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Teacher, robotics coach & occasional blogger. Optimist & incremental revolutionary. Introvert. Idealist. I enjoy audiobooks, long gravel rides, travel & coffee. Wabi-sabi proponent.

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Let Your Kids Fail Early exposure to setbacks can help children confront later disappointments without falling apart.

Let Your Kids Fail www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

05.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Life Advice That Sounds Good But Will Destroy You
YouTube video by Daniel Pink Life Advice That Sounds Good But Will Destroy You

Pondering this: Life Advice That Sounds Good But Will Destroy You www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiz2...

28.01.2026 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The real cost of phone bans. By Jack Ballard Teenagers in the United States and across the world have a phone problem. In 2023, more than 50% of teens in the U.S. spent 4 hours a day or more on social media, per Gallup. That’s m...

Food for thought: The real cost of phone bans #EduSky www.readtangle.com/otherposts/t...

12.01.2026 04:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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AI Isn't Killing Education Personal Perspective: AI doesn’t crush education, it reveals how brittle its rituals have become.

“What AI actually breaks is a Pavlovian model of education that has dominated for more than a century. The bell, the assignment, the paper, the grade, the credential—each step designed to translate effort into a visible signal.” #EduSky #AIEdu www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

15.12.2025 03:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On Brainrot The conservative commentator Erick-Woods Erickson observed on his Substack this week that Twitter has now convinced large swaths of the American right that Europe has been completely overrun by Muslim...

On brainrot: “… something fundamental broke in how human beings process information, form beliefs, and engage with reality. We became a global fragmentation of doom scrolling, context-lacking, uncurious, blindly accepting, regurgitating masses.” flip.it/VlATKV

09.12.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Art of Effortless Action: Achieving More by Doing Less Pushing for success often pushes it away. Discover the "art of effortless action" and how finding joy in the process can actually lead to your greatest achievements.

Thinking on this: The Art of Effortless Action: Achieving More by Doing Less. flip.it/EccqHw

09.12.2025 17:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Can Revolutionize Education, but Not in the Way We Think The more we can enlist students in taking charge of their education, the more they can make decisions about when AI can be helpful in their own growth.

“The more we can enlist students in taking charge of their education, the more they will be able to make decisions about when, how, and under what circumstances AI can be helpful in their own growth.” #EduSky #AIEdu www.nextgenlearning.org/articles/ai-...

02.12.2025 12:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

A really interesting read from a different perspective:
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys - time.com/7335723/auto... #EduSky

27.11.2025 05:14 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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My Students Use AI. So What? Young people are reading less and relying on bots, but there are other ways to teach people how to think.

“It seems wrongheaded to feel wistful for a time when students had far less information at their fingertips. And who can blame them for letting AI do much of the work that they are likely to let AI do anyway when they enter the real world?” #AIEdu #EduSky www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

24.10.2025 08:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI is Not Pedagogy: The Human in the Room Matters Gist: Examining why artificial intelligence, despite its considerable capabilities, cannot replace the pedagogical expertise and relational work of teachers.

Why conflating technological tools with teaching practice reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what education actually is.
#AIEdu #EduSky readysaltedcode.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-...

22.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Critical Thinking Explained Introducing some key challenges and solutions in teaching critical thinking

The first in a series. I actually like this one:
“Critical thinking is the art of analysing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it.” Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2002) #EduSky #philosophy #criticalthinking #education

peterellerton.substack.com/p/critical-t...

13.10.2025 03:45 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What is critical thinking? After thinking critically about this for around 20 years, the simple answer is “Evaluating with curiosity”.

What is critical thinking? jesserichardson78.medium.com/what-is-crit...

10.10.2025 03:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There’s a quiet crisis in our schools At the heart of every successful school is a thoughtfully designed educational journey, supported by a respectful partnership between school and home

“An essential part of any educational journey is the gradual development of self-competence, an independent work ethic, personal discipline and accountability. These are not innate traits, but learned habits; muscles strengthened through consistent effort…” mg.co.za/thought-lead... #EduSky

02.10.2025 03:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Confused? I hope so. I’ve been spending time in lessons this week – just dropping in and out of classes for a few minutes. It’s good to see what’s happening in the various areas, to talk to students about how they are fin...

A little confusion can prompt students to think harder and improve their understanding of complex matters, even if it’s a bit uncomfortable for them. #EduSky #Teaching #Learning
www.linkedin.com/pulse/confus...

