@edtechprof.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Associate Professor Learning Sciences; Faculty of Education; McGill University (he/him). Educational tech/games + math cog mcgill.ca/tlc
That is equal parts cool and terrifying.
03.12.2025 21:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My provincial government is banning prayer in public.
Nobody wants this. It doesn’t matter that we don’t want it.
Canadians don’t have rights. Fight!
Not withstanding clause has to go.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Link to podcast was broken. Here it is. www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
25.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Link to podcast was broken. Here it is. www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
25.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Despite LLMs not really being intelligent, tech companies push them into education.
Can a system that does not think teach? Only if you think teaching = speaking.
Read the piece & listen to the podcast with @reckless.bsky.social & educators
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
Despite LLMs not really being intelligent, tech companies push them into education.
Can a system that does not think teach? Only if you think teaching = speaking.
Read the piece & listen to the podcast with teacher
and researcher perspectives.
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
Despite LLMs not really being intelligent, tech companies push them into education.
Can a system that does not think teach? Only if you think teaching = speaking.
Read the piece & listen to the podcast with teachers
and researcher perspectives.
www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
25.11.2025 13:54 — 👍 1445 🔁 486 💬 56 📌 110Great piece @reckless.bsky.social
“the most obvious outcome is nothing more than a common-sense repository. . .AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But . . . It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data . . . a dead-metaphor machine.”
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
🎮 New on Channel 3 (ABC KEYT) this Wednesday at 6pm PST:
A new UCSB study finds that video game addiction in teens often stems from underlying mental health issues — not the games themselves. #gamingdisorder #mentalheath #videogames
Resharing our great paper on how teachers support game-based learning.
Teachers are 🔑
🤖 🧠 How are students using AI to get ahead in school? You'd be surprised by what the research shows! Professor Adam Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social was interviewed on an episode of the Decoder podcast called "How AI is Fueling an Existential Crisis in Education": mcgill.ca/x/iCL #AIinEducation
21.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hehe. Fun. But, does it replicate when Batman enters the lab?
22.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Update. Wrote editor. They said it will not be considered because of private discussion with action editor. No reason. Not sure how that is peer review.
20.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You bet I am!
20.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I seriously mean there were NO negative comments that warranted rejection. Reviews were concise. Praised the work. Made a few suggested changes about writing. Minor revisions, Max.
Vibe Editing =\= Science
Dear Journal editors, read the £@€¥ reviews!
Student MS rejected after 2 very positive evals: work was a fit, methodology and theoretically strong.
Only suggested minor editing: remove repeated definitions, move structural validity evidence from appendix to ms.
Rejected.
WTF?
From OpenAI website: Can ChatGPT help with differentiated instruction? Yes. ChatGPT can adapt lesson plans and materials to different learning levels and styles based on your prompts and saved preferences. (Learning styles has been tested time and again and shown to be an ineffective approach for teaching and learning.)
Hey everyone, OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT for Teachers" today. Do they remain committed to promoting a pedagogical vision that is at odds with our best understanding of how kids learn? But of course!
("Learning styles" is not a thing, I promise you)
front page of the article, journal, title, authors, URL. Effects on nonverbal numerical acuity performance after a single-session transient random noise stimulation over the intraparietal sulcus or dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
Hello #tRNS lovers: 🧠
Ó Dúinín, E., Steopan J., Kessler, K., Santos, FH. Sci Rep 15, 37977 (2025)
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Congrats to Dr. Robin Sharma!
He defended his dissertation on “Designing and Testing the Effectiveness of Digital Games to Develop Adolescents’ Understanding of Mathematics."
His work with UNESCO, Ubisoft, and Vretta leads the way in game-based learning!!
tlclab.owlstown.net/posts/4776-d...
What happens when you interview 700 teenagers about how they actually navigate their online and offline worlds? You learn so, so much about the reality of their lived experiences. This report is riveting from start to finish, and whether you live in England or not.
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Risks of gaming are only for excessive use
13.11.2025 22:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great advice!
13.11.2025 22:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Good aspects of games also discussed
13.11.2025 22:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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As an avid gamer, I don’t like the outcome of games leading to socioemotional problems for kids
As a researcher, we have to go where the evidence takes us.
Will have to dig into this more.
@jeffcannata.bsky.social
100 postdoc positions!
Hope @mcgill.ca has a similar announcement soon!
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