Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I’m old enough to remember when we were advised to avoid Cliff Notes and other summaries. Now they are encouraged to have AI summarize books. Is any of this different from researchers using abstracts to get a sense of the article?

You get to the end of the course you are teaching and students conclude it was a waste of time. How do you respond?

What? Why? And How? – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.net/2023/08/07/what-why-and-how/

Access to information isn’t a problem. Curating it, analyzing it, interpreting it, evaluating it, applying it, creating with it are the tasks that should occupy learners’ time today.

“The data are messy and complicated.” Yeah, it might not be easy to analyze, but that’s where the good stuff is lurking.

The most ethical people update their “rules” as things change.

We do lots of things to structure tasks for learning. If you can’t fade those supports over time, then they failed. #education #teaching

When you record grades to tenths, you demonstrate you don’t understand grading.

Those who rage against the current generation forget what was said about them.

It is strange to me that so much of school is grounded in the assumption that students are incapable of learning unless it is specifically taught and graded.

According to the biography of Albert Einstein, he graduated from one school with a 4.25 in math on a scale that went to 6. I can hear the question in the teacher meeting… “So what was his real grade?”

I admire some people for their ideas… then they ruin it.

I work in educational technology. I have for decades. I still spend most of my time showing folks how to use search tools and how to use ctrl-F.

Whenever the ice breaker calls for me to share I place I visited recently I say, “Roswell, NM” and raise my hands and start humming.

Here is your regular reminder that “standards” were sold to education as “high quality for all,” but it became something much different.

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t someone who takes reason, logic, and empirical evidence seriously. I look at the delusional things that come across my feeds and I envy those who can confidently make such statements without concern for reality.

One thing I miss about job searches is the part of interview after I have decided I don’t want the job.

The fact that teachers in the USA need to share “classroom wish lists” on social media should be our greatest national embarrassment. Unfortunately, we have way more embarrassing situations right now.

We had significant flooding in my region last month. Folks are rebuilding… in the same places. 🤦‍♂️ I understand the many reasons, but government has a responsibility (IMO) to set regulations and support efforts to prevent this repeated loss.

We had significant flooding in my region last month. Folks are rebuilding… in the same places. 🤦‍♂️ I understand the many reasons, but government has a responsibility (IMO) to set regulations to prevent this repeated loss.