Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Competence is one’s capacity to perform. Competencies are one’s perceptions of their competence. These may not be the same.

“I don’t know, let’s figure it out,” are words frequently spoken by the best leaders and teachers... but it must be sincere. #leadership #teaching #teachingstrategies #edchat #education

The world is much more interesting if you don’t know the answers to life’s big questions.

We adopt tools. We adapt our work to leverage the capacity if the tools we adopt. We exapt novel and unintended uses of tools.

Redesigning a course with two colleagues recently... textbook would cost $150... yeah, the search is on today for an #OER that meets our needs. It would have been irresponsible of us to do otherwise.

Hey educators... please stop blaming students. It is unbecoming... and when you do it in job interviews, you don’t get hired... actually keep doing it in job interviews, it is easier to know whose applications to discard.

“Vivid” is a terrific word. Let’s find and share more examples of what is vivid.

“increasing focus on memorization and testing has been observed in education, including early years, that leaves no space for active exploration and playful learning” We know this is bad for students and society, yet we persist. #education #teaching

It is better to have doubt than it is to be certain about the wrong conclusion.

“By the time we are able to act on the world, our ability to learn has drastically diminished.” Bruce Wexler made this distressingly accurate observation of humans.

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty,” said no #DataDriven leader ever.

Humans tend to deny, discredit, forget that which disagrees with them. It does not serve use well in a global village.

“organizational members are unlikely to hold common perceptions of readiness when leaders communicate inconsistent messages or act in inconsistent ways,” it is almost like some #leaders are not familiar with the literature in their field.

I’be been reading lots on learning theory and research in the last couple of weeks... books, articles, handbooks. Why am I not reading about “measurable outcomes?” I mean, as much as we hear about them, there must be theory and research supporting their importance. Right?

How much resistance to change is recognition that one is not prepared/ qualified for the new systems?

Stephen Jay Gould on Intelligence Tests (IQ), the Nature - Nurture Controversy 1995 https://t.co/MIgb0Hgi32 in case you need a dose of reason to temper your focus on tests. #education

Just because a fact is true, your interpretation of it may not be.

It seems time to read Jared Diamond’s Collapse again.

The most useful theories are not true or false, but modifiable.

"The passion [to comprehend] is rather common in children but gets lost later on." -Albert Einstein