Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Weeds are plants growing where they are not wanted.

So many experts prove they can be build rich reasonable evidence in one area, but be tricked into believing quacks in all other fields and in everyday life.

If you are certain, you are probably wrong.

Are those ads for cool gadgets that appear in my feed the 2020’s version of K-tel advertisements?

A one-day workshop to “ensure” anything substantive will change is a scam.

What if part of your courses focused on problems in which one can never know if an answer is correct?

Learning According to School: a blog post based on a old (undelivered) conference presemtation
https://www.hackscience.education/learning-according-to-school/

Ambiguity. If you curriculum doesn’t include it… no matter your subject, age of students… they aren’t really learning what they will need.

The more politicians and philanthropists meddle in #education, the worse it becomes for students, teachers, and our future.

"It's hard to teach someone who think they know." Ain't that the truth!

Hey trainers... brains cannot pay attention for as long as you think.

Just because the data exists, it doesn’t mean it’s valuable.

You make decisions based on data. Your data collection and analysis is terrible. What conclusions can we draw about your decisions?

Printing presses made texts stable in ways they were not when transcribed.

"Templates feel like plagiarism." Yeah... they are not :)

"We made the decision and the data are proving we were right."

I would be amazed at the ridiculousness of this statement, but I work in education, so I have heard it for decades.

So much “data-driven” leadership is about certainty, not accuracy.

If nothing will change your conclusion, then you cannot claim to be using evidence... or reason. #leadership

“Organisms suck orderliness out of their environment.” Yup, that’s the fundamental observation of biology.

I’m increasingly convinced that curriculum that is not put in context of problems and life outside of classrooms is an irrelevant waste of time.