Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Too often teachers simply repeat their original explanation, only slower, in hopes that students will understand things that confuse them. By challenging themselves to understand the questions from their students' perspective, teachers become learners--they are smarter by their openness to interaction from those with less expertise.

If you claim a method works “like magic,” I’m not going to take you seriously. I might look closer at the method, but I’m not interested in your assessment.

I have an uncommon ability to phrase questions in ways leaders cannot avoid them. It annoys them.

Heutagogy. Educators who don’t make space and time for it are missing an opportunity to make school relevant.

One of the problems with being a teacher who is and understands research findings and is competent using them is you cannot use that knowledge when debunked ideas are advocated by school leaders.

I’ve only been asked to participate in a couple of exit interviews, but the few I did seemed so silly.

If folks are leaving your organization and you express surprise, then you are probably not paying attention.

A Technology Decision-Making Case to Consider – https://hackscience.education/ https://hackscience.education/2023/10/09/a-technology-decision-making-case-to-consider/

Aspects of Classrooms Affected by Technology
https://hackscience.education/2018/04/30/aspects-of-classrooms-affected-by-technology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"These data are objective" is a sign they are not.

A single test score does not tell us anything interesting or useful.

Review of Brain and Culture
https://hackscience.education/2018/04/26/review-of-brain-and-culture/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Scientists are always specific about what they are measuring, and there are accepted methods for measuring these quantities. Education is not the same.

Real data-driven folks understand that all measurements contain error.

Before ordering books, one should check their bookshelves.

How I Spent My Summer: Life Teaches a Teacher
https://hackscience.education/2018/04/25/how-i-spent-my-summer-life-teaches-a-teacher/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I work in #edtech. I spend half of my time giving step-by-step directions for using tools and half of my time having those directions be ignored.

“We therefore give the word 'intelligence' to this wondrously complex and multifaceted set of human capabilities. This shorthand symbol is then reified and intelligence achieves a dubious status as a unitary thing”. - Stephen Jay Gould

Adults are trying to improve schools by looking towards their past; “what worked for me will work for them,” is the misguided reasoning.

If education was simply an engineering problem, it would have been solved decades ago