Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: PD fails because you can't teach someone something they think they already know.

"I can't even get them to work for grades, how can I do away with them?"

Stop read that again. You admit they are not the motivator you expect, yet you can't try something different.

To be truly intelligent, one must use their brain and the tools, spaces, and people around them.

One thing I learned during 35 years education: students will control something. You can use that in a productive manner or not.

“How you count” changes what your data show.

excuses approaches (I’m missing some) you want, but if your teachers don’t nurture relationships with students it’s all meaningless.

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.