Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Data-driven?” Some of us don’t take your word for it... and we can tell.

“How can I help you?” and “Here is how I can help you.” Often get us to the same place, but the pathway may be different.

I work in IT in education... and have for decades. When leaders ask me to change systems to make it easier them, but I know it will make it more difficult for students and faculty... I do not make the changes... and I tell them why.

Their response is always telling.

Questions that make “data-driven” leaders stare blankly... “What biases might have affected your sampling technique?”

That scenario you concocted to justify your decision... yeah, things probably won’t turn out that way.

Most decisions are “complex, high stakes, poorly defined, and made under stress,” does your “decision-making" curriculum really reflect that reality?

“Unbounded rationality is not how people think.” Ain’t that the truth.

I’m convinced learning in “real-life” and classrooms are different activities... Dewey was referring to schools that are much different from those we have. #edchat #education

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.