Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Once students meet the standards, then we can...,” is an apocryphal way to start any sentence.

“Complainers hissing in their emails,” is my new favorite characterization.

Real critical thinking begins when we begin to doubt our own assessments of the quality of our information and ideas.

“This schedule is best for our learners,” is perhaps the least accurate statement I ever heard as a teacher.

If we know that novices most need to understand the unifying themes and concepts to organize their emerging expertise, why do we focus on measurable outcomes which cannot reflect the ideas?

I once very had a department of very needy and impatient faculty with whom I nurtured a good relationship for more than a year. Good will on both sides... then the new department head was hired.

When goals become the goal, I resign.

You know the word for books one buys, but never reads? We need a similar word for PDF’s downloaded to our mobile devices.

You know emergent properties? I believe something similar happens with #learning... it is qualitatively different from the sum of your teacher’s learning outcomes and cannot be predicted from them. #teaching #education #highered #highschool

I am so tired of institutional templates failing accessibility checks.