Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Cheating tells us much more about the teacher than the student.

I often think of the time I thanked a principal who told me in a meeting I was not being a team playing and helping with his initiatives. He was dismantling the middle school and returning it to a junior high school.

I have the distinct memory of getting in trouble in kindergarten (in 1970 or 71) for coloring one of the rabbits gray when we were told to color them brown. I wanted one to be the color of our pet.

Yeah, I was *that* kid, and my attitude is the same now.

Sometimes I look at the ads I see in my feeds and wonder “what could I have possibly clicked on to make the algorithm think I wanted this?” Other times I think “the algorithm must be drunk today.”

Your debriefing protocols... is there a way to capture unintended consequences? Assuming, of course, you recognize them as outcomes of your work... which you probably don’t... so never mind... I’ve answered my own question.

If “punishment” is part of your pedagogy, you should just walk away quietly from work as an educator, and if you don’t, then you should be dragged away making whatever noise you will.

“Not all causation is linear...” yeah that seems right.

Be a skeptic, but not an obstructionist... there is a difference.

One of the best parts of being a skeptic is the look of disappointment on a conspiracy theorist’s face when you suggest an explanation informed by Occam.

I’m suspicious of all proposals or models with alliterate summaries.

I’m at the end of my 38th year working in education. I’m still fascinated & curious about the craft & have more questions than when I started.

The one thing I do know, however, is that *everything* written and said about teachers (the good and the bad) is true... for some.

"Learning doesn't consist in being an empty receptacle." - Mortimer Alder

No matter how much you like a particular teaching strategy, it isn't always appropriate and some students will stop engaging if you always use it.

Just because you have a strong opinion, I’m not obligated to take it seriously.

Did teachers react to the introduction of slide rules in the same way they reacted to calculators?

"Power knows the truth already, and is busy concealing it" -Noam Chomsky

When chalkboards were introduced at Yale in 1837, students objected as they thought if they didn't memorize it, then they weren't really learning.

“Throwing money” at a problem and “fully funding” systems are not the same.

Whenever I interview for a job, I make a joke in the first minute. The response of the group tells me to either “answer quickly and get out of here" or “give honest and complete answers.”

If you are a teacher who can be replaced by a video, you should be." Yeah, I can't argue against that one. #teaching #highschool #highered