Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Seriously. Don’t read your slides when presenting.

Lesson #1 for public speaking: Don’t “complain” you didn’t have time to prepare.

I wanted to give a copy of my book to a former colleague. We were in her office, so she had to find some change in her desk and buy it from me as the publisher’s price exceeded the value of gifts she could accept as a public employee.

Can we finally agree more information doesn’t change minds?

Will generative AI bring back Microsoft Bob?

Curiosity. Without it, we don't learn.

So much “narrative” is really mythology.

“I taught it, but they didn’t learn it.”

Did you? Did you really?

One thing I learned during 30 years as a teacher: when administration investigated itself, no wrongdoing is ever found.

I’m starting to calculate the time I waste seeing advertisements when online and it’s causing me to rethink the time I spend in the virtual world.

Those companies whose stock crashed “because of AI.” Isn’t it disingenuous to label them “education” companies?

Flipping to the back of a Scientific American from a few years ago, I find a warning that “computers constitute a dangerous threat to privacy” in the 50 years ago column.

If you didn’t change, you didn’t learn.

Let’s stop conflating using vocabulary with understanding.

Seriously, stop using kiddos when you mean students.

Yeah… actually, I am familiar with your argument. It has been rejected by reason and data. I’m under no obligation to take it seriously.

t is fun to go to research conferences and watch qualitative researchers feign interest in quantitative studies.

Hey tech people… if you aren’t talking to users, your designs will fail.

ChatGPT can write emails for me!

Yeah, back in my day, we used templates.

When I’m in a research mindset, clear and precise definitions are important; when I’m in an understanding mindset, concepts are much more important.