Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Indignation does not strengthen your argument.

“Entitled people feel victimized by bad luck.” Lots of questions, but this sure seems to accurately capture the real world.

How much of what you know exists outside your brain? More than we are led to believe in school.

Recent conversations have led me to conclude many who have advanced degrees... including those with science and math backgrounds don't understand "correlation does not mean causation."

Hey teachers... stop conflating your interest with relevance to students.

The stories in any workspace... that is where the real wisdom exists.

The answer to a technology problem is rarely another technology… well at least if you seek to resolve the problem.

Write down everything you know about data ethics and how you practice it. If it is difficult or your find you are just making stuff up, you aren’t a “data person.”

The purpose of data is not to make you look good.

“Leaving a deeply engraved comfort zone typically requires us to vehemently fight against ourselves, but it is freedom always worth fighting for.” -Ron Folman

Mimicking the masters is useful in education… but for only a (small) fraction of the curriculum.

We were sitting around griping about school one day, when an older colleague said, "some day we will look back on these as the good old days." He was wrong... I've worked in better and worse situations since, but never wanted to return to those days

Similar outcomes does not mean similar meaning for students.

"Qualitative measures." Are these possible?

Reading more slowly does not help comprehension.

"You can't improve it if you can't measure it." I hear this a lot, but I don't think it is true.

Identifying causal relationships is a worthy skill to develop… as long as yours reflect reality.

IT in education cannot depend on users knowing what they need ahead of time. That is the nature of the work.

When environments change, humans can adapt their behaviors relatively quickly. We can, but that doesn’t mean we do.

Those who resist suggestions to change often do so because they conflate it with “you are not good at what you do.”