Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

What are the red herrings that distract your leaders?

Recognizing progress over achievement is sound, but remember what Alfie Kohn wrote about pizza. #education

Old, bad arguments never die (they don’t fade away either), particularly when they match our hopes. - Stephen Jay Gould.

If it cannot be disproved, it isn’t #science.

Can we haves collective grammatical resolution? No more stray capital letters.

Stasis is the norm for complex systems; change, when provoked at all, is usually rapid and episodic. -Stephen Jay Gould

Yeah, so the Earth may (surely will) survive human hubris... humans, not so much.

My uncle who died from ALS would refuse rides saying, “I want to walk while I still can.” I forget his #wisdom some days.

https://buff.ly/JUbvEo8

A blog post of how we in IT can fix how we fix #edtech problems.
https://buff.ly/69yQV8a

If you must continue to post your meeting norms after a few meetings, then you can be confident either you do not model them, or your participants didn’t believe you.

“Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote.” #science

Can we stop worrying about defining and conducting formative and summative assessments? When #teachers and #students focus attention on ideas and understanding of ideas, it doesn't matter. Evaluations, student performance, outcomes, or whatever you choose to call it will improve.

“We must have have gadflies... to remind us constantly that our usual preferences, channels, and biases are not inevitable modes of thought.” -Stephen Jay Gould

Tolstoy suggested Malthus demonstrated “malicious mediocrity.” That is a wonderfully sharp criticism.

“I don’t have kids, so I shouldn’t pay for schools” is as sound as “my house isn’t on fire, so I should not have to pay for fire fighters.”

Life-long learning is no longer optional.

A blog post for network security students.
https://hackscience.education/2025/03/04/penetration-testing/

How do we support IT use among faculty?
https://hackscience.education/2025/03/06/on-professional-development-models-for-edtech/

T. H. Huxley wrote, “battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”