Carl Hendrick On The PISA Results: A “Reading Recession”
“There was one finding however that I found particularly interesting and it’s a measure called the ‘hasty reader’ which describes students who make more than one error on the opening reading fluency task and then complete it faster than 99 per cent of accurate readers in the same country and language group. I think this […]
“AI Is Bad For Novice Learning, A Gift For Expert Learning”
“If AI was hollowing out the learning of students, why was it so powerful for me? I resolved this eventually by realising that the two ideas were not opposed at all. They were the same idea seen from opposite ends of expertise. What gave me real clarity however (and to be frank, a kind of […]
How Do We Leverage The Differences Between The Brain and AI?
“The right question for me is not how we make the AI more like the brain. It is what this new system, with its own quite different trade-offs, can do that the human brain cannot, and how we marry the two. Working memory bottlenecks are an evolved compromise, not a target to engineer towards. The […]
On Novels As Empathy And Self-Understanding Machines
An Excellent, Deep Look At Video Tools In Education
“The instructor-presence literature was built on the premise that the instructor is a human being whose social, emotional and pedagogical signals carry information. AI-generated instructors decouple presence from instructorhood: the face is real to the viewer but not real in any other sense. None of the canonical instructor-presence findings have been re-tested under this condition. […]
How’s The Social Media Ban In Australia Going?
On Getting Things Right — And Learning From Productive Failure
Reading Comprehension Is About Vocabulary
On Teaching The Parts And Teaching The Whole
“Natural” Learning Vs Structured Learning
“Natural environments share several features that make them hostile to efficient learning. They offer no sequencing; the world does not present itself in order of difficulty. They provide inconsistent feedback; sometimes immediately, sometimes never, sometimes misleadingly… The truth is that schools exist precisely because natural learning is inadequate and profoundly inequitable. We created artificial environments […]