Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Recent observation confirms the most enjoyable parenting happens when your children are 30 years old.

Here is your regular reminder that actions speak louder than words.

I just found out through the grapevine (multiple sources) that a leader who left talked shit (inaccurate shit… I observed the situations he talked about) about my team on his way out. 🤬

If You Are Going to Study…
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/23/if-you-are-going-to-study/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Controlling for *the* variable in many problems means you decide what matters… and you may be wrong.

Marketing plans targeting internal audiences are a sign (to me) of failure, or at least the need to convince ourselves we are successful despite evidence.

“This really works well.”
Sure, but your definition of “well” is misguided at best.

When things are too familiar, humans don’t pay attention. Plan some variety into your lessons, units, courses.

“Science collects isolated bits of reality.” Does it? Does it really?

Yeah, AI helps me do some things, but but the really interesting things are not among them.

Look at what your students create. Would anyone other than you care to look at it? If the answer is "no," then maybe you revise your plans,

Downloading Cognition to Digital Devices
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/22/downloading-cognition-to-digital-devices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Experts make the least accurate predictions.

Did anyone learn anything before grades? Standards? Outcomes? Objectives?

“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

Wisdom
https://hackscience.education/2019/01/21/wisdom-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If you have only one way to explain it can you be an “expert?”

Communication, analysis, problem solving... wouldn't it be cool if all schools helped students demonstrate these skills in multiple ways?

If is often better for leaders to not ask advice, especially in public. When they get good advice, then act in an opposite manner, they end up looking the fool.

"Because you will need it next year" is the worst possible answer.