Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Yup, I’m convinced over reliance on testing makes classrooms “unsafe places to fail.” That may be the lest criticism we can levy against these instruments.

A blog post on inquiry and authentic assessment, and my percepts they have been abandonded.
https://www.hackscience.education/inquiry-and-authentic-assessment/
#education #edchat #schools

Knowledge that us useful in your classroom or those like it, but nowhere else, has no place in your curriculum.

“What counts as wrong?” is an interesting question.

When you get to your answer and realize you asked the wrong question, you are getting closer to answering it.

Online dictionaries that allow us to hear and learn to pronounce words are a real improvement over those I used as a child... I am one of those who read a far more diverse vocabulary than I heard, and this tool would have surely helped me.

For a group that holds “learn from your mistakes” as a mantra, many educators are surprisingly loath to admit them.

Recent listening suggests ZZ Tops' Fandango is the best live album ever released.

My generation survived high school with Cliff Notes. It gave us as much knowlegde of the readings as AI summaries give you knowledge of what happened at the meeting.

AI sumarizes of meetings allow those who are present to not pay attention.

In online meetings it is very important that you get to the point!

“Free and open exchange” and “taking conspiracy theories seriously” are not the same.

When you have been "taught" to distrust authority, then you become incapable of critically evaluating the credibility of messages.

We need a word for the random pile of books that appear when searching for references... I’m thinking it’s some kind of cairn.

“Vague, but interesting.” This may characterize some of the most important and innovative things we undertake.

“The stock market is not the economy” and “test scores are not learning” need to be recognized as congruent statements.

“But what do you mean by learning?” Yeah... most people—including educators who work in the same school—have wildly different answers to that question.

Philanthropists dabbling in #education never ends well.

“Listening to” and “learning from” are not the same.

If your students do well on tests, but are bored and not curious, have you accomplished anything?