I dropped the S because I thought shareable and memorable were close enough. After I discarded WIN, I moved onto WIT, as in use WIT in your acronyms, but it wasn’t catchy enough so I asked a group of friends and voila! ASK FOR HELP! Ask teachers, ask friends, ask students.If you are still stuck then move to the next step. It needs to be a common word that everyone understands. When I was creating MIT I wanted to use the word WIN but the only word starting with the letter N that means tiny is “nano” and we are NOT going to use the word nano in our acronym. See which letters are missing to create the MIT word and open up the thesaurus and look for synonyms for your keywords that have the initial letter that you need.See if you can make a MIT word out of those, if not go to step 4.Underline, circle, star, or highlight the keywords that don’t repeat.Write down every word you can think of that has to do with the process or topic.I hear them talking about it in the lounge on the time, but here we are handing out students SOAPSTONE and giving out SAMR during PD and doing NOTHING about it.
Teachers are driven crazy by lazy students. If person creating the unusable acronym doesn’t spend any time trying to create a useable acronym that’s memorable then that’s just lazy. Giving them a pile of letters isn’t helping at all. That means we need to help people LEARN and then USE what they learned. I’m going to tell you this thing but it’s up to YOU to learn and remember this thing. It’s the Ivory Tower model of teaching and it’s unacceptable. It’s almost like people don’t care if anyone remembers them, but they still want them to remember them and that’s a big problem in education. I know the LangWitches meant well when they decided to turn KWL into KWHLAQ, but seriously… how am I supposed to remember that? And they aren’t the only ones: Now these are all important topics and I’ll grant you that shortening them up saves some time with typing, but if you are going to use an abbreviation, an acronym, or an initialism in a learning environment it would be great if you could use one that helps people remember what it means. There’s a virtual alphabet soup in the world of education. CRAP is a poor acronym to use in a learning situation, but it’s not alone. While I love Robin Williams, I own several of her books on design, there is no way I’m asking my students to make sure their slides are crappy. You see in the world of slide design there’s just one common acronym to help people with slide design… and it’s CRAP. I sat through an hour long session on slide design the other day just to ask a single question and the answer I got was CRAP.
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