Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

It’s interesting how compliance is often conflated with learning.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Share your evidence or stop making the claims

OK… can we at least agree that personal incredulity is not evidence?

Embodied cognition. Situated cognition. Distributed cognition.

These are all as real as what happens in your brain.

“The problem with irony is not everyone gets it.”

So true.

The best teachers define and prepare lessons that engage students, and instruct when appropriate. If you need always be instructing, you do not understand learning.

Scientists will actually tell you what they don’t know.

Just to be clear…

In science, to be a theory, it must be well established by fact.

In vernacular, any crackpot idea can be labeled a theory.

Student to IT:
"The instructor's directions don't work, I've tried and tried."

IT logs on to the course, looks at the instructions... the instruction and screen shots in their course were dated 2012.

Responding to accurate observations with incredulity tells me all I need to know about your leadership.

When I was a high school student in the early 1980’s I had no interest in computers. As an undergraduate student, I realized they were useful to me. That perspective has served me well all these decades.

You know how you can tell you are dealing with a scientist? They avoid sweeping generalizations and wide applications of their discoveries.

Anyone with “the way” to teach is wrong.

So many decisions are based on delusional thinking.

Logical inconsistencies. I can see them, and they make me question your judgement on everything.

#science does that to you.

Politicians who control curriculum. That is the worst possible group to make such decisions

What does it say about me that I feel a weird sense of pride when I send text messages to my favorite morning radio show and they read them on the air?

I am a skeptic, but I am convinced by evidence.

I am open-minded, but I am not gullible.

That’s what #science does for you.

Hey teachers, if you are going to share students’ work with others, get their permission. I don’t care the rationale or the justification. If you don’t you are showing gross disrespect for them as humans and creators.

Students must sit and listen to learn.

This is the biggest fallacy in education.