Dr. Adam K. Dubé
@edtechprof.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Associate Professor Learning Sciences; Faculty of Education; McGill University (he/him). Educational tech/games + math cog
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How ChatGPT is fueling an existential crisis in education | Decoder
YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel
youtu.be
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?...
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?...
Tonight’s Xmas movie, Gremlins.
On rewatch: the mom straight up mercs three gremlins, unprovoked.
Sees ‘em-blenderizes, knifes, and microwaves ‘em
Rest of the movie is really a revenge story, gremlins strike back.
On rewatch: the mom straight up mercs three gremlins, unprovoked.
Sees ‘em-blenderizes, knifes, and microwaves ‘em
Rest of the movie is really a revenge story, gremlins strike back.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Tonight’s Xmas movie, Gremlins.
On rewatch: the mom straight up mercs three gremlins, unprovoked.
Sees ‘em-blenderizes, knifes, and microwaves ‘em
Rest of the movie is really a revenge story, gremlins strike back.
On rewatch: the mom straight up mercs three gremlins, unprovoked.
Sees ‘em-blenderizes, knifes, and microwaves ‘em
Rest of the movie is really a revenge story, gremlins strike back.
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
How many times must we keep saying this?
Correlation does not imply cognition
www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...
Correlation does not imply cognition
www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
How many times must we keep saying this?
Correlation does not imply cognition
www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...
Correlation does not imply cognition
www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...
🧵 Postdoc opportunity at McGill
I am recruiting a top postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at McGill through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards Initiative. This is a rare, well-funded opportunity to build an ambitious, multimodal EdTech research program in Canada.
I am recruiting a top postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at McGill through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards Initiative. This is a rare, well-funded opportunity to build an ambitious, multimodal EdTech research program in Canada.
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🧵 Postdoc opportunity at McGill
I am recruiting a top postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at McGill through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards Initiative. This is a rare, well-funded opportunity to build an ambitious, multimodal EdTech research program in Canada.
I am recruiting a top postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at McGill through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards Initiative. This is a rare, well-funded opportunity to build an ambitious, multimodal EdTech research program in Canada.
Marking is done for the term! Can now go on holiday break!
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Marking is done for the term! Can now go on holiday break!
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
McGill is recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad through the federally funded Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program, addressing global and national challenges. The first round is due in early 2026.
Learn more and submit your candidacy: https://mcgill.ca/x/5Zh
Learn more and submit your candidacy: https://mcgill.ca/x/5Zh
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
McGill is recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad through the federally funded Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program, addressing global and national challenges. The first round is due in early 2026.
Learn more and submit your candidacy: https://mcgill.ca/x/5Zh
Learn more and submit your candidacy: https://mcgill.ca/x/5Zh
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📣 CFP: Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines
How does AI affect K-12 math learning/teaching?
We want chapters linking psych ↔️ education—cognition, pedagogy, equity, neuro, games, tutors+.
EOI due Jan 15, 2026
See the full call here: bit.ly/3V5Rwtl
#AIinEducation #MathEd
📣 CFP: Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines
How does AI affect K-12 math learning/teaching?
We want chapters linking psych ↔️ education—cognition, pedagogy, equity, neuro, games, tutors+.
EOI due Jan 15, 2026
See the full call here: bit.ly/3V5Rwtl
#AIinEducation #MathEd
TLC Lab - Call For Chapter Proposals
PDF file Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines: Mathematical Learning and Cognition in the GenAI Age Editors: Adam Dubé (McGill), Katherine M. Robinson (Regi...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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📣 CFP: Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines
How does AI affect K-12 math learning/teaching?
We want chapters linking psych ↔️ education—cognition, pedagogy, equity, neuro, games, tutors+.
EOI due Jan 15, 2026
See the full call here: bit.ly/3V5Rwtl
#AIinEducation #MathEd
📣 CFP: Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines
How does AI affect K-12 math learning/teaching?
We want chapters linking psych ↔️ education—cognition, pedagogy, equity, neuro, games, tutors+.
