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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 22d

How Technology Is Making Us Stupid an interview with @daisychristo.bsky.social

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New Podcast: Daisy Christodoulou on How Technology Is Making Us Stupid

Podcast Episode · The Ruffian · 2025-09-18 · 48m

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 25d

“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”

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 28d

*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

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Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Sep 10

All crimes?
Violent crimes, robbery…how about white collar crimes?
Would GW Bush, Cheney the US, invading Iraq be considered a crime?

Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Sep 9

@thebandb.bsky.social thoughts on this article?
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Education Doesn't Work 3.0

a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Sep 9

@schewpsych.bsky.social
Thoughts on this article?
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Education Doesn't Work 3.0

a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps

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Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb.bsky.social · Sep 5

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?

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Sep 5

“...American cognitive psychologist Barbara Oakley…”
Isn’t professor Oakley an engineer?

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 5

From @wired.com is spot on:

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Sep 5

I can imagine similar displays of sincerity in Russia and China.
How did we get here?

Tech leaders heap praise on Trump during White House dinner | REUTERS

YouTube video by Reuters

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Jun 17

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?

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · Aug 30

*NEW* Round-up of research on learning - latest evidence on phone bans, practice testing, belonging, digital reading, absenteeism, AI feedback, and more. ⬇️
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Aug 29

Convincing arguments...
News misleads.
News is irrelevant.
News has no explanatory power.
News is toxic to your body.
News increases cognitive errors.
News inhibits thinking.
News works like a drug.
News wastes time.
News makes us passive.
News kills creativity.

www.theguardian.com/media/2013/a...

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier

News is bad for you. It leads to fear and aggression. It hinders your creativity and makes you sick. We should stop consuming it, says Rolf Dobelli, who's abstained for years

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Aug 27

Why did they use 4o-mini?

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Aug 26

How about the harm caused alcohol, gambling, cars, cigarettes, unhealthy fast food…
Is banning the solution?

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Aug 26

Perhaps like opera, classical music, jazz, theatre, museums…reading books, will become, has become, perhaps always was, a “luxury activity”?

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Aug 24

“The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise” - @daisychristo.bsky.social

Are we living in a stupidogenic society?

The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Aug 21

Interesting
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Aug 21

Give them (e-)books, and they will read!

Research by Anger et al: giving children from low-income households an e-reader and suitable books improved academic performance by 10.3% SD after 1 year, persisting at 9.6% SD 30 months on:

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · Aug 21

⏳There are just so many hours in a day, something has to give.

“Displacement theory suggests that increasing time and attention spent on other forms of media (e.g., digital media and social media) may replace reading for personal interest!”
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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · Aug 2

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.
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Why beliefs about free will matter in education

After a short break, It’s Your Time You’re Wasting is back!

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Aug 4

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.

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