Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Knowledge in the head and knowledge in the world are not the same thing.

Do spammers really think putting Donald Trump in subject will make me open them?

"The Central Committee of the Party has examined my report and approved it." - Trofim Lysenko

Cool. How did the plants react?

When #science is interpreted as against a #political cause or party, bad decisions result.

As I become more tolerant of bad editing in social media, I become less tolerant of bad editing in edited and curated content.

#learning results from evolution of ideas. It is iterative, active, social.

Cooperative #learning is directed by #teachers Collaborative learning is directed by #students

Being a good #teacher cannot be reduced to a list of actions.

What parts of education theory are contradicted by schools

Not everyone teaches the way I do? Really? #education #teachers #schools #echat

#data is boring. #information is generally uninteresting. Give me #students & #teachers who value #knowledge and #wisdom and we will be OK

#students need to slow down to #learn but so many factors push acceleration

Without organizing structures, #theories we call them, #facts have no meaning.

What do you mean when you say a student "learned" the material? #teaching #edchat #education

Personal incredulity is not evidence. Just saying. #science #evidence #research #education

It is puzzling that we are concerned with principles of #leaning when designing #curriculum for #students but not for #teachers #edchat

Especially in #education #leadership is the process of building capacity. Capacity is necessarily flexible, adaptable, dynamic.

Meaningful #learning requires renegotiation of what leaner "knows," otherwise previous misconceptions return. #teaching #edchat #education

We are learning how brains work. Dewey & Vygotsky were right. Can we please start making sensible #education decisions?

Valid conclusions come only when data collection and instruments are open to analysis. #evidence #research #education #testing #edreform