I was the “teacher who told stories.” I’m surprised no one ever figured out the ones that were “off-topic” always came half-way through class and I watched the clock carefully during them.
04.08.2025 17:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@garyackermanphd.bsky.social
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I was the “teacher who told stories.” I’m surprised no one ever figured out the ones that were “off-topic” always came half-way through class and I watched the clock carefully during them.
04.08.2025 17:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some posts from 5 years ago, are still worth reading. Case in point:
profhurley.medium.com/rubrics-and-...
I wrote a piece on ideas that have been important to me for decades, so I have a pretty good concept of the rationale and arguments. I was told "you should make sure to tell folks which LLM you used to write it."
04.08.2025 15:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is everything "crucial" or are LLM just practicing hyperbole?
04.08.2025 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Intelligence" depends on context. Unless we specify the situation, we cannot define intelligence or one's ability to act intelligently.
04.08.2025 13:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A post on intelligence and variation and AI and one of my favorite books:
hackscience.education/2025/08/03/i...
Storyboarding is like writing... you get half way through and realized you were wrong... usually because you understand it better now.
03.08.2025 21:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just because you had an original idea that you think is pretty good does not mean others must go along... especially if it has been disproved many times before.
03.08.2025 20:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lists of resources are fine... most faculty are in search of advice on how to use one or two effectively, however.
03.08.2025 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Of course it works both ways... I’ve heard plenty of educators telling IT how to set things up... and that doesn’t end well either.
03.08.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nothing worse than IT people telling educators what IT they need.
03.08.2025 17:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“But students shouldn’t be taking my class on a phone” is like saying “but students shouldn’t walk to campus.”
03.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“When science doesn’t conform to my ideas, I dismiss it,” is this one of the biggest changes in our thinking in the last decades, or is it just me?
03.08.2025 15:07 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hey IT, if you immediately say, “oh, that can’t be done,” your clients/ customers either inside or outside your organization don’t believe you... and with good reason. They have often seen it done elsewhere.
03.08.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“I enjoy it/ find it valuable” is not evidence.
03.08.2025 13:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Look at the things you are trying to accomplish (I know accomplish is a dubious concept but you know what I mean)... if anyone else responsible for any part (a boss, supervisor, hiring committee, advisor, parent, child, co-worker, committee, etc.) then remove it from your list.
03.08.2025 12:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Listening to a YouTube featuring a Stephen Jay Gould lecture on my walk, I appreciate the support of advertisers, but when your company interrupts the content every 2-3 minutes, I’m unlikely to become a customer.
02.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, so when you are dealing with natural systems (viruses, brains, atmospheres) it is best to follow science.
02.08.2025 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A multi-literate brain? Hmmm... that’s an interesting concept to ponder.
02.08.2025 19:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Learned ignorance? No, I think "practiced" is the appropriate adjective.
02.08.2025 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The power of some needs the folly of others.” Can’t argue with that.
02.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One reason I don’t make recordings of presentation available is it takes so long to try to figure out how to closed caption the natural speech. It quicker to record an abbreviated version and closed captioning that.
02.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Billionaires with bags of money they are willing to hand out to schools convince “educators” to try their quacky idea about schools & teaching, then they interpret *anything* that can be displayed on misleading graphs as “data that its working.”
02.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stephen Jay Gould asked, “What if variation was reality, and species cannot be reduced to its essence?” Yeah, he was spot-on.
02.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the mistakes educators make is believing the conclusion that what we try to do can be reduced to a number. The value (economic, political, cultural) of an individual or population lies in its variation. We should cultivate that more than seeking standardized students.
02.08.2025 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Defining problems and defining solutions are not the same. Effective systems and leaders focus on framing and understanding problems not limiting them to available solutions. #leadership
02.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Regression to the mean does not make an interesting story, so we discount it, but it explains much.
01.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s been distressing to see how little #education is about #learning.
01.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Mutually focused attention” seems the basis of all #teaching and #learning.
01.08.2025 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If your answer to “why do we need this?” is “because you will need it next year,” you need to stop. Learning is about building connections. Build them with students every chance you get.
01.08.2025 17:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0