Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I consider myself “woke,” as it captures to me the realization that others’ perspectives are not the same as mine, and I should believe them when they say their experience is different from mine.

We have AI essay writing tools.
We have AI essay grading tools.

So, it’s seems students and teachers can just stay home.

“What was your grandmother’s name?” Isn’t someone looking to name a child. They are phishing for your password.

Years ago, our superintendent decided teachers were to report on snow days. She deemed to have forgotten that teacher contract are based on number of days worked, so there would be no one to teach when the days were made up in the spring.

Good science breaks your ideas.

We don’t know what the next crisis will be, but we do know there will be accompanied by lots of misinformation.

Yeah, educators just don’t get motivation

How much of your learning was teaching “at scale” (done in large cohorts)? While it was effective for content, that was the least important part of my education.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: “facts” are the least useful thing in the curriculum.

Phil Henry and Nick Grandchamp "Les Paul"
https://youtu.be/_n7NcxUCgC4?si=uXjAz3-dXw5BfYPD
I ran into Nick for the first time in several years today. He really did have a black denim coat in high school!

A blog post for students studying for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam focusing on security;
https://hackscience.education/2025/10/09/aws-security/

Agency. We all want and need it in some part of our lives.

When you recognize contingency and randomness affect all decisions an outcomes you are beginning to be qualified to be a leader.

If you post, “research shows,” but you don’t reference it, I assume you are making it up.

Agency. We all want and need it in some part of our lives.

If you are giving 0 for not handing work in, then you are giving participation grades.

Education is about changing humans. When our students leave our classrooms, we expect they can do things, see things, and think things they could not before the class. If our students leave with their abilities unchanged, then they (and we) have wasted their time and energy.

Don’t be that innovation coach who only recommends things you did before becoming a coach.

The degree to which flexibility characterizes effective classrooms is overlooked in my opinion.

Especially in education, long-standing practices have not necessarily proven better than the others.