Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

So many courses are designed to teach students about to subject. That is a waste. If the course does not teach how to use the concepts and skills to understand the world differently, the tuition was wasted.

Hey students... please stop using AI to write you assignments. You are in school to develop you skills as a writer and thinker. You are not here to "pass" assignments.

Have AI write something for you and read it. Closely. Notice how trite it is.

Your answers don’t interest me as a teacher. Your thinking does.

When speak/ write without concern for truth, we are bullshitting.

Maybe it’s time we convince our students and ourselves that outcomes don’t matter in classrooms, learning does.

Many of my students’ responses to a prompt were very similar. I entered it in ChatGPT, and was unsurprised at the results.

If you can’t tell me how you might be wrong, I won’t believe you are right.

In the past when leaders proved they are unethical, I have left the organization. I’m not sure I have that privilege this time.

One thing I learned during my career in education: Data are those numbers that support the conclusions we already drew.

Some tech (e.g. calculators) always give the right answer. AI does not. We need to change how we interact with the answers.

Over my career, I have been a student of leadership. It is not getting better.

In general, the larger the N, the more reliable the measurements, and observations based on small N are viewed with skepticism.

When you start questioning your assumptions, you are starting to learn,

Remembering is fine, its just not that useful by itself.

When framing a problem, we define what we believe its cause to be along with the conditions that will indicate the problem has been solved. This is often more import than our solutions.

"Everyone is bringing beer..." sounds good to me.

An applicant mentioned "learning styles" in an interview. I recommended they move on... I think they mentioned it without thinking,

There are libraries filed with advice about how best to teach, many are contradictory to each other.

If you are a leader who must always issue clarifications to your emails to the organization , maybe its time to get some help on your messaging.