Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

You are leaving? OK. Bye. Good luck. By the way, we are better off without you.

A blog post on technology transfer, now with audio:
https://hackscience.education/2018/07/12/technology-transfer/

Answering questions is easy. Asking the right ones, not so much.

Because “it worked” is not evidence you were right. You may have been lucky.

If you listen to musicians, then complain about their political views, then you probably aren’t hearing their music.

How does one politely say, “That sentence you just said (or wrote) is so full of jargon that I have no idea what it means?”

I’ve never understood #education’s fascination with #data. You know it is relationships with #students that matter most right?

I forgot just how much reading one can get done while Windows updates.

So many #educators who “adopt” innovative methods keeping doing what they’ve always done, but use different language.

Your intuition often tricks you.

Is that trend random? How do you know?

Just because there is a number attached doesn’t mean it is true or even measurable or worth measuring. #DataScience #data #leadership

“We ran into a problem we should have know about...” is not a good thing to put in email. Just saying.

Hey IT. I know we all do it, but, please do not admit to clients (either internal or external) that you “Googled” the errors and how to fix them. #CustomerService #IT

"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so." -Mark Twain

Let's be clear. Your opinion is not my evidence.

“Statistics are not facts. They are interpretations.” Can't argue with that.

So many widely-held beliefs are fabrications.

If someone claims to be an “innovator,” but then describes how they have implemented similar solutions in different places, they are probably not.

“I want my students to be like me,” is an indication you misunderstand being a #teacher #education #highschool #highered