EOI due Jan 15, 2026
See the full call here: bit.ly/3V5Rwtl
#AIinEducation #MathEd
Yet, LLMs will be deployed into schools as tutors. . . . Same tech, same problems.
New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yet, LLMs will be deployed into schools as tutors. . . . Same tech, same problems.
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
Tonight we recognised great Canadian teachers who are empowering the next generation with the skills, mentorship, and experiences they need to succeed.
To the recipients of this year’s Prime Minister’s Teaching Awards: thank you for everything you do.
To the recipients of this year’s Prime Minister’s Teaching Awards: thank you for everything you do.
December 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Tonight we recognised great Canadian teachers who are empowering the next generation with the skills, mentorship, and experiences they need to succeed.
To the recipients of this year’s Prime Minister’s Teaching Awards: thank you for everything you do.
To the recipients of this year’s Prime Minister’s Teaching Awards: thank you for everything you do.
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
I found this interview with a tech expert and investor very helpful. It rebuts the idea some AI in schools boosters push that genAI is just going to keep getting better.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I found this interview with a tech expert and investor very helpful. It rebuts the idea some AI in schools boosters push that genAI is just going to keep getting better.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
Are you creating an EdTech class?
Each week, pair
1) learning sciences reading on a technology
with
2) episode of the Education, Technology, Society podcast @neilselwyn.bsky.social
Have students debate the promise vs practical realities of the tech.
Best class I ever taught.
My list
Each week, pair
1) learning sciences reading on a technology
with
2) episode of the Education, Technology, Society podcast @neilselwyn.bsky.social
Have students debate the promise vs practical realities of the tech.
Best class I ever taught.
My list
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Are you creating an EdTech class?
Each week, pair
1) learning sciences reading on a technology
with
2) episode of the Education, Technology, Society podcast @neilselwyn.bsky.social
Have students debate the promise vs practical realities of the tech.
Best class I ever taught.
My list
Each week, pair
1) learning sciences reading on a technology
with
2) episode of the Education, Technology, Society podcast @neilselwyn.bsky.social
Have students debate the promise vs practical realities of the tech.
Best class I ever taught.
My list
DuoLingo fired their learning scientist and curriculum experts and tried replacing them with AI. ☹️
Stock is down.
I don’t think downturn resulted from this move, probably people shifting $$ to other AI infrastructure companies.
Live by AI, die by AI.
Stock is down.
I don’t think downturn resulted from this move, probably people shifting $$ to other AI infrastructure companies.
Live by AI, die by AI.
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
DuoLingo fired their learning scientist and curriculum experts and tried replacing them with AI. ☹️
Stock is down.
I don’t think downturn resulted from this move, probably people shifting $$ to other AI infrastructure companies.
Live by AI, die by AI.
Stock is down.
I don’t think downturn resulted from this move, probably people shifting $$ to other AI infrastructure companies.
Live by AI, die by AI.
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/...
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/...
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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/...
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...
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...
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
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...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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.”
“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...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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.”
“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.”
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
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...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
🎮 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
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
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
🎮 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
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 🔑
Teachers are 🔑
🚨New article🚨 in Computers & Education
We created and validated a measure of how teachers scaffold game-based learning.
Turns out, teachers are great at cheering students on and keeping them on task—but need more support/resources to guide deeper thinking during games.
Full study link below.
We created and validated a measure of how teachers scaffold game-based learning.
Turns out, teachers are great at cheering students on and keeping them on task—but need more support/resources to guide deeper thinking during games.
Full study link below.
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Resharing our great paper on how teachers support game-based learning.
Teachers are 🔑
Teachers are 🔑
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
🤖 🧠 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
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🤖 🧠 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?
The Batman effect: A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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?
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?
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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?
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?
Reposted by Dr. Adam K. Dubé
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)
("Learning styles" is not a thing, I promise you)
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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)
("Learning styles" is not a thing, I promise you)
Go riders. Grey Cup Champs 2025!!
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November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Go riders. Grey Cup Champs 2025!!
Grey Cup!! Go Riders!!!
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November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Grey Cup!! Go Riders!!!