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AI’s impacts on learning

The one-handed economist Sometimes you just want the answer David Zetland “AI’s impacts on learning“ AI is changing nearly everything digital around us, for better (search; analysis) and for worse (cybercrime), but its impacts on education are, I think, much larger than many people understand. Learning is more about process than output. I wrote this […]

No evidence to back idea of learning styles

On Sunday, the Guardian published a letter signed by a number of prominent psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists and the like. Coincidentally, the list includes Steven Pinker who I happened to be quoting in a post from the same day. Here’s the title: No evidence to back idea of learning styles Here are the first two paragraphs: […]