Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

A blog post with audio:
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In the real world, you succeed only when your team does.

You don't improve your multitasking with practice, but your brain craves it more.

Secrecy is relic of norm referenced testing.

People can be inspired to meet stretch goals and tackle impossible challenges only if they care about the outcome.

Imagine if your #students left your #classroom full of #curiosity and the capacity to act on it. #teacheredchat #teachers

Human thinking is individual improvisation in a sociocultural matrix. - Michael Tomasello

Primate brains vary according to social complexity, not environmental complexity.

Learning is not a spectator sport.

The more questions you ask—questions with difficult and complete answers—the more seriously I take you.

So many “best practices” are social conformity and don’t stand up to critical analysis.

Bias isn’t the existence of preferences, it is the unwillingness to abandon them.

Your claims should lead to reasonable predictions.
If you don’t observe what was predicted, you were likely wrong.

When authority is granted more credibility than observation, we all suffer.

If your students do well on tests, but are bored and not curious, have you accomplished anything?

Popular and high-quality are not the same... especially when evaluating information.

“Humans adjust new information to fit what they already know,” but what they “know” is largely based on bias.

Defining and framing the problem must be done by a diverse team, otherwise the solution solves only one small problem and likely causes many others.

“The ectoplasm of sampling error and other artifacts” is my new favorite term.

The cure for the misuse of science is not censorship, but clearer explanations, vigorous debates, and making science accessible to everyone. -Carl Sagan