Efficient learning is analogous to efficient weight training: at the end of the day, you’ve got to lift the heavy things. I’m all for using AI to help us learn better, but let’s make sure we’re not just shilling the cognitive version of the ab belt.

When you experience pain and suffering, it’s an opportunity to bring it with you into the classroom and model honesty and vulnerability with your students. It’s one of the many aspects of the human teacher that AI can never replace.

I finally figured out what those “baby in car” bumper stickers are all about. It’s just a euphemism for “sleep deprived parent at the wheel.”

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We live in Altadena. Perhaps you've seen our town on the news. It's not been a good week. Despite it all I’m resting in God’s goodness for me, my family, and my neighbors. I know that he has a plan for us despite the pain and suffering and that he’s big enough to hold our anger too. This week I processed it all the way I know best, by sitting down at the keyboard and writing, first and foremost as a reminder to myself.

RT @ClausWilke: I have now also ported the color vision deficiency simulation app to Shiny live. Advantage is this runs entirely in your br…

@ClausWilke This is amazing, Claus. Huge Quarto fan because of you and am also working on porting more and more course materials to it. A super awesome tool.

RT @trbrtc: Thread with satellite imagery of the California wildfires.

@trbrtc Thanks so much, Christiaan.

@jkaskanian If you don’t mind, could you share where this is? Trying to get some info about the tippy top north end of Fair Oaks on Purple Sage Lane. Any intel on that area? Thanks in advance.

What technology can do is only a small part of the story. The much bigger question is how as a society and as individuals we respond.

100% this. Also: I’m sure I’m late to the party here, but webhooks in Shortcuts rock. Very easy to stitch things together. My latest hacking hobby is Shortcuts + @n8n_io + @nocodb.

@johndyer Enjoyed reading this!

To understand AI and its potential in education (both positive and negative) we’ve got to be clear-eyed that our patterns of behavior and the values that are upstream of them are being intentionally manipulated. We’re living in a Skinner box. Let’s pay attention to that fact.

So much of ed tech fails at the problem definition point of the design process. Right answer to the wrong problem. MOOCs are a great example. It turns out that access to world-class content is not sufficient for effective learning for most students. Claus’s point here about human interaction will be increasingly clear as we see the dream of the personalized AI tutors run around on many of the same icebergs that scuttled MOOCs.

@Brehove Yes, it’s a brilliant definition and one of my favorites too. His podcast with Sean Carroll earlier this year was very good.

A simple, eye-opening question I'm asking a lot these days: to what problem is <insert AI tool here> the solution?