The more a learn about religious folks, the more content I am to have rejected it.

My management style summarized: Me: "This is how we do things." My team: "That sucks, let's try this." Me: "OK. Let's make sure we cover these bases. Get me a cost and timeline." Me & My team: Review their plan. Me to my boss: "This is what we are doing."

If it is easy, you probably are not learning.

If there is one study that confirms your stance, please avoid saying “the research shows.”

One of the most distressing things I learned during my career in education was that leaders pivot to new initiatives very quickly and ignore the fact they are so contrary.

I remember clearly, though it was more than 40 years ago, feeling I really belonged in higher education when I was dropped off at college. I know almost immediately the school wasn’t the right fit, but college was.

What if Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others who “certify” teachers don’t really know anything about learning?

In many cases, I find, folks use “learning styles” when they are really talking about “varying modes of instruction.” In classrooms, we need to vary what we do, which is often contrary to one’s teaching style, and never needs to be explained by learning styles

When I use “project” I’m teaching, I mean something that the students have been involved is defining, bounding, and assessing. Many others mean “something that isn’t a test.”

Learning styles is a debunked idea about perception. Teaching style is typically applied to the preferred method used by an instructor. Teaching style is sometimes grounded in theory, but reflects one’s comfort.

Whenever I read a quote from Richard Feynman, I hear his voice reading it. It is delightful.

I sent my laptop to my son to finish up his masters degree (they always fail at the least opportune times), so I picked up a new one. They really are easier to set up compared to 20 years ago.

I'm no longer a teacher, but I stil; clean my home office whenever classes end.

In my freshman year of high school (ca. 1979) we had a 10-period day, but students only attended 6 or 7. One year, a group of us arrived at 7:30 for small gas engine repair then sat through study hall until our other classes started.

Tutoring and teaching are different. Yes? No?

I often wonder about the science teacher who said to me once, "There just must be something in horoscopes. Right?"

My mentor in qualitative research maintained researchers must transcribe their interviews themselves. My typing skills were sharpened when I followed their advice. I’m not sure it improved my analysis, but how would one know?

Let’s not assume teachers are a homogeneous group. They vary in their beliefs about what constitutes effective education, so it’s hard to get consensus and one can find support for any wacky idea.

For the typologist, the type (edios) is real and variation an illusion, while for the populationist the type (average) is an abstraction and only variation is real. - Ernst Mayer writing about Darwin, a populationist.

I have full admin access to everything in our LMS. There are many things I don’t do although I can. For example, I can fix the link to the exam after the instructor has not responded to emails/ voice mails for more than a month, but I don’t.

Why do we treat test scores as precise measures, when they are at best an estimate of a range?

“I’m a good at multitasking.” Are you? Are you really?

Research and data collection begins with the question you want to answer. “Can they pass this test?” isn’t a worthy question.

“Do your research” and “read my echo chamber” are not the same thing.

What if we focused education around questions that AI can’t answer?

I taught science in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s (before moving to edtech for the next 30 years and counting). I kept the best collection of pirated TV shows from PBS!

Yeah, say what you will about generative AI... it is a pretty good editor.

We all “write it right” the first time, but gremlins come it at night and change it to text that needs significant revision… those gremlins need to stop.

The problem is (at least in my experience), folks bastardize the system, then complain it doesn’t work.

I’m very happy that folks smarter than I am are willing to ask me questions and challenge me.

If your ideas suck, get better ones.

A blog post focusing on cloud computing in schools and the ethics of using them in schools: www.hackscience.education/the-ethics-o...

A blog post differentiating school IT from business IT. Generate by AI from a chapter form a book I published a few years ago: www.hackscience.education/not-your-ave...

Yes, you have freedom of speech, but do do those who are shouting you down.

I’m at that age when my wife (we were in high school together) talk about people, places, and events; and no one knows what we are laughing about.

Yes, I know your position. No, that does not mean I have to agree with your ideas.

I taught for decades. I now have a “real job,” but still in education. I always work through my lunch. Colleagues find this very unusual.

The most rigorous self-proclaimed “data-driven” leaders tend to be troubled the most by the question “how do you know?”

When you start believing your own “data” you are doomed.

“If we do this, that will happen.” Nature often disagrees.

The dysfunction in an organization is proportional to the number of members who “pass the buck.”

You can tell much about leaders by watching their actions at “mission critical” events. In education, watch them interact with students.

If one can only use math to answer questions on a test, does one really know math?

There is nothing that makes a teacher smile more than seeing a former student (who was a pain) dealing with their misbehaving children in public.

Mutation is random. There long-term effects are not. It produces the appearance of design, but appearances can be deceiving.

“It’s human nature” is using followed by an opinion given by someone completely unfamiliar with what we actually know about human nature.

If your organization insists on silos (e.g. this department must fix those problems). But departments are unresponsive, then folks will find workarounds, many of which degrade the systems.

I see lots of commercials for prescription drugs. They say to ask your doctor about it. It’s a six month wait to see a doctor in my area. I couldn’t get those products even if I needed them, yet the commercials continue.

What is the proper reaction when the speaker on DEI has slides with inaccessible text and graphics?

"Objective assessment" is impossible.