Asa Jomard

Metacognition as Power: Who Gets to Shape How AI Shapes Our Thinking? When our tools start thinking with us, the real question is who’s still doing the thinking.

Metacognition as Power: Who Gets to Shape How AI Shapes Our Thinking?
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From Consumers to Creators: Using Nature’s Rhythms to Build Imaginative Intelligence Every seed holds a secret: it grows not through force, but through the quiet patience of its surroundings. In the forest, stillness is not absence — it is presence. Beneath the hush of winter snow,…

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The Fire Beetle Sees What’s Coming: Adaptive Teaching in the Age of AI A practical guide for educators to blend biomimicry, AI literacy, and climate resilience in the classroom. While most creatures flee from wildfire, the Australian fire beetle races toward it. This …

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Learning from Living Systems: Four More Nature-Inspired Climate Assignments for the Age of Connection In nature, life learns and adapts through relationships – every living system is shaped by its interactions with others and the world around it. A forest exchanges knowledge underground throu…

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Stop Trying to Block AI. Design Better Assignments Instead. We spend too much time worrying about whether students are using AI – and not enough time asking why our assignments are so easily replaced by it. If ChatGPT, Claude, Aria, or Google Gemini c…

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AskNature Chat – Creating a Story and Resource about Fire for Children I have now tried the AskNature Chat! This blog post is inspired by the results. This is the first prompt that I tested, and the ideas evolved over a couple of days. About AskNature Chat “Guid…

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Beyond the Black Box: Rebuilding Trust in the Age of Artificial Intelligence In a world of intelligent machines and collapsing certainties, trust may be the last truly human technology.

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How to Use AI to Discover Amazing Patterns That Could Change the World Artificial Intelligence is like having a research assistant who never gets tired, it can sift through mountains of information in seconds. But just like a detective, it only finds the best clues if…

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Mind Mapping for Children: Strategies to Boost Creativity and Understanding Mind mapping helps children move beyond memorisation and into meaningful learning. By organising ideas visually, mind maps boost creativity, strengthen memory, and make complex concepts easier to u…

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Developing Exceptional Memory – Why Schools Fail to Teach the Most Important Skill “Memory is the residue of thought.” – Daniel T. Willingham Here’s a troubling paradox: we spend twelve years in formal education, yet most schools never teach students how t…

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How to Be a Super Smart Learner with AI: Why Thinking About Your Thinking Makes You Amazing! Justin Sung, a learning coach, spent 4-5 hours testing ChatGPT’s new Study Mode and found something interesting. When used passively, Study Mode was actually slower than just reading a book t…

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Thinking About Thinking: Why Metacognition Matters in the Age of AI AI is everywhere now, drafting emails, summarising articles, offering ideas, and auto-completing code. As these systems grow more capable, one might imagine we’ll lean on them more and think …

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AI AND EMOTIONS: WHY ARE PEOPLE SCARED OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Artificial intelligence has moved from academic labs into daily life - from predictive text and fraud detection to autonomous systems and generative models.

Artificial intelligence has moved from academic labs into daily life - from predictive text and fraud detection to autonomous systems and generative models. Yet alongside rapid adoption, there is widespread unease.

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AI AND TRUST: HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN TO RELY ON ALGORITHMS? Artificial intelligence has become a pervasive decision partner — recommending what we read, routing our travel, screening CVs, and even assisting in medical diagnoses.

Artificial intelligence has become a pervasive decision partner — recommending what we read, routing our travel, screening CVs, and even assisting in medical diagnoses. Yet trust in AI is uneven.

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AI AND IMAGINATION: BEYOND DATA AND INTO INFINITE POSSIBILITIES Imagination is often described as humanity’s most distinctive cognitive trait.

Imagination is often described as humanity’s most distinctive cognitive trait. It allows us to picture alternatives, simulate outcomes, and invent possibilities unconstrained by immediate reality.

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The Creative Machine: How AI Challenges Our Understanding of Creative Thinking Through Lateral Thinking, Flow and Wonder The rise of artificial intelligence as a creative collaborator has ignited debate about the nature of creativity itself.

As AI systems generate poetry, compose music, and create visual art with increasing sophistication, we are pushed to question long-held assumptions about human uniqueness in creative work.

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The Octopus's Lesson Why Wonder and Curiosity Are Enough

What if the most powerful engine for learning is not a curriculum, a classroom, or a test, but pure curiosity? A young octopus reminds us that the best learning happens when wonder leads the way.

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How Patterns in Nature Inspire Designers Happy New Year! Imagine 2024 buzzing with ideas for exciting designs, inventions, and ways to solve problems. Using nature as inspiration for projects in your classroom can engage children and spar…

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Can AI Be Playful? Rethinking Machines, Motivation, and Creativity This is the second in a series exploring how artificial intelligence intersects with traits we usually consider uniquely human - emotions, play, curiosity, imagination, and trust.

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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Robots: How Prehistoric Plants Could Revolutionise Growing Robotics When we look at robots today, we often imagine shiny metal machines with wheels or arms. But what if a robot could grow like a plant? Scientists are now making “growing robots” that build themselve…

Ancient Wisdom and Modern Robots: How Prehistoric Plants Could Revolutionise Growing Robotics

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What If Our Cities Copied Nature’s Solutions?

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Nature’s Heart Surgeon: What Giraffes Teach Us About Medical Innovation

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Nature, AI, and Raising Young Innovators: Ceane’s Infinite AI Adventure Meets Biomimicry

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How Biomimicry Can Be Used to Address Climate Change

What if the answers to our biggest climate challenges have already been solved by nature? In this post, we’ll explore how biomimicry is helping to create innovative climate solutions.

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Climate Change, Adaptation, and the Truth: How Nature and Intelligence Evolve

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AI Use Values Statement -Building Ethical Frameworks for a Smarter Future

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What Nature Can Teach Us About Greener AI

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Unleash the Inner Inventor This Summer! – Hope, Creative AI Prompting & Biomimicry

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Tech Meets Nature: Can AI Spark a Love for Science? A Bat in the Urban Garden The bat appeared out of nowhere. A sudden, fleeting shadow against the fading light of dusk. In the heart of the urban garden, this glimpse was a unique window into the hi…

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AI as your Biomimicry Brainstorming Partner I am a curious person, and I believe it is important to continue to learn new things. So, I have spent part of this weekend learning to prompt AI. I have now completed the course “Use AI as a…

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