workplace. As soon as she arrives, I walk away without saying anything. I highly recommend it!

I see items in my timeline suggesting Sept. 22 is a day long-predicted by religious communities. It is always interesting to read the spin when such predictions fail.

Clear definitions are great, especially when doing science. They are, however, things we impose on nature and they can start meaningless arguments.

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?