Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

If you do not see the world differently, then you didn't really learn anything.

A crucial insight from the MIT article: the data given "the least space in the paper is the most important"—interviews about essay writers' "sense of ownership." This shifts the focus for educators.

If you can use “deliver” and “teach” interchangeably, you do not understand learning. #teach #teaching #remotelearning #instructionalcoach #highschool #highered #edchat

Is #learning transmitted, discovered, experienced? Your answer tells us much about you as a #teacher.

“Writing” and “replacing words so it sounds good” are different activities.

Test scores are useful for measuring the variation of learning in a large population. For individuals, it can only estimate their value.

Can we stop treating individuals’ scores as precise and meaningful?

Your daily reminder that if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room... and you are probably wrong.

“Make all plans in pencil,” is really sound advice right now.

“If you’re going to mandate it, at least own it.” Is the best leadership advice I have read in a long time.

Yeah... I just ignore business people who complain they can’t hire qualified people in one sentence, then say “ the market won’t allow higher wages” in the next.

Data is fine... in just isn’t that interesting. Explaining data... that’s the interesting (but overlooked) bit.

When a see/ hear an educator with all of the answers, I walk the other way.

Curriculum and content are different.

Sometimes you just don't what to hear the IT support technician's answer to "Why do I have to do it that way?"

"If you are not challenging others' understanding, it isn't worth doing," is the most encouraging comment I heard when completing my dissertation.

“Deep”, “active,” “collaborative” are words that should describe the learning in your classroom.

“denied, delayed, distracted, and derailed” are too often the actions of those in leadership positions

A blog post on preprint research:
http://hackscience.education/2025/07/22/preprint-research/

Cyril Burt's "honest" error—the unwavering belief in intelligence as a reified, innate factor—had a profound and lasting impact throughout the 20th century, affecting millions and appearing in later works like The Bell Curve.

Stephen Jay Gould argues Cyril Burt's "real error" was not just later fraud, but his "reification of intelligence" as a single, measurable, innate entity through factor analysis.