Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I’m at the age at which I most value even-keeled colleagues and supervisors. Let’s improve where we are and what we do everyday. Let’s put bad days into a larger context and not bully ourselves over situations over which we likely had no control.

Is everyone safe?
Are all actions legal?
Is everyone getting paid?

If the answer is “yes” to all. Then it’s a minor technology problem.

I worked with manufacturing faculty for several years during which I came to understand how they conceptualize and achieve quality.

Educators: Please do not use their language or emulate their practices.

What they are doing is much different that what you are doing. #edchat

Great data. How do you know it’s valid?

Let’s all start asking “data-driven” folks this question.

Why are you using that technology and not another?

Humanizing learning.

What does is say about us that we have to talk about that?

Creating a word cloud in your session is fine, but after 90 seconds of input, its time to move on.

Testing a hypothesis—which is necessary if you are to argue “the data tell us we should”—required statistics… pie graphs or bar graphs just won’t do.

I’m always interested in the (relatively) small literature studying how humans teach and learn in settings not school.

One thing I learned during 30 years as a teacher: those teachers who do the least to connect their courses to the real world complain the most about apathetic students.
#teachers #education #edchat

I just noticed “correlated” (one of those words I can never seem to spell is “co” and “related”, but with an extra “r.” Now, if I can only remember that.

How do your students perceive the test?

Is it a gateway to a new experience?

Is it the signal they are done?

It matters.

I’m not afraid in the dark outside, but I do pay close attention for skunks.

I’m not afraid in the dark outside, but I do pay close attention for skunks.

Cherry picking data is the finely tuned practice of accepting the data which support you decisions and ignoring all others.

Seriously... if you want to regain your writing skills, read excellent writers. Stephen Jay Gould always works for me.

Teachers who conflate “scoring well on assessments” and “learning” are starting to annoy me.

If you only deal with “data and facts,” ignoring interpretation and theory, then you aren’t building any evidence.

The real scientific method begins with, “I don’t know,” and ends in much the same way.

What if you are an educator, who did your job and taught an incomplete, inaccurate, inappropriate curriculum? I used to think that could be excused... now... not so much.