Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@social.cleverlibre.org

I think I’m going to start working on creating Maxwell’s Demon. That should bring in enough money that I can retire.

“I am endlessly bothered by preventable problems” is my new mantra.

Real-time problem-solving (e.g. with time constraints and changing circumstances) should be designed into learning settings too.

Learning procedures is great for improving performance... until those procedures fail.

Knowing how it is supposed to work and knowing how it fails are very different forms of knowledge, and one may not lead to the other.

Troubleshooting is a very important problem solving skill that is too often ignored in education.

Amazon just recommended a Disney animation book for me... the algorithm is fishing.

If students don't see your concepts as better than theirs, they won't integrate them into their thinking.

If everything that matters can be measured, then why is it that highly measured performers (think professional athletes being drafted) are so often “busts?” #data #education

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The most flawed educational proposals proceed from the position that education is an engineering problem, and thus we can build educational systems that produce measurable achievement reliably.

I am increasingly intolerant of those who continue to improve schools through old tired ideas that or those that ignore what we know about teaching and learning.

When an educational leader argues that we should follow the philanthropists because “they are paying for it,” that leader loses credibility immediately and permanently.

Have you ever noticed schools often have multiple initiatives that are contrary to each other, but the leaders are oblivious to that fact? I have.

I am cynical about much that is presented as education, especially by outsiders.

If we did not hire narcissists, work would be more pleasant, but there would be lots of vacancies in leadership positions.

Bullying begins in settings where there is “the” way to do “things.”

Two questions:

Who won the Nobel prize in medicine for the last 10 years and what discoveries led to the award?

Are people in your community affected by the discoveries made by Nobel winners?

School values one, but not the other.

If we don't agree it is a problem, we surely will not all agree on the solution.

What if we designed school around problems that did not have clear solutions.