Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
- John Dewey

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Alber Einstein

On the Need for Translators in #edtech
https://hackscience.net/2018/03/09/on-the-need-for-translators-in-edtech/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
- Stephen Jay GOuld

“You did a great job and we’d like you to do it again this year” is leader speak for “I have no idea what you did, but no one complained.”

Can we stop with using natural selection as a model for change in society? It’s a terrible metaphor.

Don’t conflate your prejudices with facts.

If you claim objectivity, you demonstrate you are not.

“If I can’t see it, it’s not real.” Yeah… I’m just going to walk away.

One thing I learned during 35+ years in education: “Grade level” is a vacuous construct.

When IT problems affect school leaders, they get solved. If those problems remain for students and teachers, then it’s time to run.

I work in education and have since 1988. I’m used to leaders freaking out when their data demonstrates they were wrong.

The college president announced no vacations will be approved for mid-August through mid-September next year. Some folks are upset, I’m wondering who was taking vacations then anyways.

Leaders: We would like you to do x.

Teachers: That makes it impossible to do y, which is what you told us to do last month.

Leaders: No, keep doing y, but just do x too.

This, my friends, is how schools work.

If you became a teacher because you like answers, you are missing the point of education.

As a writer, I know my audience… or at least the one individual whom I have in mind who really needs to read my work.

We used to depend on an editor “giving permission” for us to read text by approving publication. Now, anyone can publish. Is it better?

I’m always amazed at the number of educators who are not bothered by advertisements on YouTube video used in classrooms.

Without artificial light, many books would go unread.

RT Prof. Feynman: If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.