Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

My teachers were experts at dispensing to me the knowledge and skill needed to succeed when information was available in print (a limited medium). I'm convinced teaching has a fundamentally different purpose, but I don't think the practices have changed.

The worst part of using AI to help with your work is that it loses your voice.

The best way to evaluate research or writing (or any other cognitive activity) is by reflecting on questions you have when you leave the work. The works that leave the most interesting questions are the most valuable.

Social media had so much promise, but I've concluded it has failed to live up to it.

While access to IT devices has increased, access to excellent technology-rich curriculum and to the educational benefits of good and well-used technologies is not as widespread as devices are.

Educators are quick to adopt the “precautionary principle;” thus they reason, “Until we are sure this new technology is best, we will continue with what we have been doing.”

New technologies are sometimes adopted first by marginalized populations or for unsavory purposes.

Interesting questions do much more for teaching than clearly articulated learning outcomes.

Giving student experience participating in creating knowledge, evaluating the knowledge created by others, and finding new uses of IT and new types of knowledge, are all aspects of the information technology-rich landscape that we cannot accomplish if our schools are still structured for print.

Hey students... I suggest you avoid plagiarizing from your instructor's blog.

Especially in this century, education has become the focus of much political attention. Government agencies, politicians, and philanthropists are all much more influential in determining educational policy and practice than they were in previous generations.

What is with the new trend of having current data on the left of bar graphs and older data to the right?

I'm old enought to remember when the things we must do to be effective educators were not a thing.

"You do it too" isn't an argument .

The first generation of "digital natives" are adults, some of whom are educators. The predictions that they'd become skilled users of IT were wrong.

If we paid more attention to interpreting our data that to "using" it, we'd make better decisions.

I'm looking back at a career's worth of initiatives. Sometimes the money comes before the commitment; sometime the commitment comes before the money. Success requires these coincide, but that is a rare feat for leaders.

In organizations, members experience initiative fatigue; there are so many things, they lose interest in all of them. Leaders experience it too; there support for each slowly erodes.

I've managed IT for decades, I know when they are BS'ing, but they do it ayways.

If you don't include it in the budget, it can't be important.