Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

A post for my data analytics students:
https://hackscience.education/2025/04/29/data-reports/

The author who wrote: Positive attitudinal change benefits learners, industry, society (my paraphrasing) sure seems to be ignoring the importance of defining “who defines positive?” #education #leadership

If you can identify important gaps in your field, then you have expertise worthy of attention.

No plan is perfect. If your methods do not allow “on-the-fly” adaptations, then your interventions will fail. #leadership #LeadershipDevelopment

Assumptions so “obvious and natural” that we are not conscious of their effects are among the greatest limits to our actions.

Humans adopt #technologies that fit with their nature and beliefs. Economic or other advantages are secondary.

When a technology “fails” (you may define failure any way you wish, and your definition may change depending on the situation) answer these questions:

“What would have made the technology easier to use?”
“What would have made the technology more useful?”

#edtech

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler

Metacognition requires awareness of one’s processes and control of those to be applied and regulated to improve thinking in other settings or for other problems. This is a far more rich construct than is used by many teachers. #education #teaching #highered #highschool

“As Bruner minds us, a theory of instruction is a political theory and those who formulate pedagogy without regard to the wider educational context merit being ignored.” #education #teaching

Advocates who speak with assurance they understand #learning and the know *the* method of #teaching are charlatans. They may not know it, but they are. #education #teacherlife #highered #highschool #teachertips

Ambiguity and amiability are the characteristics of human communication.

“Innovation is not an inherent social good,” is a true statement. “The status quo is not an inherent social good,” is also a true statement.

The best way out of any dilemma is research.

In basic science the shots can never be called in advance—or by definition the enterprise is not basic science. -Lewis Thomas #science

The problem with clear objectives to start your lesson is they are abstract at a level that distracts students from the task. #teaching #education

Lev Vygotsky wrote, “A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action”

When we seek clarity in classrooms, we often discard ambiguity which helps students find connections and prompts them to ask questions. #education #teaching #teachchat #TeachBetter

Trying to be a wise guy in class, I said, "you can do more gooder than that." A student responded "Can't you say that in an 'efficiencyier' way." That is my new word!

Don’t confuse a possible interpretation with a logical inference.