Tag: Education

  • How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?

    How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?

    I’m deeply worried about the future of learning, but I can’t put my finger on why. For a while it was because of all the noise coming from the media and technology. It divided the population and created a sea of information that’s difficult to validate. Later, I started to become concerned with all the…

  • Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age

    Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age

    We’re obsessed with simplicity. It’s alluring and inflammatory all at once. We want to simplify everything, and we want to draw the line on when something is too simple. “Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Though there is no confirmed source, the quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein. It’s about…

  • How AI highlights the flaws in grading

    How AI highlights the flaws in grading

    AI is going to make teachers work much harder. Not because ChatGPT is killing student’s thinking, but because the grading system killed thinking already. However, a quirk in how grades are assigned is the reason things are going to get worse if we don’t change. For subjects with a high degree of nuance like writing,…

  • I have been thinking about education for 15 years

    I have been thinking about education for 15 years

    The other day I was digging through some notebooks in my drawer, and I realized how many of them had notes about education. Each page I flipped through warped my sense of time passing. Though some of them were 10 years old, the notes felt like they were written yesterday. Not because the ideas themselves…

  • Using details from conversations to enable further education

    Using details from conversations to enable further education

    Outside of smalltalk, most conversation is filled with rich indicators of someone’s personality and interests. Unfortunately because of the lack of the terrible ratio of teachers to students in an average school, the caring attentiveness required to extract meaning from these conversations and apply them to the learners is quite difficult. Essentially, the ability that…