Very very little is known about the quality of teaching on college campuses. And everyone wants to keep it that way. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/teaching-q...

So happy to have co-authored this piece about IQ and education with my great colleague, the cognitive scientist and education expert Daniel Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social. Our goal is to take intelligence seriously without lapsing into essentialism.

Well worth listening to. Will AI crush higher education? Jimmy Alfonso Licon / The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast @anecdotal.bsky.social & @bryan_caplan substack.com/home/post/p-...

I spoke with @BigThink about why even the most experienced professionals need a coach — including surgeons. It’s one of the most under-utilized ways people improve. Video: youtu.be/tW7ClAexgHI?...

I wrote about my knee injury and recent surgery, Oliver Sacks's "A Leg to Stand On", and how a zombie Calvinism continues to distort the American health care system: open.substack.com/pub/kathrynp...

I had access to Gemini 3. It is a very good, very fast model. It also demonstrates the change from chatbot to agent. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-year...

Math education situation in California seems dire www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade...

Can LLMs be personal tutors? In theory yes; in practice there are some big challenges to overcome. I list four here. In particular we have to get away from the idea that explanations = learning. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/llm-tutors...

Le Québec affiche l’un des meilleurs niveaux de bien-être www.ledevoir.com/economie/932...

Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...

There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?

Delighted to share another summary- a profoundly thought-provoking book. A must-read for those interested in the the bigger picture of transforming learning. Thanks to @P_A_Kirschner for his help with the summary. Download summary and book here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...

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...