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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...
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...
Can LLMs be personal tutors?
Four big challenges
substack.nomoremarking.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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...
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...
Le Québec affiche l’un des meilleurs niveaux de bien-être
Le contraste est particulièrement marqué lorsqu’on compare la province aux États-Unis.
www.ledevoir.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Le Québec affiche l’un des meilleurs niveaux de bien-être www.ledevoir.com/economie/932...
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Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...
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There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?
Last Mile Education
The Syllabus Doesn't Matter
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?
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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-...
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-...
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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-...
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...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
New Podcast: Daisy Christodoulou on How Technology Is Making Us Stupid
Podcast Episode · The Ruffian · 2025-09-18 · 48m
podcasts.apple.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
How Technology Is Making Us Stupid an interview with @daisychristo.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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”
Why on earth should most students go hear "speakers" these days when controversial ideas can be discussed safely from the privacy of the dorm room, with their AI chatbot. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
About FIRE’s Free Speech Rankings (opinion)
The methodology for measuring campus free speech ignores the changing ways students are engaging with controversial ideas—privately, and with the aid of AI, Hollis Robbins writes.
www.insidehighered.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
“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”
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*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.
Harnessing the spacing effect to creating more efficient gaps
Why quiet intervals, sleep and early returns beat cramming in both training and teaching
open.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
*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.
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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
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
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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
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
Education Doesn't Work 3.0
a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps
open.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Education Doesn't Work 3.0
a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps
open.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Can persistence and openness reduce inequality in schools? A little bit theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/09/05/c...
Can persistence and openness reduce inequality in schools? A little bit
Delve into the connection between non-cognitive skills and educational inequality. Can personality traits shape school success?
theeconomyofmeaning.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Can persistence and openness reduce inequality in schools? A little bit theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/09/05/c...
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I can imagine similar displays of sincerity in Russia and China.
How did we get here?
How did we get here?
Tech leaders heap praise on Trump during White House dinner | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I can imagine similar displays of sincerity in Russia and China.
How did we get here?
How did we get here?
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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...
Is embracing AI intellectual or anti-intellectual ?
Where does belonging belong?
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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...
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*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...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...
August 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
*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...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...
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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.
August 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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.
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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.
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.
August 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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.
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
Are we living in a stupidogenic society?
The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise
open.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise” - @daisychristo.bsky.social
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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-...
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-...
August 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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-...
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-...
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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...
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...
Why beliefs about free will matter in education
After a short break, It’s Your Time You’re Wasting is back!
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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...
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...
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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-...
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-...
August 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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-...
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.”
“…pivot back towards fossil fuels in a bid to revive its share price.”
BP offloads US onshore wind business as it pivots back to oil https://on.ft.com/46PrBwR
BP offloads US onshore wind business as it pivots back to oil
Sale to LS Power is part of plan to generate $20bn from divestments
on.ft.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The definition of insanity?
“…pivot back towards fossil fuels in a bid to revive its share price.”
“…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
Do you see circles or rectangles? How culturally dependent is perceptual experience? Inspired by two recent studies, I wrote this for today's @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth
We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“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...
- 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...
The Myth of Automated Learning
AI's real threat to education.
www.newcartographies.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
“…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...
- 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...