My provincial government is banning prayer in public. Nobody wants this. It doesn’t matter that we don’t want it. Canadians don’t have rights. Fight! Not withstanding clause has to go. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Despite LLMs not really being intelligent, tech companies push them into education. Can a system that does not think teach? Only if you think teaching = speaking. Read the piece & listen to the podcast with @reckless.bsky.social & educators www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Great piece @reckless.bsky.social “the most obvious outcome is nothing more than a common-sense repository. . .AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But . . . It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data . . . a dead-metaphor machine.”

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

🎮 New on Channel 3 (ABC KEYT) this Wednesday at 6pm PST: A new UCSB study finds that video game addiction in teens often stems from underlying mental health issues — not the games themselves. #gamingdisorder #mentalheath #videogames

Resharing our great paper on how teachers support game-based learning. Teachers are 🔑

🤖 🧠 How are students using AI to get ahead in school? You'd be surprised by what the research shows! Professor Adam Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social was interviewed on an episode of the Decoder podcast called "How AI is Fueling an Existential Crisis in Education": mcgill.ca/x/iCL #AIinEducation

Hehe. Fun. But, does it replicate when Batman enters the lab?

Dear Journal editors, read the £@€¥ reviews! Student MS rejected after 2 very positive evals: work was a fit, methodology and theoretically strong. Only suggested minor editing: remove repeated definitions, move structural validity evidence from appendix to ms. Rejected. WTF?

Hey everyone, OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT for Teachers" today. Do they remain committed to promoting a pedagogical vision that is at odds with our best understanding of how kids learn? But of course! ("Learning styles" is not a thing, I promise you)

Go riders. Grey Cup Champs 2025!!

Grey Cup!! Go Riders!!!

Hello #tRNS lovers: 🧠 Ó Dúinín, E., Steopan J., Kessler, K., Santos, FH. Sci Rep 15, 37977 (2025) 🎯 rdcu.be/eNuQT @mcls-official.bsky.social @mclstrainee.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social #neuroskyence #cogsci #edusky #devpsy Sponsored by @ucddublin.bsky.social Ad Astra

Congrats to Dr. Robin Sharma! He defended his dissertation on “Designing and Testing the Effectiveness of Digital Games to Develop Adolescents’ Understanding of Mathematics." His work with UNESCO, Ubisoft, and Vretta leads the way in game-based learning!! tlclab.owlstown.net/posts/4776-d...

What happens when you interview 700 teenagers about how they actually navigate their online and offline worlds? You learn so, so much about the reality of their lived experiences. This report is riveting from start to finish, and whether you live in England or not. demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...

As an avid gamer, I don’t like the outcome of games leading to socioemotional problems for kids As a researcher, we have to go where the evidence takes us. Will have to dig into this more. @jeffcannata.bsky.social

100 postdoc positions! Hope @mcgill.ca has a similar announcement soon! apple.news/AUTpJ5ZQ_Sca...

Our new meta-analysis by Sabrina Shajeen Alam, Jie Gao, reviews 24 studies on digital math tools for K–12 students with math learning disabilities. Results show where digital tools help—and where big evidence gaps remain. tlclab.owlstown.net/posts/4749-n...

This is what every AI company wants to be, the largest source of cheep labour in the world, basically tax free. That is what these insane stock valuations are about.

I was impressed w/the thoughtful design of this meta-analysis of teacher professional development intervention effects on student achievement. Overall effect was pretty small (Hedges g = .09); the moderators suggest the effect was present only in optimal conditions. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Deadline is approaching!

For a great piece on the reality of AI and cheating see @vicariouslee.bsky.social piece in apple.news/AMNxNjwqJSxS...

A great new program from an excellent human and one of my most distinguished colleagues at McGill. High-end resources for parents concerning bullying. Take a look. #Schoolpsychology #cyberbullying #mentalhealth

Glad to see this! Will help recruit the best and brightest to Canada!

The 10% of students using GenAI to cheat is less worrisome to me than the ~80% trusting GenAI to explain ideas youtube.com/shorts/iPNCh...

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing. ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

@reckless.bsky.social Language is not intelligence

How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education https://thever.ge/Q8fJ #Podcasts #Decoder #Tech #AI

I know I have a rep as a hater but it was really heartening to hear the things other educators that got quoted had to say here, as well as the very practical things @edtechprof.bsky.social had to say. I wasn't expecting to be the closing voice here, though, haha. www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...

I would very much like to thank the roughly two dozen educators and experts who answered my call when I started in on the research for this episode. It took longer than I meant to make it, but we got there. ❤️ www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...

Worth a listen: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education ft. @reckless.bsky.social talking with Prof Adam Dubé at McGill University - podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...

Thanks to @reckless.bsky.social for having me as a guest on Decoder! We spoke about GenAI in education, how digital natives don’t exist, children must be taught how to learn well with technology, and how students’ theory of artificial minds impacts how they use GenAI youtu.be/JCLRz-tRZy0?...

Want a fun video to share with a class to discuss how learning happens, what helps, and how to test ideas about learning. For your consideration. I’m going to ask my learning theory class to explain this video, at the start and end of term, and see how their ideas evolve. youtu.be/nNMrqluzadU?...

The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏

Executive Director Kris Perry shares research-based insights about #AI and K-12 cognitive development, plus why student voices are important when guiding classroom decisions. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JIO6ul #EdTech #ChildDevelopment

Maths Anxiety Day!☘️ #ArithmosProject funded by @researchireland.ie, led by @ucddublin.bsky.social & Technological University Dublin #cogsci #neuro #MathEd #EdTech #dyscalculia @ioe.bsky.social @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social @mclstrainee.bsky.social @mcls-official.bsky.social youtu.be/miW8S9VXTow

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Rate my AI teacher? Students’ perceptions of chatbots will influence how they learn with AI

Students’ naive theories of how GenAI ‘thinks’ affects how they evaluate information from and form para-social relationships with GenAI. New piece by Nandini Bharadwaj and I, check it out. theconversation.com/rate-my-ai-t...

LLMs should not be used as tutors in classrooms. Error rates are too high (e.g., 45% errors for news content) and get worse the longer a student interacts with them. We need to talk about LLMs for what they are, flawed products ill-suited to education.

Student told me today how TurnitIn will allow you to pay a fee to see the AI score it would give to your paper. Straight up mob behavior. Setting fires to your stuff and then telling you for a small fee it's willing to make sure no more fires happen.

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

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Great interview experience with CBC. www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

This LLM is granted access to students’ LMS, GPS, AND health data. It will not analyze this data and make criteria-based recommendations. It compares the data to its training set, then generates ones similar to those in the training set. No evidence-based, transparent, scrutable criteria

The academic benefits of cellphone bans in schools are more modest than proponents had hoped for, but they do seem to be helping students. "A lot of discipline" in the first year as students adjust to the new rules. (1/2) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Excited to share that our team — Nikki Lobczowski, Jason Harley, & I — received CFI JELF funding ($930k) to build research infrastructure at McGill for testing how technology actually affects learning, emotion, & collaboration.