Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

There is a fine line between being consistent with the organization of your lessons and boring students through "the same thing everyday."

Yeah, if you put your astrological sign in your profile, I’m probably not going to follow you. No, that is incorrect, I’m surely not going to follow you… at least not on purpose.

If you have to send an email asking a question, you have time to google the answer.

OK… let me remind you, “kiddos” is not an appropriate term for students.

Sometimes I hear adults trying to do math, and I get really angry at math educators.

We know how brains work. Stop with the hours-long lectures.

So much of my time in #edtech has been spent building for the third time things folks asked for previously but never used.

If you ask my solution and I provide it, but you reject it… please don’t ask me to clean up the mess. I’m at the age where I will be honest.

Objectivity is often just shared dogma. Yeah, I think Gould was correct.

Surely the Earth and life will recover from humans, but we won’t be here to see it.

Me: I see you have a bi-modal distribution. Have you identified the two “things” that you think account for this?

“Data-driven” leader stares at me and blinks before charging through their slides.

What great natural disasters have become the foundations of our culture? I expect there are many, but we will never know them.

Rejecting science would not be a big deal if lives didn’t depend on it.

If your classroom rules are the most important thing you do on the first day, you are teaching wrong… and this is true no matter the age of your students. OK… maybe an exception if you have potentially lethal stuff (chemicals, machines, etc.) in your teaching space.

Facts do not speak for themselves… we interpret them in light of theory.

If your data can’t be replicated, then the effect is probably random.

Denying reality is qualitatively different from skepticism.

If your belief isn’t based on evidence, then no evidence will change it.

You may have terrific data, but if there is no theory to support its interpretation, then it is really useless and uninteresting.

In general, those who believe they are the most objective in their assessments are the least.