Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Interesting and relevant problems are the foundation of effective lessons, not learning outcomes.

The Capacity to Learn
https://hackscience.education/2018/01/03/the-capacity-to-learn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Give me a good question over a good learning outcome everyday.

When I was a kid, I remember getting annoyed at commercials that played too often during reruns after school. I react the same way to political ads on the radio 50 years later.

It is an unfortunate reality that many learners are delusional about “what works” for them as learners.

“This makes learning fun and easy.”

Yeah, don’t fall for that.

If students are engaged with what they already know, they probably aren’t learning.

Alternatives to the Standard Model of Education
https://hackscience.education/2018/01/03/alternatives-to-the-standard-model-of-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Transparent Taming of Wicked Problems
https://hackscience.education/2018/01/02/transparent-taming-of-wicked-problems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When interviewing candidates, their answers should begin with “it depends….” If they don’t, you are talking with the wrong applicants or you are asking the wrong questions.

There is nothing worse than a boss who sits in their office and asks for updates. My immediate assumption is that they don’t care enough about what I’m doing to actually engage with me and my clients.

One reason we should admire science is practitioners try really hard to be wrong. They start from the hypothesis that their results are just random.

Reinterpreting Bloom’s Taxonomy
https://hackscience.education/2018/01/02/reinterpreting-blooms-taxonomy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: Doing nothing is sometimes a good strategy.

My short-staffed team is heavily scheduled. Events we support have doubled since the return from COVID. Faculty are the one group on campus who refuse to use our scheduling tool. Those who complain the most are the same one who complain students don’t read the syllabus. 🤦‍♂️

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: No matter how carefully practices are defined by researchers, by the time they reach teachers, they have been transmogrified into something much different.

Conspiracy theories are so tiresome.

“One thing we learned during COVID is that students don’t want remote lectures.”

Yeah… it’s the lectures part, not the remote part.

Wicked Problems
https://hackscience.education/2018/01/01/wicked-problems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When I started at college 40 years ago, I was amazed by syllabi. I still am, but for different reasons.