Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Your data may be sound, but your interpretation may not.

More than any other single invention, writing has transformed human consciousness. -Walter Ong

Most any teaching strategy can be effective for some purposes... it’s when we believe one strategy is effective for all purposes that we fail. #edchat #teaching #students #highschool

Knowing how to get very precise answers to calculations doesn’t mean you should... the meaning of the answer may get lost in the unnecessary precision.

So, if you report grades to 2 decimal points... e.g. 87.34, then you are saying your tests/ quizzes etc. are sufficient for you to discriminate 10,000 levels of performance.

Really?

I’m annoyed, but silent, when you misuse apostrophes.

Any term that starts with “rational” that seeks the describe humans (consumers, voters, etc.) are all fallacious.

Yes, I do judge you by the company you keep. No, I will not apologize. It captures your judgement better than most anything else you do and way better than what you say.

Learning objectives help improve performance on tests... the problem is that performance on tests does not correlate with long term learning.

If all of you curriculum can be reduced to objectively correct answers, then you aren’t really contributing to your students’ education.

If your rationale is “accountability,” I don’t want to hear it.

If you are fighting against replacing your school’s racist mascot, I’m going to assume you are racist. Yes, I am judging you... for your actions.

If you are voting via Zoom, tell folks how to abstain.

To what end? is an important question. Sometimes the answer is “because it is the right thing to do.”

Interesting how those who admit they lack expertise speak with most authority.

Much that is done in the name of pedagogy is really just exercise of control.

Facts are facts, but interpretations and perceptions of them—even those that are mutually contradictions—are as factual as the facts themselves.

Framing problems and solutions is the most important and most ignored part of the process.