Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Can we agree electronic textbooks/ access codes are an impediment to accessing education?

Bias is multidimensional. By understanding where it originates, we can better correct it. - Achuta Kadambi

Wonderful rain today.

One bad teacher can ruin the subject for students... permanently ruin it.

So many grading systems in courses seem to be grounded in Taylorism... and I'm not sure that is appropriate.

Nonlinear relationships, networks, decentralized control, probabilistic systems... does “standards-based” teaching really prepare students for those characteristics of society and systems?

"People. While they go mad in herds, while they recover their senses slowly and one-by-one." - Charles Mackey in 1841

"Written words stand still."

But through annotation we change that character.

Nonlinear relationships, networks, decentralized control, probabilistic systems... does “standards-based” teaching really prepare students for those characteristics of society and systems?

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.