10.09.2025 08:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.

Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI chatbots, to see if there was anything they could do to stop social media from turning into echo chambers. And to stop polarizing content from becoming the most popular futurism.com/social-netwo...

01.09.2025 05:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Beyond the loop: Reclaiming pedagogy in an AI age. Rethinking 'human-in-the-loop' design logic reveals the need to reassert pedagogy as the foundation of education #EduSky #AIEdu www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

24.08.2025 16:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
| Community | CGScholar

In The Ends of Tests, Cope, Kalantzis, and Saini propose a transformative vision for education in the era of Generative AI. cgscholar.com/community/co... #Edusky #AIEdu

16.08.2025 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond the Tool: Why True AI Literacy is About Critical Thinking, Not Prompting How to cultivate a critical, cultural, and human-centered approach to AI in the classroom.

Beyond the Tool: Why True AI Literacy is About Critical Thinking, Not Prompting www.theaugmentededucator.com/p/beyond-the... #EduSky #AIEdu

16.08.2025 13:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A comprehensive guide to Systems Thinking Systems Thinking represents a fundamental shift in how complex problems are approached, moving beyond traditional reductionist analysis to…

A comprehensive guide to Systems Thinking. uxdesign.cc/a-comprehens...

09.08.2025 04:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Are We Really Measuring Success for Students? If the traditional report card is our only guide, we are in serious trouble

A great read: The Real Report Card: 10 Questions for the AI Age #EduSky #AIEdu open.substack.com/pub/jcasap/p...

06.08.2025 03:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The best way to 'dumb down' a curriculum? Cram it full of content. Content is not king. Thinking is just as important.

The best way to 'dumb down' a curriculum? Cram it full of content. Content is not king. Thinking is just as important. peterellerton.substack.com/p/the-best-w... #EduSky #AIEdu

30.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Your Teen Says Her Best Friend Is AI. What Next? A new study shows that over half of teens are regular users of AI companions — and some prefer them to their human friends.

Definitely a growing trend: A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends #EduSky #AIEdu futurism.com/teens-ai-fri...

21.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How ChatGPT Broke My Brain (And Why I Still Use It Every Day) The danger isn’t AI replacing us—it’s AI eroding our capacity for deep, sustained human thinking, tempting us away from uniquely human work.

Interesting read www.forbes.com/sites/curtst...

26.06.2025 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters In life, we all use Google and cellphones to get information, says Ira Socol. Why shouldn’t students do the same?

Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters

In life, we all use Google and cellphones to get information, says Ira Socol. Why shouldn’t students do the same? #EduSky #AIEdu www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/0...

11.06.2025 04:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Boredom Is Good for You: Why Embracing It Calms the Brain - Neuroscience News Boredom, often seen as a negative state to avoid, may actually serve an important role in emotional regulation and brain health.

When we’re bored, the brain shifts away from external attention networks and activates introspective systems like the default mode network, encouraging creativity and self-reflection. neurosciencenews.com/boredom-over...

27.05.2025 06:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Our Phones Throw Stones: Rethinking the “Stolen Work” Critique of Generative AI Debating model training is worthwhile, but confining our outrage to that arena lets us off the hook for the cobalt in our phones, the child labor in our wardrobes, and the radioactive dust...

When Our Phones Throw Stones: Rethinking the “Stolen Work” Critique of Generative AI #EduSky #AIEdu stefanbauschard.substack.com/p/when-our-p...

27.05.2025 03:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | A.I. Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12

Opinion piece from the NY Times #EduSky #AIEdu www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

18.05.2025 04:36 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI | Cult of Pedagogy Clear, practical strategies for helping students use AI responsibly and maintain academic integrity.

Essential reading www.cultofpedagogy.com/ai-integrity/ #EduSky #AIEdu #AI

12.05.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Model collapse': Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail | TechCrunch If the models continue eating each other's data, perhaps without even knowing it, they'll progressively get weirder and dumber until they collapse.

#TIL about ‘Model Collapse’ #AI techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/m...

30.04.2025 05:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Boys Face Unique Challenges. Here’s How to Help Them Thrive | KQED Ruth Whippman, author of BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity, shares three ways to better support young boys in a changing world.

Boys Face Unique Challenges. Here’s How to Help Them Thrive www.kqed.org/mindshift/65...

29.04.2025 12:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0