Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Attuning your ear to your #students (paraphrasing Confucius) is a lesson most #teachers learn too late in their careers, and those who become administrators (IMHO) rarely learn, and when they do they dismiss it. #education

Open book tests throughout the term, then closed for the final? Yeah... if we want to encourage learning through the entirety of the course.

Desirable difficulties. Some good ideas in education never get our attention.

If your class is structured for short-term memory, why are you bothering? Why should your students?

When adopting new technologies, two complementary questions seem necessary: “Does this meet our need?” *and* “What is possible now that wasn’t previously?”

We too often stop after the first, and miss opportunities for creative and innovative changes.