How Technology Is Making Us Stupid an interview with @daisychristo.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

“Students’ reluctance to perform controversial viewpoints in public settings may reflect a paradigm shift that meaningful engagement with controversial ideas requires privacy and reflection. AI may deliver all this far more fruitfully than the performative classroom discussions that FIRE champions”

*NEW* The day I do nothing is the day I get faster. The minute after you teach is when learning happens. Spacing isn’t a strategy; it’s a timetable. Protect the gap: quiet recap, sleep, early return. Cramming isn't rigour; it’s sabotage.

Is Educational Research Facing Death, Resurrection, or Rebirth? Around 140,000 papers on education are published each year – yet little changes in classrooms. AI promises a rebirth, but mostly magnifies old problems. wp.me/p2nWPo-5dn

@thebandb.bsky.social thoughts on this article? open.substack.com/pub/freddied...

@schewpsych.bsky.social Thoughts on this article? open.substack.com/pub/freddied...

Can persistence and openness reduce inequality in schools? A little bit theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/09/05/c...

From @wired.com is spot on:

I can imagine similar displays of sincerity in Russia and China. How did we get here?

When you have walk-in advising, you don’t notice the loss of faculty mentors. When you have affinity groups, you don’t notice that all of your courses and assignments are beginning to look the same. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/is-embraci...

*NEW* Round-up of research on learning - latest evidence on phone bans, practice testing, belonging, digital reading, absenteeism, AI feedback, and more. ⬇️ carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...

The exact wording of the prompt is not that important, it is the idea that you can use modern web-connected LLMs as solid first-pass fact checkers that is useful. As an author, I can choose to take or leave their advice, but it is helpful to have it.

A really useful prompt for writing: "review this for accuracy, look up any facts you may want to challenge or explore." Even if not perfect, it is a good sanity check on your own work. Works well with Claude 4.1, GPT-5 Thinking, and Grok 4. Weirdly, Gemini 2.5 Pro often won't do web searches.

“The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise” - @daisychristo.bsky.social

I can imagine a world where writing (and basic literacy) are less widespread. But I find it hard to imagine one - either utopian or dystopian - where writing is obsolete. It's too fundamental & useful; too bound up with our human thinking processes. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/education-...

NEW: Why beliefs about free will matter We praise students for making good choices as if every child had equal access to self-control, foresight & calm. But free will isn’t a level playing field. It’s a skill. And schools can either build it, or punish its absence. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

If AI is being used extensively in office jobs, then should we be letting students use AI in the classroom? No - here's why. With reference to 3 papers that show what you do in a job isn't the template for what you do in the classroom. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/education-...

The definition of insanity? “…pivot back towards fossil fuels in a bid to revive its share price.”

“The objective world no doubt exists, but the world we experience is always an active construction, a kind of “controlled hallucination” in which the brain uses sensory signals to update and calibrate its best interpretation of what’s going on.” - @anilseth.bsky.social

“…three things happens when people use a machine to automate a task they would otherwise have done themselves: - Their skill in the activity grows. - Their skill in the activity atrophies. - Their skill in the activity never develops” - Nicholas Carr www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...

What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change “Methane traps about 80 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide over 20 years. And methane emissions, which are driving an estimated 45 percent of human-caused warming, are rising rapidly.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

“All I’m asking is this: those in the media who have the reach and resources to find the qualified skeptics out there should do much more to highlight those voices and make them more prominent in public discourse about AI. “ - Freddie deBoer freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/no-i-mean-...

I completed my third year of writing essays for The Teaching Professor. Each year I post the links to the last year's essays after all become freely accessible. Please feel free to share. June 17, 2024 Addressing Tenacious Misconceptions tinyurl.com/2q8zbx6j

“ #ChatGPT and #Claude have got really quite good at writing. As they improve, will they make human writers, even highly skilled ones, as obsolete as typists?” A conversation between @ianleslie.bsky.social and @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

I wrote this essay for the New Statesman about the collapse of the English Literature degree and the dawn of the post-literate society www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Six ways to deal with your phone One powerful idea Zero demand on willpower #situationmodification www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxVs...

📱 Just seeing your phone—even face down—lowers test scores by draining mental energy. It’s not about willpower—it’s situation modification. That’s why I launched #PhonesInFocus 👉 Teachers: Take the 5-min survey → phonesinfocus.org

“According to one, Kate Conroy, even the "smartest kids insist that ChatGPT is good 'when used correctly,'" but they "can’t answer the question [when asked] 'How does one use it correctly then?'" - @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

“Instead of a story about human-machine substitution, we’re witnessing the emergence of a new form of human-machine collaboration that’s slower, more complex, and ultimately more dependent on human judgment than anyone predicted.” - @samirvarma.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

What Can Higher Education Gain from Artificial Intelligence? www.ppic.org

Memory, learning and forgetting. @ciaragreene.bsky.social www.unsiloedpodcast.com/episodes/cia...

*NEW POST* The first in a series of posts on how to move away from strategies and activities to applying the science of learning in a more effective way. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/bright-lin...

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Who's Cheating?, by @kteare substack.com/@kteare/note...

How you think determines how you learn (but not how you think) theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/04/23/h...

Very good interview with our Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social starts at 16:20🇨🇦

I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...

“To have a brain that is flexible, that tries to resist ideologies, is a brain that’s constantly hard at work—at balancing...being receptive to evidence, thinking about all those identity categories that we often put us in…” @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

“..if we imagine a spectrum from the very extreme left to the very extreme right, we see that the most cognitively flexible people are generally in the center-left and are the least likely to latch onto pre-established group identities.” - @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

These weekly tech( not only) discussions are excellent! @ajkeen.bsky.social and @kteare.bsky.social thank you.

Ah yes, the real world. “…while it sounds very logical in theory, recent research shows that practice can sometimes be stubborn—especially when the research is done in a real classroom environment with real students.” - @thebandb.bsky.social

“Recent history is littered with the wrecks of overconfident forecasts about the future. This dangerous arrogance emerges naturally from academic specialization.” - @stuartwhatley.bsky.social

Reid Hoffman’s p(bloom) | @reidhoffman.bsky.social, LinkedIn co-founder and author of the new book Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future, offers an optimistic view of the coming AI earthquake. @robertwrighter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodL...

On Sam Altman, “He wants to make world-changing technology. He wants to change the world. He wants to fix the world as much as he can. I do feel like his whole life he has been told, and it's true, that he has special gifts.” - @keachhagey.bsky.social

Just say YES to tariff-free smuggling from Canada! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Place yourself back in the student's seat and remember what it's like to be the learner. You'll be a better teacher for it. https://theeffortfuleducator.com/2025/04/02/remembering-what-its-like-to-be-a-student/

📬 Mailbag episode is out! 🎧 The most common emails I get are about Building Thinking Classrooms and number talks. @mrzachg.bsky.social joined me to help answer some listener questions. I hope you find it helpful! open.spotify.com/episode/0Q5y...

Great interview with Richard Mayer by @mrzachg.bsky.social …we need a part 2. #edusky #generativelearning #soi #multimedia