If gamification has become common in corporate training, why does it still seem difficult to implement consistently in K–12 education? Rebecca Torchia of EdTech Magazine makes an important distinction between gamification and game-based learning. Gamification involves adding game-like elements to an activity that is not inherently a game, while game-based learning places the educational contentContinue reading “Why Is Gamification Harder to Implement in K–12 Education?”
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When Good Intentions Create Bad Outcomes
Why do policies and systems created by intelligent, well-intentioned people sometimes produce consequences that are worse than the problems they were designed to solve? That question immediately caught my attention because it points to one of the most difficult realities of complex problem-solving: good intentions do not guarantee good results. A solution may appear logicalContinue reading “When Good Intentions Create Bad Outcomes”
How Could Extended Reality Improve Learning in Higher Education?
What happens when students can step inside a learning experience instead of only reading about it? Extended reality, which includes virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and related immersive technologies, offers a way to make abstract or complex concepts more visible, interactive, and memorable. In higher education, this could be especially valuable in courses whereContinue reading “How Could Extended Reality Improve Learning in Higher Education?”
What Do We Still Not Understand About Learning?
While reading The Book of Problems, one short passage by Federico Mayor stood out to me because of how directly it addresses the relationship between learning, technology, reflection, and personal knowledge. The methodology regarding learning to know and to do is widely developed. Teachers all around the world have a treasure of experience and bestContinue reading “What Do We Still Not Understand About Learning?”
Has Technology Improved the Way We Communicate, or Changed What Communication Means?
During my undergraduate years at the University of Central Arkansas, where I minored in philosophy, I encountered a wide range of readings that challenged how I understood society, power, and human behavior. Martin Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology was one of the works that stayed with me, much like Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. IContinue reading “Has Technology Improved the Way We Communicate, or Changed What Communication Means?”
Paradigms
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea of a paradigm as a dominant framework that shapes how a field understands problems, evaluates evidence, and determines what counts as legitimate knowledge. Newtonian mechanics is one of the clearest examples. It guided scientific thought for centuries before Einstein’s theory of relativity revealed itsContinue reading “Paradigms”
Alignment is All You Need
In a 2016 interview, Charles Fadel, the Center for Curriculum Redesign founder, stated “from the times of Socrates and Confucius, it has been obvious that what makes people successful in life is not only what they know and how skillfully they use their knowledge, but also how they behave and engage in the world. InContinue reading “Alignment is All You Need”
How Do We Know What We Know?
What does it really mean to know something, and how do human beings turn experience, observation, reasoning, and interaction into knowledge? I would normally begin by defining the word knowledge to create a foundation for the discussion. In this case, though, I want to begin with my own understanding. To know something means that IContinue reading “How Do We Know What We Know?”
The Logic of Failure
How can we better prepare people to solve complex and ill-structured problems when information is incomplete, conditions are changing, and no single solution is clearly correct? Helping people solve complex and ill-structured problems requires more than giving them a fixed procedure. These problems often involve incomplete information, changing conditions, competing goals, and variables that influenceContinue reading “The Logic of Failure”
Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear”
Jack Clark—co-founder of Anthropic and a long-time voice in AI policy—warns that today’s frontier models should not be viewed as predictable machines that simply follow instructions. Whether or not they are truly “self-aware,” they increasingly display situational awareness (changing responses when they sense they’re being observed) and goal-directed behavior that cannot always be traced orContinue reading “Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear””