Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Scientists see the world in detail, and it causes the restlessness of curiosity.

I am willing to go back to teaching, but I’ve a long list of conditions to which no school would agree.

In my last teaching gig, my team and I had regularly scheduled sessions with the instructional coaches. The session on learning styles was… interesting.

I am willing to go back to teaching, but I’ve a long list of conditions to which no school would agree.

If the data can be displayed on a dashboard, it’s probably of limited use in decision making.

If it isn’t alliterate, there’s no chance it will catch on in schools. A catchy acronym helps, but the alliteration is essential.

One thing I learned during 30 years in the classroom: often times it is the student who acts more like an adult than the adult during interactions.

Leaders should shut up once their actions have spoken. They only make it worse.

“I don’t update my course because my field hasn’t change.”

Yeah, it has, you just are not paying attention... math teachers excepted.

The study with “surprising new findings” makes the news. The studies that demonstrate it was wrong do not.

Hey folks… please don’t say “god bless you for helping me” in work settings.

I used to work with middle school students to create portfolios of things that were meaningful to them as learners (e.g. “this is how I know I’m becoming a communicator”). Other teachers didn’t see the value because students never included assignments they had done for class. 🤔

If you leave the meeting with nothing on your to do list when others do, you are part of the problem.

IMO: The assumption that your current practices are optimal is the one that holds back the most progress.

Those who say "education will change because of this new thing" do not know how resistant to change eduction is.

Every moment students are being tested is another moment they are not learning… unless, of course, it’s well-designed retrieval practice… which it never is.

One of the main reasons given for not abandoning bad practices in schools is “what else should we do?” 🤦

A blog post on social and technology-rich teaching
https://www.hackscience.education/on-social-and-technology-rich-education/

Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man critiques early definitions of intelligence, arguing that those initial ideas, now known to be false, continue to have disastrous influences on society.

A Story About Technology Leaders in School
https://www.hackscience.education/a-story-about-technology-leaders-in-school/